About the Role
Stripe's Accounting Team is seeking an innovative embedded technical resource to help scale for the future in a fast-paced, rapidly growing environment. You will leverage your accounting, AI, and technical expertise to build intelligent solutions that enhance Stripe's accounting capabilities, automate complex workflows, and provide actionable insights within a framework of financial reporting control.
Responsibilities
- Apply accounting and finance domain expertise to identify, explore, and prototype high-impact opportunities where AI can solve complex accounting challenges.
- Build AI-powered tools and artificial intelligence solutions to automate accounting workflows, enhance controllership, and scale operations.
- Design and deploy autonomous AI agents using frameworks that can reason, plan, and execute complex multi-step problems and enhance decision-making processes through understanding risk and maintaining effective financial reporting controls.
- Ship and maintain interactive data products and self-service analytics tools using SQL and Python frameworks (data visualization and dashboards, low-code application building frameworks) that provide real-time insights and actionable intelligence.
- Work across Accounting and partner teams to uncover efficiency opportunities, including AI use cases, document requirements, and translate complex financial workflows into well-controlled technical solutions.
- Partner with Accounting and SOX teams to assess and develop an effective internal controls approach to AI-based accounting solutions.
Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant experience, including 4+ years in accounting-related or adjacent roles (e.g., finance systems, process improvement).
- Experience with internal controls, including design, implementation, and execution.
- Familiarity with the payments industry and fintech landscape.
Skills
- Advanced proficiency in SQL, including complex queries, CTEs, window functions, and joins.
- Familiarity with modern data tools such as Python, Databricks, and ETL and ELT data pipelines.
- Comprehensive understanding of AI fundamentals and experience with emerging AI and LLM tools, conversational interfaces, prompt engineering, or automation platforms and RPA.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, including the ability to convey financial concepts to financial and non-financial audiences, with a solution- and results-oriented mindset focused on delivering impact.
Experience Level
- 10+ years of relevant experience
- 4+ years in accounting-related or adjacent roles
Education Level
- B.A. or B.S. degree in Accounting, Finance, Finance Systems, or Information Systems
About the Company
- 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.
- This role offers an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.
