Head of Money Management, Finance & Strategy

Stripe · Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Chicago · Posted

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

The Finance & Strategy team is a key thought partner to Stripe’s product leaders. We bring financial rigor, strategic clarity, and analytical depth to the decisions that shape Stripe’s product portfolio and long-term growth strategy.

Money Management is building an integrated financial operating system for businesses and platforms. The portfolio helps customers receive, store, convert, send, spend, and finance money through Stripe, giving them greater access to liquidity, control over their finances, and the ability to operate more easily across borders. Products span Payouts, FX, Treasury, Capital and Issuing. The Money Management F&S team partners with product leaders to shape this portfolio’s strategy, growth, investment priorities, and financial performance as it scales.

What you’ll do

We're seeking a seasoned finance leader to lead our Money Management F&S team. You’ll partner with Money Management product leaders, acting as a trusted financial and strategic advisor. You’ll lead a team that delivers the revenue forecasting, pricing and unit economic analysis, investment frameworks and strategic insights that enable the portfolio to scale. You’ll translate complex financial analysis into clear insights for senior leadership. You’ll build the analytical infrastructure, including leveraging AI and tooling, to ensure this team delivers best-in-class financial insights and analysis.

Responsibilities

  • Own revenue forecasting and performance management across Money Management, including volume trends and unit economics. Develop and maintain integrated financial models that reflect underlying product drivers.
  • Establish and maintain key business metrics and KPIs to measure performance of new and existing products. Present performance in business forums, highlighting drivers, risks and actionable insights.
  • Drive strategy and decision-making by bringing rigorous financial analysis and product and industry expertise to help product leaders evaluate tradeoffs and shape strategic roadmaps.
  • Lead the quarterly forecast and annual strategic financial planning process. Develop long range financial models with scenario analysis and actionable recommendations on growth, monetization and where to prioritize investments.
  • Serve as a key contributor to key business reviews and leadership forums, translating complex product economics into clear insights for executive audiences.
  • Build, lead and develop a high performing team of finance & strategy partners. Align and scale the team to support product growth.
  • Drive process improvement and analytics scalability, partnering cross-functionally to evolve data infrastructure, reporting and analytics. Identify opportunities to leverage AI and automation to enable the team to operate at the leading edge of financial analysis.

Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

  • 15+ years of relevant experience in product finance, strategic finance or FP&A, preferably at a high growth payments, fintech, marketplace/platform, or enterprise SaaS business
  • Deep experience in revenue-oriented financial modeling (e.g. pricing analysis, unit economics, volume/take-rate forecasting, deal economics) with the ability to architect complex, integrated models
  • A proven track record of partnering with senior product or business leaders, translating complex financial data into clear and compelling narratives, and influencing strategic decisions through financial analysis and insights
  • Demonstrated success building and leading high-performing finance teams (including hiring, developing, and retaining top talent) while serving as a hands-on player-coach
  • Comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and an ability to create structure and clarity
  • Working knowledge of SQL and comfort working with large, complex datasets
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience preparing materials for and presenting to senior leaders

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience in or exposure to Money Movement and Embedded Finance products (e.g. Payouts, Treasury, Capital, Issuing)
  • Experience working closely with different Finance functions (e.g. Accounting, Tax, Treasury, IR)
  • Familiarity with leveraging AI/ML tools to enhance and automate financial analysis. Experience working with Python, Anaplan, Tableau, or equivalent tools is a plus
  • Experience in a high-growth, rapidly scaling environment

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About this role

Stripe is hiring for the role of Head of Money Management, Finance & Strategy in Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Chicago. The title points to a leadership role. The posting asks for about 15+ years of experience. It mentions Python, SQL, Machine learning, Tableau, Product roadmap and Communication and more.

Skills mentioned

  • Python
  • SQL
  • Machine learning
  • Tableau
  • Product roadmap
  • Communication
  • Leadership

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