Financial Risk Specialist
Stripe
Who we are
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
At its core, Stripe is a treasury company. We fulfill our mission of growing the online economy by empowering our users to move money to and from their own user constituents, and to understand and optimize these flows. In this way, our treasury is inextricably intertwined with our products. In order to continue to build novel and powerful products for our users, our own treasury capabilities, including financial risk management capabilities, must be excellent.
Treasury’s Capital & Financial Risk Management (CFRM) team The Capital and Financial Risk Management team sets Stripe’s financial risk strategy and develops analytical tools to promote risk-aware allocation of our resources ensuring that Stripe has sufficient capital and liquidity to support our users in all operating conditions. We also collaborate closely with product, data science, and other finance teams to shape our understanding of how Stripe is performing as a business and what our best opportunities are for continued growth. We are looking for someone to join us to work alongside our business partners and our world-class engineers.
What you’ll do
To support Stripe’s growth, we're looking for a stellar candidate to join our NYC-based team. The Financial Risk Specialist will help shape Stripe’s management of capital, liquidity and financial risk factors, building deep knowledge of Stripe’s product and business profile to help shape our approach to managing and mitigating the resulting risks to our performance. The ideal candidate will have strong technical and interpersonal skills, combined with the ability to work across product, partnerships, data science, legal/regulatory, and engineering teams, and will drive productive collaboration across areas.
If you are passionate about risk-centered financial management and driving analytical outcomes central to Stripe’s decision-making and strategy, we want to hear from you!
Responsibilities
- Shape and help run models that underpin Stripe’s capital, liquidity, and financial risk management programs
- Contribute to development of our risk-based pricing frameworks and related decision-making toolkits
- Collaborate across CFRM pillars and other areas of TFIN to ensure our deliverables against core objectives and key results remain on target
- Further build out our financial risk governance tools and metrics, including board-, management-, and team-level key risk indicators and early warning signals
- Establish observability for core team metrics; build and enhance internal dashboards
- Work with data science and engineering teams to develop tooling, observability, and analytics to support these efforts
Who you are
We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Minimum requirements
- 5+ years of experience in one or more of: Corporate Treasury, financial markets trading/analysis, financial risk management, and capital/liquidity risk management
- A proven ability to integrate fundamental analysis with applied risk management foundations, either in a capital markets or broader financial services context
- Track record of strong self-management and ability to handle both high-velocity, short-term deliverables while also progressing longer-term strategic objectives
- Demonstrated curiosity, resilience, problem-solving skills, and desire to contribute to a high-functioning team operating in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Preferred qualifications
- An enthusiastic “roll up your sleeves” and get things done mindset
- The ability to deal effectively with ambiguity and thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving environment
- An inclination to solve problems systematically via infrastructure, automation, and repeatable frameworks
- A builder's mindset with a willingness to question assumptions and conventional wisdom
- Experience with SQL or a willingness to learn is a strong plus
The annual US base salary range for this role is $132,000 - $198,000. For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role. This salary range may be inclusive of several career levels at Stripe and will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of factors, including the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and location. Applicants interested in this role and who are not located in the US may request the annual salary range for their location during the interview process.
Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends.