Legal Entity Controller

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.

About the team

To further this mission, we're building our International Accounting Stripe Delivery Center team and are looking for someone to help us scale for the future in a fast-paced environment.

What you'll do

Responsibilities

• Perform month-end accounting processes to support rapid global growth
• Work in three main pillars—financial close and analysis, audit and regulatory compliance, and reporting
• Own statutory financial statement preparation, audit, review and sign-off, and adoption of financial statements with the board of directors
• Work with local service providers to ensure compliance and filing requirements are met timely and accurately
• Work with cross-functional partners like Tax, Treasury, Accounting, and other groups to ensure that financial results of the legal entities remain compliant with US GAAP and local GAAP
• Perform monthly and quarterly close activities, including manual journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, variance analyses, and analytical reviews, producing internal management reporting and external audit support
• Perform month-end activities and grow into additional tasks and processes to take on further responsibilities
• Prepare end-to-end journal entries and balance sheet reconciliations
• Prepare flux analysis and commentary on movements and trends
• Perform transactional work and streamline processes
• Be a self-starter and seek to standardize and centralize tasks
• Own problems, not just processes or projects—take ownership of the full problem space and do what it takes to solve them
• Partner with multiple cross-functional stakeholders and subject matter experts to develop and improve controllership processes and to anticipate changing business requirements
• Scale our financial processes through automation and standardization

Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• An accountancy qualification (e.g., CA, ACA, ACCA, CIMA) with 8+ years of relevant accounting experience
• A degree in Accounting or Finance
• Proven experience in the monthly close process, journal preparation and posting, audit, and exposure to accounting systems
• Experience in month-end reporting and analytics
• Working knowledge of US GAAP
• Ability to bring structure to ambiguous situations and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment
• Strong problem-solving skills and knowledge of Excel
• A hands-on mentality
• A passion for creating new systems and solving problems via infrastructure and automation
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally and across different cultures
• Demonstrated experience with internal controls
• Flexibility and comfort with changing requirements

Preferred qualifications

• Knowledge of or experience in the technology or payments industry
• Experience with Oracle suite
• Experience with Hubble and SQL
• Knowledge of data modeling or experience with analytics tools