At a glance
- Experience
- 8+ years experience
- Location
- SEA, SF · US
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 role
- Stripe is seeking a SOX Business Process Controls Specialist to join its internal controls team within the Chief Accounting Organization.
- The role involves designing, implementing, and monitoring controls to address financial reporting risks while working closely with engineers and business leaders.
Responsibilities
- Develop, lead, and execute periodic financial risk assessments, materiality calculations, and scoping of the SOX program
- Collaborate cross functionally to design leading edge practices with a financial compliance mindset across several complex business process areas
- Conduct walkthroughs across all business process areas and work with business process owners to ensure timely review and updates to the control documentation
- Provide financial internal control guidance in the development and enhancement of financial and operational processes
- Monitor and assess emerging financial reporting risks with the growth and evolution of the business and develop plans to implement appropriate controls to timely address these emerging risks
- Provide reporting to business leaders on program status, health, and effectiveness of the business process control environment
- Collaborate and align with the company’s external audit around financial reporting risks and SOX program approach
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Information Systems, Finance, or related field
- Technical certification required (e.g., CPA, CIA, CISA, PMP)
- 8+ years of work experience in managing and/or assessing SOX programs
- Big 4 audit firm or equivalent audit experience
- Developed expertise and extensive experience with leading and performing SOX business process program design, control implementation, and monitoring of SOX program
- Strong knowledge of technical accounting, order to cash, and financial close & reporting controls
- Strong communication skills, including presenting to and influencing senior business leaders
- Demonstrated success managing concurrent workstreams/projects independently
Preferred qualifications
- Master’s degree in Accounting, Information Systems, Finance, or related field
- Experience in implementing internal controls in early stage public companies
- Experience with an online payments company, ecommerce, SaaS, Payments, Fintech or Financial Services industries
- Experience working with JIRA and AuditBoard
Skills
- SOX
- Internal Controls
- Technical Accounting
- Order To Cash
- Financial Close & Reporting
- JIRA
- AuditBoard
