Accounting Analyst - Revenue Accountant

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.

Responsibilities

• Build scalable accounting processes to support global growth in payment processing accounting
• Partner closely with our product, go-to-market, and finance partners to thoroughly understand new products, features, and contracts.
• Partner with internal systems and engineering teams to support internal financial systems and automation of accounting processes
• 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

Minimum requirements

• An accountancy qualification (e.g CA, CPA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with 3 -6 years of relevant accounting experience
• Degree in Accounting or Finance background
• Proven experience in the monthly close process, journal preparation and posting, audit, regulatory reporting and exposure to accounting systems.
• Experience in month end reporting and financial statement preparation
• Working knowledge of US GAAP - ASC 606, ASC326 & ASC450
• The ability to bring structure to ambiguous areas of opportunity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment
• Strong analytical skills and strong knowledge of Excel
• An enthusiastic “roll up your sleeves” mentality
• A passion for creating new systems and solving problems via infrastructure and automation
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and with different cultures
• Demonstrated experience with internal controls
• Ability to be flexible and comfortable with changing requirements

Preferred qualifications

• Knowledge of (or experience in) the technology or payments industry.
• Experience working with Oracle Suite
• Experience with Hubble and SQL