# Financial Analyst, Business F&S **Company**: Stripe **Location**: Bengaluru **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Finance **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/stripe/jobs/8066264?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_9552b889-582 ## Description ## About the Role We are hiring a Financial Analyst for Group Business F&S to build, standardize, and scale the reporting, planning, and process excellence functions that support Group Business Finance & Strategy. This role covers the full spectrum of Group Business F&S financial operations including headcount reporting and analytics, month end close accruals, opex reporting and BvA, business review preparation, and forward-looking planning cycles. The immediate and primary mandate is to establish a clean, consistent, and automated reporting foundation across Group Business F&S, bringing discipline and rigor to how financial and workforce data is tracked, packaged, and presented to F&S leadership. ## Responsibilities ### Reporting and Analytics: - Own end-to-end delivery of the monthly and quarterly reporting packages for Group Business F&S, including headcount actuals, opex BvA, forecast variance commentary, and trend analysis for MBRs, RTBRs, and board-level reviews - Design, build, and maintain standardized dashboards and data packs that give F&S leadership a clear, consistent, and audit-ready view of Group Business F&S financial and workforce health across planning orgs, cost centers, functions, and geographies - Own headcount reporting and analytics as a core component of the Group Business F&S reporting suite, tracking HC actuals, variances, and trends alongside broader financial metrics - Establish a single source of truth for Group Business F&S data by driving cross-system integrity across Workday, planning systems, and Oracle, defining data quality standards and owning resolution of discrepancies - Translate financial and workforce data into clear, concise narratives that explain variances, surface risks, and connect business trends to financial outcomes for senior leaders - Automate and streamline recurring reporting workflows, eliminating manual steps and building for scale and consistency ### Planning and Forecasting: Strategic Ownership - Support the annual budget and quarterly forecast processes for Group Business F&S, maintaining and updating financial and HC models by planning org and cost center in Anaplan or any other enterprise planning system - Over time, take ownership of specific forecast line items within Group Business F&S, building bottoms-up models that incorporate headcount, opex, requisitions, backfill decisions, attrition assumptions, and hire-ahead activity - Build scenario models to support F&S leadership in assessing the financial and operational impact of business and workforce decisions across Group Business F&S ### Process Excellence and Standardization - Lead the documentation and standardization of reporting and planning processes across Group Business F&S, building SOPs, data dictionaries, and process playbooks that ensure consistency, continuity, and auditability - Identify inefficiencies across reporting and planning workflows and drive automation initiatives that reduce cycle time and improve output quality - Champion process improvement opportunities within F&S Bengaluru, bringing proposals to F&S leadership for prioritization and resourcing - Mentor and guide junior analysts in F&S Bengaluru on reporting standards, analytical rigor, and process discipline ## Requirements ### Minimum Requirements - 7–14 years of progressive experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance, or financial analysis, with meaningful hands-on experience in financial reporting, planning, and process standardization - Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field - Strong FP&A fundamentals: you have owned reporting cycles, built and maintained financial models, and managed budget and forecast processes with precision and without supervision - Proven track record of building and standardizing reporting processes, with a demonstrated ability to bring structure, consistency, and automation to previously manual or fragmented workflows - Experience in headcount reporting and workforce analytics as part of a broader FP&A or Corporate Finance remit - Command of enterprise planning systems such as Anaplan or any equivalent tool for financial and headcount planning; working knowledge of Workday for position and people data is an advantage - Advanced Excel and Google Sheets skills, including integrated model design, scenario modeling, and large-dataset manipulation - Demonstrated ability to translate complex financial and workforce data into clear, concise narratives for senior leaders - Strong process orientation with a history of building scalable, structured processes in ambiguous or resource-constrained environments - High attention to detail with the discipline to maintain accuracy across high-volume, recurring deliverables under tight deadlines - Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work effectively across time zones and with US-based counterparts ## Skills ### Required - FP&A - Corporate Finance - financial analysis - financial reporting - planning - process standardization - Anaplan - Workday - Excel - Google Sheets ### Nice to have - SQL - data visualization tools - Tableau - Looker - Hubble - MBA - CA - CMA - CFA - CPA - CPIM --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/stripe/jobs/8066264?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)