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
Our Finance and Strategy team (F&S) are strategic business partners to Stripe’s leaders, providing clear insights which simplify the complexity of the business, and drive the key operating forums to enable effective decision-making.
This is a newly created role focused on driving transformation of F&S’s processes and systems, with responsibility to build and scale a Program Management Office. This is an exciting opportunity to partner with teams across finance, providing thought leadership and execution support for driving a highly technical portfolio of cross functional projects.
What you'll do
Responsibilities
- Develop, and implement a program management strategy to lead and report on a portfolio of projects across F&S
- Drive execution of complex cross-functional F&S initiatives across Stripe that impact financial systems, processes, metrics, financial planning, etc
- Help problem solve and drive execution through contextual knowledge and conceptual understanding of Finance (FP&A or F&S) systems and processes
- Identify opportunities to develop processes, methodologies and standards for the F&S team to effectively scale and/or offshore financial processes
- Collaborate and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders in F&S and across the organization
- Ideate, concept, plan and execute financial projects (e.g. Improvements to Metrics, Anaplan, Financial Data Warehouse)
- Develop and execute change management plans to prepare for and manage successful implementation
Who you are
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.
Minimum requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science or related fields required
- 7+ years of proven program/ project / process management experience with some of this partnering with Finance (FP&A or F&S) and/or Technology teams
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills using process and data insights
- Demonstrated history of taking on various types of challenging projects and producing results through hands-on involvement in the work, in addition to facilitating and project managing
- Success in crafting and articulating ideas and plans to both management and peers in the context of business priorities and needs
- Strong communication skills including conflict resolution, team management, and presentations
- Collaborative facilitator who develops relationships and loyalty with their colleagues across all business functions and levels
- Solution-oriented mindset with enthusiasm for establishing best practices and improving how work is done
- Self-disciplined, diligent, proactive and detail oriented
Preferred qualifications
- An MS or MBA degree is desirable
- Experience with various project management (e.g. MS Project, Jira, Asana) and process workflow management tools (BlueWorks Live, PowerAutomate)
- Experience mapping data flows and transformations working with technical and business teams is highly desirable
