Head of Corporate Accounting
Company: Stripe, Inc
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: January 15, 2021
Job Description:
Be a part of building the Internal Audit team at--Stripe! Stripe
is building a world class Internal Audit (IA) team. Our IA team is
responsible for providing independent and objective assurance
review on the design and operational effectiveness of Stripe's
framework of risk management, control and governance processes.
We're looking for an Internal Audit Regulatory & Financial Partners
Compliance Lead with extensive regulatory compliance audit
experience, who will help us build and maintain the regulatory
compliance audit program at Stripe. The ideal candidate will have a
proven track record of working within a high-performing, fast-paced
environment to build a growing function. This position is based in
San Francisco.-- You will:
- Assist with the development of a risk-based regulatory
compliance audit plan.
- Be recognized as a leader, internal controls expert and
consultant; develop and maintain collaborative working
relationships with leadership, learning and understanding the
business to better provide value-added services and help leadership
achieve objectives.
- Plan and execute audits of processes in support of a healthy
internal controls environment, which mitigates regulatory
compliance risks.
- Plan and execute continuous monitoring of key regulatory
compliance (AML, KYC, Sanctions) and financial partner (GARS)
requirements.
- Participate in ad-hoc programs and initiatives to provide
control advisory services.
- Ensure the audit team works seamlessly with critical business
partners such as Compliance Teams, Risk Teams, Financial Crimes and
other second lines of defense to plan and execute audit work, thus
eliminating duplication and improving the efficiency of audit
activities.
- Ensure the overall quality, consistency, and adherence to
departmental and professional audit standards, identifying
opportunities for audit process improvement and integration with
the financial, operational, compliance, and IT audit
processes.
- Present findings and recommendations to the leadership team and
actively monitor audit related remediation and action plans.
- Participate in enterprise risk assessment activities and help
execute the enterprise risk management plan. Research and stay
current on new technical literature applicable to the internal
control process (e.g., FFIEC, PCAOB guidance, SEC, etc.), emerging
trends and best practices. Our ideal candidate will have:
- 8+ years of Internal Audit and project management experience
with an accounting, consulting, or financial services firm.
- Sound knowledge and experience in AML, KYC, Sanctions and
payment licencing within banking / financial services.
- Ability to act as a regulatory and risk management consultant
to management in any area of regulatory compliance with minimal
oversight.
- Exceptional executive presence and the ability to discuss
complex issues with any level of management.
- High quality auditor and professional judgment.
- Strong influencing abilities and techniques.
- Must be collaborative, team oriented, and possess strong
communication and interpersonal skills.
- Provides extraordinary service to auditee.
- CAMS, CPA, CIA or CISA certification. Nice to haves:
- Public accounting and/or start-up experience.
- Previous experience in a high volume transactional payment
environment.-- As the leader for Global Outbound Sales at Stripe,
you will drive Stripe's future growth engine by building Stripe's
pipeline for new business sales from startups to enterprises and
across our growing product portfolio. As the leader of this key
function, you'll manage and coach high-performing teams, helping
them deliver on ambitious targets, while rolling up your sleeves to
work directly with the team. We are looking for a proven leader
with outbound experience, who is still up for pushing the needle on
new and innovative ways to bring scale and data to bear on pipeline
generation. Ideal candidates will have extensive management
experience scaling a technology outbound sales team across multiple
locations and in close partnership with a data science team. You
will:
- Recruit, train, and lead a teams of outbound business
associates and managers
- Develop the long-term vision and strategy for a growing team,
and scale day-to-day operations
- Be accountable for increasing sales pipeline and new client
acquisition
- Coach, mentor and guide the team in developing consultative and
solution-based outbound sales skills including: campaign strategy,
outbound execution, and nurturing interest to opportunities
- Effectively work cross-functionally across the organization to
shape Stripe's solutions to meet client needs
- Inspire, motivate and enable individual development to promote
career growth of direct reports We're looking for someone who has:
- 7+ years of people management experience, including managing
managers
- Experience leading outbound sales and operations in an early
stage, high-growth technology environment
- Ability to hire, train and coach a high-performance sales
team
- Demonstrated quantitative and analytical skills Nice to haves:
- Prior experience at a growth stage Internet/software
company
- Prior experience in enterprise sales and account-based
marketing
- Prior experience in the payments industry Support the expansion
and retention of Stripe's highest growth & largest customers As the
leader for Account Management in the US and Canada at Stripe, you
will drive growth of Stripe's existing customers from high growth
startups to global enterprises. You'll lead a quickly growing
organization across multiple offices that is focused on the
retention and expansion of our existing customers, driving
strategic engagement with executives in key accounts, while also
crafting strategies to increase adoption of our portfolio of
products across accounts. As the leader of this key function,
you'll manage and coach high-performing teams, helping them deliver
on ambitious targets, while rolling up your sleeves to work
directly with the team and our customers. We are looking for a
proven leader with sales and customer success experience, who loves
technical products and brings strong strategic and analytical
thinking to developing organizations. You will:
- Recruit, train, and lead a teams of account managers and
managers.
- Develop the long-term vision and strategy for a growing team,
and scale day-to-day operations.
- Be accountable for existing business revenue, customer
retention and revenue expansion.
- Coach, mentor and guide the team in developing consultative and
solution-based account plans, business reviews, and broader
customer engagement.
- Effectively work cross-functionally across the organization to
shape Stripe's product roadmap to meet customer needs.
- Inspire, motivate and enable individual development to promote
career growth of direct reports. You might be a fit if:
- 15+ years of people management experience, including managing
managers
- Experience leading Account Management, Customer Success, or
Sales organizations in a high-growth technology environment.
- Experience building teams across multiple offices, including
launching teams in new offices.
- Ability to hire, train and coach a high-performance sales
team.
- Demonstrated quantitative and analytical skills. Nice to haves:
- Prior experience at a growth stage internet/software
company.
- Prior experience in the payments industry Help scale our
finance infrastructure globally! Stripe is building a world class
finance team. 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 a corporate accountant to join our fast growing team and help
us manage and improve our close processes, work with business
partners, financial partners and our world-class engineers. You
will help us develop amazing accounting flows and help track our
progress within a fast-paced environment that's growing globally.
You will:
- Manage and streamline the entire monthly close process by
coordinating close activities and analysis across worldwide
accounting and finance.--
- Drive monthly close process improvements by understanding
underlying business processes, leveraging existing finance systems
(Oracle, Workday, Expensify etc.), and implementing new
systems.--
- Own the global chart of accounts and consolidations across
multiple legal entities in multiple countries.--
- Prepare and review month-end journal entries, balance sheet
reconciliations, flux analyses, and supporting schedules.
- Partner with and support our Strategic Planning & Analysis team
on understanding our corporate spend and new initiatives and
projects.
- Prepare and present monthly and quarterly management reporting
packages to members of our executive team.
- Develop strategies to improve accounting operations
effectiveness, including the development and execution of process
and system changes.
- Identify, assess, and implement technical accounting guidance
as it applies to relevant accounting areas.--
- Develop and maintain policies & procedures for above areas that
maximize operational efficiency while also ensuring proper internal
controls. We're looking for someone who has:
- 6-9 years of relevant accounting experience, with a degree in
Accounting or Finance (CPA strongly preferred).
- Public accounting (Big 4 preferred) and private industry
experience.
- Proven experience in areas such as month-end close, financial
reporting, finance systems implementation and maintenance, and
partnering across finance functions.
- Fluency with U.S. GAAP.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written
and verbal.
- Strong knowledge of Excel and accounting systems.--
- Good understanding of both financial and operational
controls.
- Ability to be flexible and comfortable with changing
requirements.
- Ability to handle multiple projects in a fast paced, hyper
growth environment. Nice to haves:
- Knowledge of (or experience in) the payments industry. Scale
our finance infrastructure globally! Stripe builds the most
powerful and flexible tools for running an internet business. We
handle billions of dollars each year and enable millions of users
around the world to scale faster and more efficiently by building
their businesses on Stripe. More than 80% of American adults bought
something on Stripe in the last year. To further this important
mission, we are seeking a Head of Corporate Accounting, reporting
directly to our Chief Accounting Officer (CAO). The Head of
Corporate Accounting serves as a key member of the controllership
leadership team overseeing Accounting Policy, Financial Reporting,
M&A accounting, and general accounting. The ideal candidate
will have extensive experience in a high growth technology or
regulated public company accounting team, with knowledge of
operating in a large scale, data heavy, dynamic environment. They
will be a leader who will build and develop a team that can scale
quickly and efficiently, and who conveys the energy and credibility
to accomplish our goals. You will:
- Partner with the CAO and leadership to identify and execute key
accounting and operations initiatives, help implement and improve
processes and controls, and help the company achieve its long term
financial goals.
- Lead the Financial Reporting, Technical Accounting, and
Close/Consolidation/GL teams at Stripe and help them develop into
world class functions.
- Be an acknowledged technical accounting expert. You will be a
resource for the accounting, finance and legal teams, as well as
the leadership team in advising the company on relevant accounting
guidance.
- Be knowledgeable about operating in a heavily regulated finance
environment, responsible for maintaining compliance with all
reporting deadlines and other accounting related compliance
obligations.
- Be familiar with all of the controls and processes needed to
operate in a public company environment.
- Be an expert with developing complex finance systems on a very
large scale, working directly with internal systems and engineering
teams to design, build and implement accounting automation at scale
and develop efficiency and scalability across all relevant
accounting areas.
- Be a great manager and mentor to a large and fast growing
accounting group at Stripe. Our ideal candidate will have:
- Bachelor's Degree (or higher) in Accounting or Finance.
- CPA certification or equivalent with a minimum of eight years
in public accounting.
- 8+ years of experience in a senior accounting position in a
regulated public company environment.
- Previous experience managing finance and accounting functions
at scale in a hyper growth environment.--
- Experience navigating through complex technical accounting
concepts and a proven track record in thought leadership in
technical accounting.
- Exceptional business acumen and the proven ability to mentor
and lead teams that have implemented large scale finance process
implementations and improvements. To apply, please include the
following with your application: Help establish best-in-class
financial reporting and technical accounting workflows within a
fast-paced environment! Stripe builds the most powerful and
flexible tools to accept payments online. Since our founding, we've
grown our organization to 1000+ team members across eleven global
offices, and are processing billions of dollars a year for
thousands of businesses in 25 countries. Stripe powers many new
businesses, many in categories that barely existed five years ago,
and we believe it's a snapshot of how the internet is changing.
Many of our greatest challenges have yet to be solved, so we're
looking for a consultative and creative problem solver to join a
small team focused on growing and scaling our Financial Reporting
and Technical Accounting workflows within a fast-paced environment
that's growing globally. You can expect high impact and
wide-ranging responsibility on a team that shapes our understanding
of how Stripe is performing as a business and advises on
non-routine transactions. You will:
- Shape the evolution of financial reporting and analysis
workflows and deliverables.
- Invest in process and system changes needed to support changing
reporting requirements.
- Lead the creation and maintenance of global accounting policies
and documentation.
- Navigate challenging technical accounting issues; advise on
complex transactions, interpret new accounting standards, lead
business combination integration initiatives, and track Stripe's
investments.
- Manage projects with accounting service providers.
- Handle ad hoc information requests from investors and other
external stakeholders. Our ideal candidate will have:
- 7-8 years of relevant accounting experience in industry and
public (Big 4 preferred), with a CPA license.
- Experience at a company with best-in-class reporting
processes.
- Expertise in U.S. GAAP and the ability to navigate complex
transactions and accounting concepts.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- The ability to maintain high-performance and attention to
detail under tight timelines, as well as a "roll up your sleeves"
mindset to get any job done.
- Oracle, Workiva, or other equivalent application experience.
Nice to haves:
- Knowledge of (or experience in) the payments industry.
- Experience with SQL or a willingness to learn. Be a part of
building the Finance team at--Stripe Stripe's mission is to
increase the GDP of the internet. We build the most powerful and
flexible tools for running an internet business. We handle billions
of dollars each year and enable millions of users around the world
to scale faster and more efficiently by building their businesses
on Stripe. More than 80% of American adults bought something on
Stripe in the last year. To further this important mission, we are
building a team to drive strategy, financial and business planning
at Stripe. We are looking for an insightful and analytical
individual to be the financial and strategic partner to key leaders
of the Real Estate and Workplace teams to accelerate achievement of
our long term goals. Your work will be instrumental to Stripe
achieving its mission, be highly visible to Stripe leadership, and
will drive key insights for Board discussions. You will:
- Nurture deep, trusted partnerships with your respective
business teams.
- Provide analytical rigor and bring strategic leadership to
operational initiatives.
- Evaluate organizational tradeoffs in team planning, and be a
key decision-maker in investment and operational strategies.
- Be your business teams' go-to financial partner for ad hoc
analysis and relevant external relations (for example, negotiating
new contract terms or evaluating prospective partnerships).
- Lead strategic and financial planning processes for your teams
(e.g., Monthly Reviews, Forecasts, Annual Budget, and Long Range
Plan).
- Develop and monitor critical success metrics, and communicate
actionable insights to relevant stakeholders.
- Build and own scenario models for in-depth analyses, as well as
ensure their quality, timeliness, and accuracy. We're looking for
someone who has:
- 6-8+ years of relevant experience within investment banking,
management consulting, private equity, plus for recent experience
in strategic or operational finance functions at a high-growth
technology company
- Demonstrated experience partnering with Real Estate and
Workplace functions, preferably across international markets
- Demonstrated abilities to ask the right questions and to use
sound business judgment when collaborating with a wide-range of
stakeholders
- The ability to maintain high-performance under tight timelines,
and a "roll up your sleeves" mindset to get any job done
- Proven proclivity for quickly identifying and methodically
resolving potential road-blocks
- A keen analytical eye, and extensive experience building
integrated models from scratch (in Excel or other planning
applications)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and a
willingness to proactively work with functions across the
company
- Oracle, Anaplan, or other equivalent application
experience
- Experience with SQL or a willingness to learn is a must
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