# Equity and Reporting Accountant

**Company**: Stripe
**Location**: San Francisco, Seattle
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Stripe is seeking an Accounting leader to join its world-class Accounting team and help scale for the future in a fast-paced environment that's growing rapidly.

The Accounting Team at Stripe is responsible for understanding and telling Stripe's financial story and shaping the collective understanding of how Stripe is performing as a business. The primary focus is maintaining a well-controlled environment that effectively supports corporate governance, financial reporting, and disclosure requirements.

In this role, you will support all aspects of equity programs, leveraging technical expertise with US GAAP to quickly identify accounting implications and impacts on cross-functional stakeholders. Additionally, you will support financial, regulatory, and internal reporting processes, financial systems, and related internal controls.

Responsibilities:

- Build scalable accounting processes to support global growth

- Identify, recommend, and implement process and automation improvements, including the use of artificial intelligence

- Plan and perform monthly and quarterly close activities, including journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, variance analyses, financial reporting deliverables, and analytical reviews with a focus on Equity and Stock-Based Compensation

- Produce internal management analyses and reporting

- Support external audit processes

- Partner with teams such as Internal Systems, Finance and Strategy, Treasury, Global Equity Management, Tax, and Legal to determine and operationalize the accounting implications of new business initiatives and transactions

- Research and prepare technical accounting documentation with a focus on Equity (ASC 505) and Stock-Based Compensation (ASC 718)

- Design, implement, and execute efficient internal control procedures

- Develop and maintain accounting policies and procedural documentation

Requirements:

- 7+ years of relevant public accounting and/or industry experience

- B.A. or B.S degree in Accounting or Finance (CPA strongly preferred)

- Fluency in U.S. GAAP and ability to research complex accounting issues

- 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 high degree of accuracy

Preferred qualifications:

- Knowledge of (or experience in) the technology or payments industry

- Experience with Oracle, Shareworks, and/or Workiva

## Skills

### Required
- US GAAP
- Accounting
- Financial Reporting
- Internal Controls
- Excel
- Communication
- Organizational Skills

### Nice to have
- Oracle
- Shareworks
- Workiva
- Technology
- Payments Industry

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