Finance & Strategy Lead, Payments Product

Stripe Stripe · Fintech · United States · 6448 Payments & Risk F&S

Stripe is seeking a seasoned finance leader to partner with product and engineering leads for Agentic Commerce. This role will act as a trusted financial and strategic advisor, developing frameworks for assessing the evolving landscape, identifying growth areas, and driving investment frameworks. The individual will build analytical infrastructure leveraging AI and tooling to improve insight delivery and identify opportunities for AI and automation in financial analysis. The role requires strong analytical capabilities, business acumen, presentation skills, and the ability to manage ambiguity in a fast-moving environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Act as a financial and strategic advisor to the business, building investment cases and business plans, and evaluating business performance.
  2. Create executive-ready presentations that tell the “investor narrative” taking into account internal data as well as external resources
  3. Support new business / product launches, helping drive strategy and decision-making by bringing rigorous driver-based financial analyses / frameworks and product and industry expertise to help product leaders evaluate tradeoffs and shape strategic roadmaps.
  4. As the business matures, establish and maintain key business metrics and KPIs to measure performance of new products.
  5. Lead the quarterly forecast and annual strategic financial planning process.

Skills

Required

  • strategic finance
  • high-growth technology company experience
  • hedge funds, sell-side, or VC experience
  • strong analytical background
  • investment banking
  • B.A. or B.S degree in related field
  • Exceptional analytical capabilities
  • business acumen
  • Ability to simplify and distill complex information
  • Ability to create polished, executive- and investor-ready presentations
  • Broad exposure to multiple industries and sectors
  • Proven ability to build strong collaborative working relationships with business partners and executives
  • enthusiastic self-starter
  • roll up your sleeves mentality
  • Ability to manage multiple work streams
  • maintain high performance under tight timelines
  • Ability to deal effectively with ambiguity
  • thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment
  • Experience with SQL or a willingness to learn
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Nice to have

  • experience in technology, SaaS, or AI is a plus
  • Deep understanding of payment and card networks economics
  • Experience as a finance business partner supporting a partnerships or deal-making function

What the JD emphasized

  • At least 10+ years of relevant experience within strategic finance, ideally at a high-growth technology company and/or with prior experience in hedge funds, sell-side, or VC with strong analytical background (i.e. investment banking)
  • Exceptional analytical capabilities and business acumen, with the ability to simplify and distill complex information in a rigorous but consumable way
  • Ability to create polished, executive- and investor-ready presentations that communicate complex narratives clearly and concisely with high impact
  • Ability to deal effectively with ambiguity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment