Central Engineering Finance & Strategy

Who we are

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

About the team

The Infrastructure Finance & Strategy team is an integral thought partner to Stripe’s engineering leadership. We bring understanding and predictability to Stripe’s R&D investments and operating expenses. We work cross functionally across many surfaces at Stripe and help ensure the durability of our long term financial performance.

What you’ll do

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. They will collaborate with data science, engineering, and finance teams to deliver improvements in our integrated financial systems and metrics, and help drive our strategies for productivity improvement and cost efficiency.

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)

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