Processing Cost Analyst
Stripe · Posted Oct 26
Online payment processing, billing, and financial infrastructure services
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About the role
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. The Product Accounting team provides accounting guidance, records business transactions accurately, and partners with cross-functional and international teams. This role supports payment processing cost accounting, applying US GAAP and ASC 606 to advise partners and build scalable accounting processes.
What you will do
- Build scalable accounting processes to support global growth in payment processing cost accounting
- Partner with product, go-to-market, and Finance teams to understand new products, features, and contracts
- Partner with systems and engineering teams to improve financial systems and automate accounting processes
- Assess the effectiveness of internal controls and design processes and controls for emerging business activities
- Develop and maintain current accounting procedure documentation
- Plan and perform monthly and quarterly close activities, including journal entries, balance-sheet reconciliations, variance analyses, financial reporting deliverables, and reviews
- Produce management analyses and reporting, and support external audit processes
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Professional accountancy qualification, such as CA, CPA, ACA, ACCA, or CIMA, and 2–3 years of relevant accounting experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
- Experience with monthly or quarterly close processes, journal-entry preparation and posting, audits, regulatory reporting, financial-statement preparation, and accounting systems
- Working knowledge of US GAAP, including ASC 606, and experience with internal controls
- Ability to structure ambiguous work, solve problems using Excel, build systems and automation, collaborate across functions and cultures, and adapt to changing requirements
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in the technology or payments industry
- Experience with Oracle Suite
- Experience with data-querying and analysis tools, including SQL
- Experience with data-analysis tools, such as Power BI, Tableau, KNIME, Python, or Alteryx
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Stripe
Stripe is a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet, providing payment processing and financial services software for businesses of all sizes. Millions of companies use its suite of products to accept online and in-person payments, manage revenue, and run operations globally.
- Industry
- Payments
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 2010
- Location
- South San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Private Company
Funding
Private Company · $9.81B raised
- 2023-03-26Series I$6.5B
- 2023-04-01Grant$11.1M
- 2024-04-08Secondary Market$694M
Leadership
Co-Founder and CEO
Co-Founder and President
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Technology Officer
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