Description
Stripe is seeking an experienced accountant to join its world-class accounting team and help scale for the future in a fast-paced, rapidly growing environment.
The Stripe Product Accounting Team supports all products at Stripe, consulting on accounting implications and enabling teams to make informed strategic decisions. The team is responsible for accurately and timely recording business-generated transactions on the balance sheet and income statement.
In this role, you will support Payments and Payment Products revenue accounting, leveraging technical expertise with US GAAP, specifically ASC 606. You will quickly identify accounting implications and impacts on customers while advising and collaborating with team members cross-functionally to develop operational processes that help scale.
Responsibilities:
- Build scalable accounting processes to support global growth in payment processing accounting
- Partner closely with product, go-to-market, and finance partners to understand new products, features, and contracts
- Collaborate with internal systems and engineering teams to support internal financial systems and automation of accounting processes
- Assess the effectiveness of internal controls and design new processes and controls for emerging and growing business activities
- Develop and maintain up-to-date accounting procedural documentation
- Plan and perform monthly and quarterly close activities, including journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, variance analyses, financial reporting deliverables, and analytical reviews
- Produce internal management analyses and reporting
- Support external audit processes
Requirements:
- An accountancy qualification (e.g., CA, CPA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with 2-3 years of relevant accounting experience
- Degree in Accounting or Finance background
- Proven experience in the monthly close process, journal preparation and posting, audit, regulatory reporting, and exposure to accounting systems
- Experience in month-end reporting and financial statement preparation
- Working knowledge of US GAAP - ASC 606
- Strong analytical skills and knowledge of Excel
- Ability to bring structure to ambiguous areas and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment
- Enthusiastic 'roll-up-your-sleeves' mentality
- Passion for creating new systems and solving problems via infrastructure and automation
- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and with different cultures
- Demonstrated experience with internal controls
- Flexibility and comfort with changing requirements
Preferred qualifications:
- CPA/CA or similar qualification
- Knowledge of or experience in the technology or payments industry
- Experience working with Oracle Suite
- Experience with Hubble and SQL
- Experience with Analytical Tools like Power BI, Tableau, KNIME, Python, Alteryx