Data Analyst

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.

The Payments organization owns some of Stripe's most critical payment flows and a platform that processes hundreds of billions of dollars in payments a year. Our team is responsible for translating complex partner specifications related to network costs (interchange and scheme fees) into simplified logic for internal and external consumption.

• 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.
• 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.
• Introduce data and process efficiencies to meet the scale and speed of Stripe. Identify and automate inefficient operational processes.

• 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.

• Preferred qualifications include experience in fast-paced environments, mentoring junior team members, working with PM/Engineers/finance/accounting teams, handling tickets, and using visualization tools.