Accounting Analyst

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.

Corporate Accounting works across teams to distill the scale and complexity of Stripe’s operations into clear and insightful financial reporting. Quick and accurate close and reporting processes are foundational to our understanding of business performance. You will play an integral role in shaping the evolution of our close processes and systems in accounting areas such as operating expenses, prepaids, accruals, fixed assets, leases, debt, investments, equity, stock-based compensation, and close management. You will also advise on the accounting implications of new initiatives and transactions. 

• Perform month end accounting processes to support rapid global growth
• Work in three main pillars financial close and analysis, audit and regulatory compliance and reporting
• Own the Statutory Financial Statement preparation, Audit, review and sign off and adoption of financial statements with the board of directors. 
• Work with Local service providers to ensure compliance and filing requirements are met timely and accurately. 
• Work with cross functional partners like Tax, Treasury, Accounting and other groups to ensure that financial results of the legal entities remain compliant with US Gaap and Local Gaaps. 
• Perform monthly and quarterly close activities, including manual journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, variance analyses and analytical reviews, producing internal management reporting and external audit support
• Potential to perform month end activities and grow into other task and process to take on further responsibilities
• Be responsible for end to end preparation of journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations
• Prepare flux analysis and potential commentary and explanation on movements and trends
• Be responsible for performing transactional based work and streamlining processes
• Be a self starter and seek to standardize and centralize tasks 
• Own problems not just processes or projects - we want our specialists to own the full problem space and do what it takes to solve them
• Partner with multiple cross-functional stakeholders and subject matter experts to develop and improve controllership processes and to anticipate changing business requirements
• Scale our financial processes through automation and standardization 

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

• An accountancy qualification (e.g CA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with 3 -6 years of relevant accounting experience
• Degree in Accounting or Finance background
• Proven experience in the monthly close process, journal preparation and posting, audit, and exposure to accounting systems.
• Experience in month end reporting and analytics
• Working knowledge of US GAAP 
• The ability to bring structure to ambiguous areas of opportunity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment
• Strong analytical skills and strong knowledge of Excel.
• Knowledge of data modeling or experience in any analytics tool will be an added advantage.
• An enthusiastic “roll up your sleeves” mentality
• A 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
• Ability to be flexible and comfortable with changing requirements

• Knowledge of (or experience in) the technology or payments industry
• Oracle suite
• Hubble/SQL
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