Central Engineering Finance – Strategy
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Finance & Strategy Partner at Stripe supporting forecasting and budgeting for AI investments while driving process improvements and financial strategy. Collaborating across teams to enhance decision-making.
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.
Requirements:
- 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.
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- Competitive salary
- Professional development opportunities
- Flexible working hours










