Strategy & Analytics Business Partner Analyst

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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. Stripe’s mission is to increase the GDP of the internet and put the global economy within everyone’s reach.

About the Team

Strategy & Analytics maximizes and accelerates Operations' ability to make Stripe work for its users. The team works cross-functionally with global teams to run the day-to-day business and define and achieve long-term, high-effort, high-value strategic priorities. It combines strategy and analytics to help Operations leaders solve complex problems while driving business planning and operational cadence from strategy and goal-setting through execution.

What You’ll Do

In this role, you’ll be the go-to expert for your business area. You’ll deliver critical insights, ensure data-driven decision-making, and partner with leadership to drive business strategy, planning, goal-setting, and performance tracking. You may also scope and lead mission-critical projects and execute strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Metrics and insights: Work with large, highly complex datasets using SQL to produce actionable insights and become the data expert for your business area. Develop metrics and large-scale dashboards to track the health of user-facing and internal teams. Perform analyses using SQL and other analytical tools or languages, identify trends, conduct research, and build models to provide objective insights on opportunities, risks, and strategic priorities.
• Executive communication: Create narratives and documents that explain the story of your business area and influence decision-making by senior Operations leaders and the Stripe executive team.
• Stakeholder management: Influence and drive cross-functional change by partnering with stakeholders across globally distributed teams, including Operations, Finance, Data Science, Product, and Engineering.
• Operational excellence: Design, optimize, and drive operational reviews and the rhythm of the business. Guide planning and goal-setting for your business area and conduct progress checks throughout the year. Apply a return-on-investment lens to operational decisions to support informed trade-offs.
• Planning support: Support forecasting and planning processes for Financial Crimes, including near-, medium-, and long-term planning, to enable strategic decision-making.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in analytical and strategic roles in management consulting, Operations, Support, Risk, or Financial Services.
• Outstanding analytical ability, expert SQL skills, and an understanding of data relationships.
• Outstanding communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working in or with Operations, Support, Risk, Trust & Safety, Financial Crimes, or Financial Services.
• Expertise working cross-functionally and with globally distributed teams to drive business and operational goals using data.
• Ability to connect the big picture to minute details, switching between them to set and operationalize strategy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in fast-paced environments, such as high-growth internet or software companies or management consulting.
• Structured problem-solving skills combined with strong business acumen.
• Experience with Tableau.