# Central Engineering Finance & Strategy

**Company**: Stripe
**Location**: Remote US, SF, SEA, NYC, CHI
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Description

We're looking for a Finance & Strategy Partner to join our growing team. This individual will help us with the forecasting, budgeting and reporting for AI investments, including token spend, engineering headcount, and management tools.

## Responsibilities

- Partner closely with business leaders to drive successful outcomes

- Leverage your financial background to support and influence key strategic and business decisions

- Be your business teams' financial partner for analysis and evaluation of strategic projects and initiatives (e.g. foundational investments or business model shifts)

- Design and provide analytical rigor to measure efficiency and ROI of investments in headcount and non-headcount expenses

- Drive reporting, process and discipline for finance routines to shape and influence decision-making (e.g. budget, forecast, monthly reviews, long-range plans)

- Build and own models for in-depth analyses, as well as ensure their quality, timeliness, and accuracy

- Define metrics and leading indicators of business performance

- Partner with cross functional teams, such as Finance Systems, Data Science, and Infrastructure Engineering to develop reporting dashboards

- Drive continuous process improvement, standardization, simplification and reporting enhancements.

## Requirements

- 7-9 years of relevant experience in strategic finance or FP&A

- Demonstrated experience driving and executing on finance processes (e.g. budget and forecast creation, contract negotiations, headcount envelope management)

- Demonstrated experience using AI tools (coding agents, skills, forecasting tools) to develop data visualizations and explore datasets and developing expertise in new tools quickly

- Fluency in AI cost drivers and metrics, including token caching/reads/writes, model selection principles, and billing frameworks

- Deep understanding of expense accounting principles including accruals, amortization, and capitalization

- Ability to manage cross-functional programs, using influence without authority to manage non-financial deliverables from partner teams

- Ability to build strong, collaborative relationships with business partners and cross-functional stakeholders

- Highly proactive, able to anticipate and execute critical analyses independently and drive business results without significant supervision

- Ability to deliver results under tight timelines and a 'roll up your sleeves' mindset to get any job done

- Bring structure to ambiguous questions and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment

- Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience working in corporate finance at a high-growth technology company

- Experience managing headcount and operating expenses

- Experience supporting engineering teams

- Experience with Oracle, Anaplan, or similar financial management applications

- Experience with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or similar coding agents

- Experience in data visualization and dashboarding

- Background in investment banking, private equity, corporate development, and/or consulting

- Strong knowledge of G-suite tools and extracting, analyzing and evaluating information from large data sets using SQL and large language models

## Skills

### Required
- AI tools
- financial management
- data visualization
- SQL
- large language models
- G-suite tools
- Oracle
- Anaplan
- Claude Code
- Codex
- Cursor

### Nice to have
- corporate finance
- headcount management
- operating expenses
- engineering team support
- investment banking
- private equity
- corporate development
- consulting

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