Revenue and Go-to-Market Accounting, Stripe

• 10+ years of relevant public accounting and/or industry experience in accounting
• B.A. or B.S degree in Accounting or Finance (CA/CPA strongly preferred)
• Fluency in U.S. GAAP and ability to research complex accounting issues with a focus in ASC 606
• Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal, with ability to convey financial concepts to both financial and non-financial audiences
• Strong knowledge of Excel and experience working with large data sets, often coming from multiple sources
• Demonstrated experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders
• Experience with internal controls (design, implementation and execution)
• Demonstrated history of taking on various types of challenging projects and producing results, with excellent attention to detail
• Solution-oriented mindset with enthusiasm for establishing best practices, and challenging existing processes to identify improvement opportunities

Desirable

• Stripe is seeking a highly experienced accountant to join its world class Accounting team and help us scale for the future, in a fast-paced environment that is growing rapidly
• In this role you will support our global revenue accounting across Payments and SaaS products, leveraging your technical expertise with US GAAP, specifically ASC 606, to quickly identify accounting implications and impacts to customers while advising and collaborating with team members cross-functionally to develop operational processes that help us scale
• Build scalable accounting processes to support global growth in payment processing accounting
• In conjunction with our GTM Revenue Intake accounting team, partner closely with our product, go-to-market, and finance partners to thoroughly understand new products, features, and contracts, and advise on operational accounting implications
• Partner with internal systems and engineering teams to support internal financial systems and automation of accounting processes
• Leverage deep understanding of ASC 606 to develop requirements and standard operating procedures to support policies
• Assess the effectiveness of internal controls, and design new processes and controls for emerging and growing business activities
• Develop and maintain up-to-date accounting procedural documentation
• Plan and perform monthly and quarterly close activities, including journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, variance analyses, financial reporting deliverables, and analytical reviews
• Produce internal management analyses and reporting
• Support external audit processes

• Unlimited paid time off policy
• Work from home opportunities
• Comprehensive mental, physical and medical health plans
• Fertility benefits and parental leave

Total funding: $8.7bn

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 payments option in their apps or websites, where before there was none.