Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, and they are seeking a Finance & Strategy Partner to join their growing team. This role involves forecasting, budgeting, and reporting for AI investments, while collaborating with various teams to enhance integrated financial systems and metrics.

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)
• Build and own models for in-depth analyses, as well as ensure their quality, timeliness, and accuracy
• Define metrics and leading indicators of business performance
• Partner with cross functional teams, such as Finance Systems, Data Science, and Infrastructure Engineering to develop reporting dashboards
• Drive continuous process improvement, standardization, simplification and reporting enhancements

Skills

• 7-9 years of relevant experience in strategic finance or FP&A
• Demonstrated experience driving and executing on finance processes (e.g. budget and forecast creation, contract negotiations, headcount envelope management)
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools (coding agents, skills, forecasting tools) to develop data visualizations and explore datasets and developing expertise in new tools quickly
• Fluency in AI cost drivers and metrics, including token caching/reads/writes, model selection principles, and billing frameworks
• Deep understanding of expense accounting principles including accruals, amortization, and capitalization
• Ability to manage cross-functional programs, using influence without authority to manage non-financial deliverables from partner teams
• Ability to build strong, collaborative relationships with business partners and cross-functional stakeholders
• Highly proactive, able to anticipate and execute critical analyses independently and drive business results without significant supervision
• Ability to deliver results under tight timelines and a 'roll up your sleeves' mindset to get any job done
• Bring structure to ambiguous questions and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent problem-solving skills and demonstrated ability to work independently, analyze problems and data sets to make complex investigation decisions
• Detail-oriented, with the ability to tailor the level of detail communicated to different audiences
• Experience working in corporate finance at a high-growth technology company
• Experience managing headcount and operating expenses
• Experience supporting engineering teams
• Experience with Oracle, Anaplan, or similar financial management applications
• Experience with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or similar coding agents
• Experience in data visualization and dashboarding
• Background in investment banking, private equity, corporate development, and/or consulting
• Strong knowledge of G-suite tools and extracting, analyzing and evaluating information from large data sets using SQL and large language models

Company Overview

Company H1B Sponsorship