Finance & Strategy Lead, LATAM

Job Description

Stripe’s mission is to increase the GDP of the internet. We build the most powerful and flexible tools for running an internet business. We handle billions of dollars each year and enable millions of users around the world to scale faster and more efficiently by building their businesses on Stripe.

In order to capitalize on that opportunity we need to balance investing aggressively and operating with financial discipline. The Finance & Strategy team is at the forefront of how we balance that equation. We are the strategic engine that drives rigorous decision making and acts as the financial stewards of Stripe’s businesses. In this role, you will be instrumental in defining Stripe’s financial and business aspirations and realizing its potential by helping to build the Stripe LATAM business, providing deep business insights, and strategic perspective to Stripe’s international business. Your work will be visible to Stripe leadership through deep partnership with organizations across the company.

You will:

• Partner with our Latin American leadership to drive the success of Stripe’s regional strategy by combining deep knowledge and understanding of Stripe’s business and value chain with financial and business metrics to help guide strategy and resource allocation
• Apply an analytical approach to support strategic decisions and communicate actionable insights to relevant stakeholders
• Conduct business reviews regularly with business partners to analyze and report the performance of the financial decisions implemented across the region.
• Support the business strategy and business planning (including long range planning) and lead financial planning and budgeting for the region, with considered business cases for investment and efficient allocation of resources
• Be instrumental in defining pricing of Stripe’s products in the region
• Prepare business cases for possible expansion in the region to new countries and new user segments
• Build and own financial forecast models, including scenario and ad-hoc models for in-depth analyses as well as ensure their quality, timeliness and accuracy
• Build partnerships with Go-to-Market, Product, Engineering, and other organizations

You have:

• Experience in a commercial finance function, preferably partnering to build a business, either as a start up CFO or experience building a successful LATAM business for a technology or banking business based outside LATAM
• Background in strategic finance at a technology company, private equity, management consulting or comparable
• Experience in navigating complex organizations, influencing key stakeholders, and advocating for a business based on sound guiding principles and thoughtful business cases
• An ability to build strong collaborative relationships with business leads and to build strong networks with finance and other functional teams across the company
• The ability to be a self-starter capable of dealing effectively with ambiguity and thriving in a fast-moving environment
• The ability to maintain performance under tight timelines and an enthusiastic ‘roll up your sleeves’ mentality
• Excellent influencing, storytelling, verbal, and written communication skills
• Bring deep analytical rigor to decisions and make recommendations based on data-based insights - Experience building financial models (in Excel or other planning applications) and ability to understand how their outputs are shaped by business drivers

Nice to haves:

• Financial planning and analysis experience with exposure to key management processes at a high growth, scaling company
• Understanding of and experience with card networks, payment-related products, or other financial services
• Regional experience in one of Latin America’s tech markets