About this role
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
As our user base and global footprint grow dramatically, we have unique support problems resulting from both our type of scale and the type of businesses we partner with. The Bangalore Finance (SDC) strategy will provide operational leverage and expand our portfolio of operational capabilities to support the scaled needs for external users and internal Stripe teams.
What you'll do
Joining the Finance team will put you amongst some of the most talented finance and operations leaders in the world. We're looking for a proven leader to build and lead the fast-growing International Accounting team within our Bangalore Finance. The International Accounting Manager for the Controllership function will supervise and evaluate a number of legal entity controllership processes and have experience implementing new systems and tools. This position will suit a person who is a hands-on manager and excited to assist in managing the monthly close, statistical reporting, compliances, coordinating with the board to adopt and approve financial statements, indirect tax filings, cash flow forecasting, intercompany accounting, statutory reporting, consolidation, and audits of all our international subsidiaries and branches. Based in the Bangalore office, you'll be on the ground floor of this function with an opportunity to set the pace and direction for the future.
Responsibilities
• Build, develop, and lead a team that drives the International Accounting Controllership function based out of Bangalore Finance
• Perform and drive 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
• Identify potential inefficiencies in existing processes and propose improvements
• Participate in building scalable accounting processes, establish measures of success, set benchmarks, and improve timelines and efficiencies to support global growth
• Partner with Billing, Internal Systems, Treasury, Tax, and Legal to investigate issues that arise during reporting cycles
• Define and execute internal control documentation and sign-off procedures including the country-prescribed regulatory frameworks (ICFR, SOX, GFS, etc.)
• Enhance and maintain existing accounting policy and procedural documentation
• Drive end-to-end improvement of input processes to enable scale and productivity
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