Corporate Accounting Manager

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

The Accounting Team is responsible for understanding and telling Stripe’s financial story and shaping our collective understanding of how Stripe is performing as a business. Our primary focus is maintaining a well-controlled environment that effectively supports corporate governance, financial reporting and disclosure requirements. We advise and enable Stripe to grow. We operate in a fast-paced environment and collaborate significantly with cross-functional and international teams.

What it asks for · 6

• 10+ years of progressive public accounting and/or industry experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance, with a CPA or equivalent professional accounting qualification
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and experience researching, evaluating, and communicating complex accounting conclusions
• Experience designing, implementing, and executing internal controls in a SOX or similarly controlled financial-reporting environment
• Demonstrated success improving accounting processes or systems and using complex datasets to investigate issues, assess results, and support complex decisions
• Strong people leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to prioritize and deliver high-quality results in a fast-moving environment

Also a plus

• Experience at a large public accounting firm evaluating high volume and high complexity transactions and within the technology, payments, financial services, an/or another rapidly scaling industry
• Experience leading geographically distributed teams and financial-systems implementations, integrations, and/or process transformations
• Proficiency with SQL, business-intelligence tools, automation, or AI-assisted accounting workflows, including the design of appropriate review and control procedures

What the job covers

• Lead, develop, and support a high-performing team, setting clear priorities and expectations while fostering accountability and professional growth across key GL areas, including operating expenses, accruals, debt, and related balance-sheet and income-statement accounts.
• Own the team’s monthly, quarterly, and annual close activities, including journal entries, reconciliations, analytical reviews, variance explanations, management reporting, and audit support.
• Provide oversight and judgment on complex accounting matters, ensure compliance with U.S. GAAP, and maintain effective accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls.
• Partner closely with Finance & Strategy, Treasury, People, Legal, Procurement, Workplace, Finance Operations, and other teams to support business initiatives, resolve accounting issues, and optimize global processes.
• Build scalable processes that shorten the close, improve accuracy, timeliness, auditability, and the quality of financial explanations, reduce manual work, and establish clear ownership and consistent execution.
• Champion the thoughtful use of financial systems, data, automation, and AI by translating accounting needs into requirements and establishing appropriate review, monitoring, documentation, and controls.

Degree language

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance, with a CPA or equivalent professional accounting qualification

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

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• financial7×
• requirements6×
• business5×
• complex5×
• experience5×
• processes5×
• support5×
• controls4×
• close3×
• finance3×
• results3×
• and/or2×
• appropriate review2×
• areas2×
• automation2×

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