Data Analyst, Payments

About the role

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. The Payments organization owns critical payment flows and processes hundreds of billions of dollars in payments annually.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate across the company, including engineering, accounting, financial partnerships, and product teams, to analyze billions of dollars moving through the Stripe platform.
• Translate network specifications into implementation instructions to create billing models for new and revised fees (both scheme and interchange).
• Influence product strategy to minimize network costs.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Finance to implement cost-saving opportunities, prioritize investment, and explain cost and margin trends.
• Monitor and maintain the accuracy of the fees through validation and alerting.
• Create fee explainability to internal and external stakeholders and host education sessions for internal teams to scale knowledge.
• Introduce data and process efficiencies to meet the scale and speed of Stripe.
• Identify and automate inefficient operational processes to reduce manual workloads, and scale our network cost operation by driving the design, documentation, and training of operational processes to leverage partner relationships.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Payments at a leading technology or payments company, with the ability to write SQL to query relational databases.
• Experience managing communications and workflows with technical and non-technical teams across internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience navigating the nuanced complexity of financial systems and solving large-scale, technical challenges.
• Strong financial modeling and diagnostic skills to investigate, prioritize, and identify the root cause of issues.
• Experience managing multiple, concurrent work streams, identifying and triaging technical issues, and driving solutions with clear metrics to show impact.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in fast-paced environments (e.g., high-growth fintech or tech company, management consulting).
• Experience mentoring junior team members in technical skill development, operational strategy, and problem solving.
• Experience working with PM, Engineers, finance team, or accounting team.
• Experience handling tickets and adhering to operational targets and metrics.
• Experience with visualization tools.