# Manager - Legal Entity Controller

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** Bengaluru, India
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** US GAAP, Excel, Financial Reporting, Accounting, Internal Controls, Sox, Icfr, Gfs, Audit, Statutory Reporting, Intercompany Accounting, Financial Consolidation, Cash Flow Forecasting, Process Automation, Lean Practices
**Posted:** 2026-08-06

> Leads Stripe’s international legal-entity controllership function in Bengaluru, overseeing close, reporting, controls, compliance, audits, and process improvement. The role requires 12–15+ years of accounting experience, team leadership in multinational environments, and strong US GAAP expertise.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Build, develop, and lead a team driving the International Accounting Controllership function based out of Bangalore Finance.
- Perform and drive monthly and quarterly close activities, including manual journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, variance analyses, analytical reviews, internal management reporting, and external audit support.
- Identify inefficiencies in existing processes and propose improvements.
- Build scalable accounting processes, establish success measures and benchmarks, and improve timelines and efficiencies to support global growth.
- Partner with Billing, Internal Systems, Treasury, Tax, and Legal to investigate issues during reporting cycles.
- Define and execute internal control documentation and sign-off procedures, including country-prescribed regulatory frameworks such as ICFR, SOX, and GFS.
- Enhance and maintain accounting policy and procedural documentation.
- Improve input processes end to end to enable scale and productivity.
- Develop and improve process metrics using automation, lean practices, and process optimization.
- Create global best-practice documentation and facilitate knowledge sharing.
- Provide feedback on process health and performance, remediate errors, and improve scalability.
- Partner with global process owners and functional leaders to drive consistent performance and continuous improvement.
- Lead cross-functional projects and reporting that improve performance, visibility, and automation across financial services.

## Requirements

- Demonstrated knowledge of business financial metrics, reporting inputs, and communicating key performance indicators to stakeholders.
- Advanced finance operations experience leading large operational processes.
- Ability to set goals and financial plans and influence leaders across the organization.
- Exposure to audit, accounting, and risk reviews at a large public accounting firm.
- 12–15+ years of relevant public accounting and industry experience.
- Experience leading accounting teams in a multi-location, multicultural environment.
- M.Com in Accounting or Finance; Chartered Accountant or CPA strongly preferred.
- Strong understanding of and hands-on experience with US GAAP.
- Excellent written, verbal, communication, and organizational skills.
- Strong knowledge of Excel and experience working with large data sets.
- Experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a STEM field; MBA preferred.

## Nice-to-haves

- Experience building and scaling new teams from zero.
- Strong operational background, including launching new processes and delivering services in a high-growth technology company.
- Experience communicating technical and non-technical topics to senior leadership.
- Proficiency obtaining, organizing, and analyzing data to support fact-based decisions, root cause analysis, and outcome evaluation.

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