Strategy & Analytics Analyst

Stripe Stripe · Fintech · India · 4138 SDC - Tech Ops

Stripe is seeking a Strategy & Analytics Analyst to join their Internal Systems and SDC team in India. This role will partner directly with the Head of SDC, acting as the go-to expert for data, insights, and strategy. Responsibilities include wrangling complex datasets with SQL, developing metrics and dashboards, performing analyses to deliver critical insights, communicating with executives, managing stakeholders, driving operational excellence, and supporting planning processes. The ideal candidate has 6+ years of experience in analytical and strategic roles within financial services or related fields, with expertise in SQL and cross-functional collaboration.

What you'd actually do

  1. Metrics & Insights: Wrangle large, highly complex datasets using SQL into actionable insights and become the data expert for your business area. Develop metrics and large-scale dashboards to track the health of our user-facing and internal teams. Perform analyses (using SQL & other analytical tools/languages), identify trends, conduct research, build models, all to deliver objective, critical insights that can inform leadership of opportunities, risks, and strategic priorities.
  2. Communicate with executives: Create narratives and documents that tell the story of your business area to influence senior Operations leadership and Stripe executive team decision making. Own executive-facing weekly, monthly or quarterly reporting.
  3. Stakeholder management: Influence and drive cross-functional change by partnering with stakeholders across a wide internal network of globally distributed teams, including Ops, Finance, Data Science, Product/Engineering, and more
  4. Drive operational excellence: Design, optimize and drive operational reviews and rhythm of the business. Guide the planning and goal-setting process for your business area, as well as progress checks throughout the year. Bring and consistently apply a ROI lens to all operational decisions, so we can make better-informed trade-offs
  5. Support planning: support with forecasting/planning processes for your business area, including near/medium/long-term planning, to enable leadership to make strategic decisions

Skills

Required

  • 6+ years of prior experience in analytical and strategic roles in management consulting, Operations, Support, Risk or Financial Services
  • Outstanding analytical ability, expert in SQL and understanding of data relationships
  • Outstanding communication, presentation skills & stakeholder management skills
  • Experience working in or with Financial Services, Accounting, GTM/Sales, Operations
  • Expertise working cross-functionally and with globally distributed teams to drive business and operational goals using data
  • Ability to connect the big picture to minute details, toggling between them to set and operationalize strategy

Nice to have

  • Experience working in fast-paced environments (e.g. high-growth internet or software company, management consulting)
  • Structured problem solving skills, combined with strong business acumen.
  • Experience with Tableau

What the JD emphasized

  • Outstanding analytical ability
  • expert in SQL
  • Outstanding communication, presentation skills & stakeholder management skills
  • Experience working in or with Financial Services, Accounting, GTM/Sales, Operations
  • Expertise working cross-functionally and with globally distributed teams to drive business and operational goals using data
  • Ability to connect the big picture to minute details, toggling between them to set and operationalize strategy