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. Develop AI-powered tools, autonomous agents, and data products to automate workflows and provide actionable insights within a framework of financial reporting control. Collaborate with engineering and finance teams to deploy cutting-edge AI applications.
Responsibilities
- Apply accounting and finance domain expertise to identify, explore, and prototype high-impact opportunities where AI can solve complex accounting challenges.
- Build using 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, with at least 4+ years of experience in accounting related or adjacent roles (e.g. finance systems, process improvement).
- B.A. or B.S degree in Accounting, Finance, Finance Systems or Information Systems.
- Fluency in U.S. GAAP.
- Advanced proficiency in SQL, including writing complex queries, using CTEs (common table expressions), window functions, and joins for data analysis and pipeline logic.
- Familiarity with modern data tools (Python, Databricks, ETL/ELT processes, data pipelines) and coding with AI assistance.
- Comprehensive understanding of AI fundamentals and experience with emerging AI/LLM tools, conversational interfaces, prompt engineering, or automation platforms and RPA.
- Solution and results-oriented, with a focus on delivering impact in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to convey financial concepts to both financial and non-financial audiences.
- Experience with internal controls (design, implementation and execution).
Skills
- Accounting
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Technical Expertise
- AI-powered tools
- Autonomous agents
- Data products
- Financial reporting control
- Product development
- SQL
- Python
- Data visualization
- Dashboards
- Low-code application building
- Internal controls
- Payments industry
- Fintech landscape
Experience Level
- 10+ years of relevant experience
- 4+ years of experience 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.
