Finance & Strategy Partner, Central Engineering

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, and they are seeking a Finance and Strategy Partner to join their team. This role involves supporting and influencing strategic decisions, collaborating with various teams to improve financial systems, and driving productivity and cost efficiency in AI investments.

Responsibilities:

• Leverage your financial background to support and influence key strategic and business decisions
• Be your business teams' financial partner for analysis and evaluation of strategic projects and initiatives (e.g. foundational investments or business model shifts)
• Design and provide analytical rigor to measure efficiency and ROI of investments in headcount and non-headcount expenses
• Drive reporting, process, and discipline for finance routines to shape and influence decision-making (e.g. budget, forecast, monthly reviews, long-range plans)
• Build and own models for in-depth analyses, as well as ensure their quality, timeliness, and accuracy
• Partner with cross-functional teams, such as Finance Systems, Data Science, and Infrastructure Engineering, to develop reporting dashboards
• Drive continuous process improvement, standardization, simplification, and reporting enhancements

Requirements:

• 7–9 years of relevant experience in strategic finance or FP&A
• Demonstrated experience driving and executing on finance processes (e.g. budget and forecast creation, contract negotiations, headcount envelope management)
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools (coding agents, skills, forecasting tools) to develop data visualizations and explore datasets and developing expertise in new tools quickly
• Fluency in AI cost drivers and metrics, including token caching, reads, and writes, model selection principles, and billing frameworks
• Deep understanding of expense accounting principles including accruals, amortization, and capitalization
• Experience working in corporate finance at a high-growth technology company
• Experience managing headcount and operating expenses
• Experience supporting engineering teams
• Experience with Oracle, Anaplan, or similar financial management applications
• Experience with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar coding agents
• Experience in data visualization and dashboarding
• Background in investment banking, private equity, corporate development, or consulting
• Strong knowledge of G Suite tools and extracting, analyzing, and evaluating information from large data sets using SQL and large language models