Financial Analyst, Business F&S

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, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and 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, and operational discipline across headcount and non-headcount spend. The team is responsible for financial reporting, business performance management, and 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, and 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, and scale the reporting, planning, and 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, and forward-looking planning cycles. The immediate and primary mandate is to establish a clean, consistent, and automated reporting foundation across Group Business F&S, bringing discipline and rigor to how financial and workforce data is tracked, packaged, and 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, and 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, and 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, and 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, and trend analysis for MBRs, RTBRs, and board-level reviews • Design, build, and maintain standardized dashboards and data packs that give F&S leadership a clear, consistent, and audit-ready view of Group Business F&S financial and workforce health across planning orgs, cost centers, functions, and geographies • 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.)