International Accounting Lead, Stripe
€104.5-156.7k
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2-3 days a week in office
A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
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A financial infrastructure platform for businesses
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
€104.5-156.7k
More information about location
2-3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To increase the GDP of the internet
Role
Who you are
- Professional Certification: Active ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent
- Experience: 10+ years of progressive accounting or audit experience; Big 4, payments, financial services, or tech industry experience highly preferred
- Technical Accounting: Demonstrated technical expertise and practical application of IFRS, FRS 102, and US GAAP
- Audit & Tax Expertise: Proven experience managing large-scale statutory audits involving central and local teams, as well as overseeing tax filings
- Systems Knowledge: Strong proficiency with enterprise accounting systems (Oracle or similar) highly preferred
- Project Management: Demonstrated success in leading and delivering cross-functional initiatives
- Adaptability & Drive: A proactive self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, hyper-growth environment and is highly comfortable pivoting alongside changing business requirements
- Analytical Rigor: Exceptional attention to detail combined with strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Collaboration: A team-oriented mindset with the ability to partner and communicate effectively across diverse internal teams
- You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description
What the job involves
- Our finance team is responsible for shaping our understanding of how Stripe is performing as a business, as well as what our best opportunities are for continued growth
- We’re looking for an experienced financial controller to join our International Accounting team
- As a key part of our controllership team in Dublin, you will help us build our technical accounting and financial reporting processes, work with business partners, financial partners, external stakeholders and our engineers
- You will help us develop best in class accounting processes and help track our progress within a fast-paced environment that’s growing globally
- Lead the Financial Close: Manage the end-to-end monthly close of US GAAP books, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timeliness
- Manage Reporting Deliverables: Oversee the preparation and submission of comprehensive regulatory and financial reporting
- Own the Statutory Audit Process: Lead financial statement preparation, audit support, and technical documentation, culminating in presentations to the Board of Directors
- Ensure Regulatory Compliance: Proactively monitor and adapt to changes in global accounting and tax regulations to maintain strict compliance
- Oversee & support preparation of direct and indirect tax returns
- Develop the Team: Mentor, guide, and manage the professional progression of a high-performing controllership team
- Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner effectively with Tax, Transfer Pricing, Treasury, Finance and Strategy, and Legal teams on diverse strategic projects
- Act as a Business Partner: Develop a deep understanding of the Company’s transactions and contracts to properly advise cross-functional teams
- Manage External Partners: Oversee and optimize our relationships with finance outsourcing vendors and auditors
- Provide Technical Expertise: Maintain fluency in US GAAP and IFRS/FRS102, researching complex issues and producing clear technical accounting memos
- Champion AI Adoption: Act as an innovation leader by evaluating, recommending, and implementing AI solutions to drive measurable process improvements across teams
Our take
Stripe, nowadays a FinTech giant, spent the first few years since its founding building up its payments business, which primarily consisted of providing an API to eCommerce businesses so that they could easily integrate a payment option in their apps or websites, where before there was none.
More recently, Stripe has started to accelerate its growth with a significantly larger range of financial services including cash advances and credit cards. They also plan to build incorporation services, fraud protection, and more, diversifying its revenue away from payments and differentiating itself from its competitors.
To further expand its position, the company is extending its services to countries with vast customer potential, including Brazil, Japan and India. It is also partnering with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT - a win-win collaboration that is monetising OpenAI’s flagship products and at the same time enhancing Stripe with GPT-4, as it moves forward with intentions to "build the payments foundation for tomorrow's AI economy."
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 14 rounds)
Mar 2023
$6.5bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$600m
SERIES H
Total funding: $8.7bn
Company benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Comprehensive mental, physical and medical health plans
- Fertility benefits and parental leave
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Patrick Collison
(CEO)Studied maths at MIT before founding Stripe. Also on the board of the Long Now Foundation.
John Collison
(President)Studied at Harvard but dropped out to found Stripe.
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