Accounting Manager - LEC

Join Stripe's Finance team as an Accounting Manager, where you will lead the fast-growing International Accounting team within our Stripe Delivery Center (SDC). You will supervise and evaluate all Legal entity controllership processes, implement new systems and tools, and manage the monthly close, statistical reporting, compliances, and audits of all international subsidiaries and branches.

Responsibilities:

• Build, develop, and lead a team that drives International Accounting Controllership function based out of SDC.
• Perform and drive monthly/quarterly close activities, including manual journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, variance analyses, and analytical reviews.
• Identify potential inefficiencies in existing processes and propose improvements.
• Partner with Billing, Internal Systems, Treasury, Tax, and/or Legal to investigate issues that arise during reporting cycles.
• Define and execute efficient internal control documentation and sign-off procedures, including country-prescribed regulatory frameworks (ICFR, SOX, GFS, etc).
• Enhance and maintain existing accounting policy and procedural documentation.
• Drive end-to-end improvement of input processes to enable scale and productivity.
• Develop, manage, and improve process metrics utilizing automation, lean practices, and process optimization to scale.
• Create global best practice documentation and facilitate sharing across the globe.
• Create a culture consistent with Stripe Operating and Leadership principles and an inspiring work environment that brings the best out of people at work.
• Provide robust feedback on process health and performance, identifying and remediating errors and delivering scale over time.
• Lead cross-functional projects and reporting that drive performance improvement, visibility, and automation throughout financial services.

Requirements:

• Demonstrated knowledge of key business financial metrics, providing metrics inputs to various reporting venues, and communicating key performance indicators to stakeholders in support of business objectives.
• Advanced finance operations experience of leading large operational processes.
• Ability to set goals, financial plans, and effectively influence leaders across Stripe.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in building and scaling new teams from zero.
• Strong operational background, including new process launch, service delivery in a high-growth technology company.
• Experience with written and verbal communications for both technical and non-technical audiences at the senior leadership level.
• Proficient in obtaining, organizing, and analyzing data to challenge conventional wisdom, make fact-based decisions, and drive root cause analysis, and evaluate outcomes.