# Finance & Strategy Lead, Payments Product

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

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## Description

## Job Description

We're seeking a seasoned finance leader to lead our Agentic Commerce ambitions, both internally and externally. You'll partner with product and engineering leads for Agentic Commerce, acting as a trusted financial and strategic advisor.

### Responsibilities

- Act as a financial and strategic advisor to the business, building investment cases and business plans, and evaluating business performance.

- Create executive-ready presentations that tell the 'investor narrative' taking into account internal data as well as external resources.

- Support new business / product launches, helping drive strategy and decision-making by bringing rigorous driver-based financial analyses / frameworks and product and industry expertise to help product leaders evaluate tradeoffs and shape strategic roadmaps.

- As the business matures, establish and maintain key business metrics and KPIs to measure performance of new products.

- Lead the quarterly forecast and annual strategic financial planning process.

- Develop long range financial models with scenario analysis and actionable recommendations on growth, monetization and where to prioritize investments.

- Present performance in business forums, highlighting drivers, risks and actionable insights.

- Drive process improvement and analytics scalability, partnering cross-functionally to evolve data infrastructure, reporting and analytics.

- Identify opportunities to leverage AI and automation to enable the team to operate at the leading edge of financial analysis.

### Requirements

- At least 10+ years of relevant experience within strategic finance, ideally at a high-growth technology company and/or with prior experience in hedge funds, sell-side, or VC with strong analytical background (i.e. investment banking).

- B.A. or B.S degree in related field.

- Exceptional analytical capabilities and business acumen, with the ability to simplify and distill complex information in a rigorous but consumable way.

- Ability to create polished, executive- and investor-ready presentations that communicate complex narratives clearly and concisely with high impact.

- Broad exposure to multiple industries and sectors; experience in technology, SaaS, or AI is a plus.

- Proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners and executives; you are seen as a trusted and objective advisor.

- An enthusiastic self-starter with a 'roll up your sleeves' mentality.

- Ability to manage multiple work streams and maintain high performance under tight timelines.

- Ability to deal effectively with ambiguity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment.

- Experience with SQL or a willingness to learn.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

## Skills

### Required
- strategic finance
- financial analysis
- investment banking
- SQL
- data infrastructure
- reporting
- analytics

### Nice to have
- payment and card networks economics
- partnerships or deal-making function

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