Accounting Technical Solutions Lead

About the role

The Accounting Team is responsible for understanding and telling Stripe's financial story and shaping our collective understanding of how Stripe is performing as a business. Our primary focus is maintaining a well-controlled environment that effectively supports corporate governance, financial reporting and disclosure requirements. We advise and enable Stripe to grow—supporting all products at Stripe, consulting on accounting implications and supporting teams' ability to make informed strategic decisions. We operate in a fast-paced environment and collaborate significantly with cross-functional and international teams.

Responsibilities

• Apply your accounting and finance domain expertise to identify, explore, and prototype high-impact opportunities where AI can solve complex accounting challenges
• Build using AI-powered tools and artificial intelligence solutions to automate accounting workflows, enhance controllership, and scale our operations
• Design and deploy autonomous AI agents using frameworks that can reason, plan, and execute complex multi-step problems and enhance decision-making processes through understanding risk and maintaining effective financial reporting controls
• Ship and maintain interactive data products and self-service analytics tools using SQL and Python frameworks (data visualization and dashboards, low-code application building frameworks) that provide real-time insights and actionable intelligence
• Work across Accounting and partner teams to uncover efficiency opportunities, including AI use cases, document requirements, and translate complex financial workflows into well-controlled technical solutions
• Partner with Accounting and SOX teams to assess and develop an effective internal controls approach to AI-based accounting solutions

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience, including 4+ years in accounting-related or adjacent roles (e.g., finance systems, process improvement)
• A B.A. or B.S. degree in Accounting, Finance, Finance Systems, or Information Systems
• Fluency in U.S. GAAP
• Advanced proficiency in SQL, including complex queries, CTEs, window functions, and joins
• Familiarity with modern data tools such as Python, Databricks, and ETL and ELT data pipelines
• Comprehensive understanding of AI fundamentals and experience with emerging AI and LLM tools, conversational interfaces, prompt engineering, or automation platforms and RPA
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, including the ability to convey financial concepts to financial and non-financial audiences
• Experience with internal controls, including design, implementation, and execution
• Familiarity with the payments industry and fintech landscape

Qualifications

• Experience with internal controls, including design, implementation, and execution
• Familiarity with the payments industry and fintech landscape

Benefits

• Annual US base salary range: $165,900 - $248,900
• Equity
• Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses
• 401(k) plan
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Wellness stipends

Pay

• On Target Earnings ("OTE") range for sales roles

Schedule

• Office-assigned Stripes in most of our locations are currently expected to spend at least 50% of the time in a given month in their local office or with users.