Finance & Strategy Partner, Core Engineering (Hybrid/Remote)

Stripe; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 134,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe is seeking a Finance and Strategy Partner to join the Infrastructure Finance and Strategy team. You will help forecast, budget, and report on AI investments, including token spend and engineering headcount, collaborating with data science, engineering, and finance teams to improve integrated financial systems and metrics.

You will design rigorous analyses, build models, and drive ROI measurement for headcount and non-headcount investments, shaping Stripe's productivity and cost-efficiency

Qualifications

• 7–9 years of experience in strategic finance or FP&A.
• Experience driving finance processes (budget, forecast, headcount envelope).
• Experience using AI tools to develop data visualizations and explore datasets.
• Fluency in AI cost drivers and metrics, including token caching, reads, and writes, model selection principles, and billing.
• Deep understanding of expense accounting principles including accruals, amortization, and capitalization.

Responsibilities

• Leverage your financial background to support and influence key strategic and business decisions.
• Be your business teams' financial partner for analysis and evaluation of strategic projects and initiatives (e.g. foundational investments or business model shifts).
• Design and provide analytical rigor to measure efficiency and ROI of investments in headcount and non-headcount expenses.
• Drive reporting, process, and discipline for finance routines to shape and influence decision-making (e.g. budget, forecast, monthly reviews, long-range plans).
• Build and own models for in-depth analyses, as well as ensure their quality, timeliness, and accuracy.
• Partner with cross-functional teams, such as Finance Systems, Data Science, and Infrastructure Engineering, to develop reporting dashboards.
• Drive continuous process improvement, standardization, simplification, and reporting enhancements.

Skills

Strategic finance

FP&A

AI tools

Cost drivers

Expense accounting

Tools

Oracle

Anaplan

Claude Code

Codex

Cursor

Job description

Stripe is seeking a Finance and Strategy Partner to join the Infrastructure Finance and Strategy team. You will help forecast, budget, and report on AI investments, including token spend and engineering headcount, collaborating with data science, engineering, and finance teams to improve integrated financial systems and metrics.

You will design rigorous analyses, build models, and drive ROI measurement for headcount and non-headcount investments, shaping Stripe's productivity and cost-efficiency