About the team

The Accounting Team is responsible for understanding and telling Stripe’s financial story and shaping our collective understanding of how Stripe is performing as a business. Our primary focus is maintaining a well-controlled environment that effectively supports corporate governance, financial reporting and disclosure requirements. We advise and enable Stripe to grow. We operate in a fast-paced environment and collaborate significantly with cross-functional and international teams.

• What you’ll do

In this role you will support all aspects of our financial reporting, leveraging your technical expertise with US GAAP to quickly identify accounting and reporting implications and impacts to our cross-functional stakeholders. In addition, you will support our internal and statutory reporting processes, cross-functional initiatives, and internal control environment.

• Drive accurate and timely financial reporting for our consolidated and US regulated entities
• Support external audit processes and statutory reporting
• Produce internal management analyses and reporting
• Build scalable accounting and reporting processes to support global growth
• Identify, recommend, and implement process and automation improvements and collaborate on special projects
• Plan and perform monthly and quarterly close activities, including journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, variance analyses, financial reporting deliverables, and analytical reviews
• Partner with teams such as Internal Systems, Finance and Strategy, Treasury, Investor Relations, Tax, and Legal to determine and operationalize the accounting and reporting implications of new business initiatives and transactions
• Design, implement, and execute efficient internal control procedures
• Who you are
• We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
• 7+ years of relevant public accounting and/or industry experience
• B.A. or B.S degree in Accounting or Finance (CPA strongly preferred)
• Expertise in U.S. GAAP and financial reporting requirements
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal
• Strong knowledge of Excel
• Demonstrated experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders
• Experience with internal controls (design, implementation and execution)
• Demonstrated history of taking on various types of challenging projects and producing results
• Solution-oriented mindset with enthusiasm for establishing best practices
• Strong attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy
• Knowledge of (or experience in) the technology or payments industry

Experience with Workiva and Oracle