Financial Analyst, Business F&S
Stripe•4h ago
BengaluruOnsiteFull-timeMid Level7+ yrs exp
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Financial AnalystBusiness Analyst
- 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
- accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet
- 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 (F&S) team serves as the strategic engine and financial steward of Stripe's businesses, connecting financial rigour with business judgment to drive sound capital allocation and accountability across the company.
- The Group Business Finance & Strategy team partners with some of Stripe's largest internal business organizations, driving planning, investment prioritization
- operational discipline across headcount and non-headcount spend. The team is responsible for financial reporting, business performance management
- driving the planning and forecasting processes that enable sound decision-making at the most senior levels of the organization.
- This role sits within F&S Bengaluru, a high-impact team whose mission is to enable F&S to "Grow for Free", driving process efficiency, centralization
- resource optimization so that senior F&S partners can focus on higher-order strategic work.
- About the Role
- We are hiring a Financial Analyst for Group Business F&S to build, standardize
- scale the reporting, planning
- process excellence functions that support Group Business Finance & Strategy. This role covers the full spectrum of Group Business F&S financial operations including headcount reporting and analytics, month end close accruals, opex reporting and BvA, business review preparation
- forward-looking planning cycles.
- The immediate and primary mandate is to establish a clean, consistent
- automated reporting foundation across Group Business F&S, bringing discipline and rigor to how financial and workforce data is tracked, packaged
- presented to F&S leadership.
- This is a strong FP&A and Corporate Finance profile. You thrive in building structured processes from the ground up, have a sharp eye for data quality
- bring a standardization and automation-first mindset to everything you touch. You are comfortable working independently, managing a large volume of recurring deliverables with accuracy and timeliness
- continuously improving the processes behind them.
- As you establish the reporting foundation, you will have the opportunity to take on broader scope including owning forecast line items, driving planning cycle inputs
- contributing to more strategic finance work within Group Business F&S.
- What You'll Do
- Reporting and Analytics:
- Own end-to-end delivery of the monthly and quarterly reporting packages for Group Business F&S, including headcount actuals, opex BvA (budget vs. actual), forecast variance commentary
- trend analysis for MBRs, RTBRs
- maintain standardized dashboards and data packs that give F&S leadership a clear, consistent
- audit-ready view of Group Business F&S financial and workforce health across planning orgs, cost centers, functions
- Own headcount reporting and analytics as a core component of the Group Business F&S reporting suite, tracking HC actuals, variances, and trends alongside broader financial metrics
- Establish a single source of truth for Group Business F&S data by driving cross-system integrity across Workday, planning systems, and Oracle, defining data quality standards and owning resolution of discrepancies
- Translate financial and workforce data into clear, concise narratives that explain variances, surface risks, and connect business trends to financial outcomes for senior leaders
- Automate and streamline recurring reporting workflows, eliminating manual steps and building for scale and consistency
- Planning and Forecasting: Strategic Ownership
- Support the annual budget and quarterly forecast processes for Group Business F&S, maintaining and updating financial and HC models by planning org and cost center in Anaplan or any other enterprise planning system
- Over time, take ownership of specific forecast line items within Group Business F&S, building bottoms-up models that incorporate headcount, opex, requisitions, backfill decisions, attrition assumptions, and hire-ahead activity
- Build scenario models to support F&S leadership in assessing the financial and operational impact of business and workforce decisions across Group Business F&S
- Process Excellence and Standardization
- Lead the documentation and standardization of reporting and planning processes across Group Business F&S, building SOPs, data dictionaries, and process playbooks that ensure consistency, continuity, and auditability
- Identify inefficiencies across reporting and planning workflows and drive automation initiatives that reduce cycle time and improve output quality
- Champion process improvement opportunities within F&S Bengaluru, bringing proposals to F&S leadership for prioritization and resourcing
- Mentor and guide junior analysts in F&S Bengaluru on reporting standards, analytical rigor, and process discipline
- Who You Are
- We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements listed below. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
- Minimum Requirements
- 7–14 years of progressive experience in FP&A, Corporate Finance, or financial analysis, with meaningful hands-on experience in financial reporting, planning, and process standardization
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field
- Strong FP&A fundamentals: you have owned reporting cycles, built and maintained financial models, and managed budget and forecast processes with precision and without supervision
- Proven track record of building and standardizing reporting processes, with a demonstrated ability to bring structure, consistency, and automation to previously manual or fragmented workflows
- Experience in headcount reporting and workforce analytics as part of a broader FP&A or Corporate Finance remit
- Command of enterprise planning systems such as Anaplan or any equivalent tool for financial and headcount planning; working knowledge of Workday for position and people data is an advantage
- Advanced Excel and Google Sheets skills, including integrated model design, scenario modeling, and large-dataset manipulation
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex financial and workforce data into clear, concise narratives for senior leaders
- Strong process orientation with a history of building scalable, structured processes in ambiguous or resource-constrained environments
- High attention to detail with the discipline to maintain accuracy across high-volume, recurring deliverables under tight deadlines
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work effectively across time zones and with US-based counterparts
- Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in a Finance & Strategy, FP&A, or Corporate Finance function at a high-growth technology or fintech company
- Hands-on experience building planning models in Anaplan or any other enterprise planning system (model design and configuration, not just data entry)
- Proficiency in SQL or data visualization tools (Tableau, Looker, Hubble, or similar) for building self-service reporting and analytics
- Familiarity with payroll-to-finance reconciliation, headcount-to-opex bridging, and how HC flows into the P&L
- Experience leading process standardization or automation initiatives within an FP&A or centralized finance team
- Exposure to company-wide planning processes including annual planning cycles, board reporting, and forecast submissions
- MBA or professional certifications (CA, CMA, CFA, CPA, CPIM etc.)
Required skills
FP&ACorporate FinanceAnaplanOracleWorkday