# Financial Analyst, Business F&S

**Company:** [Stripe](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/stripe)
**Location:** Bengaluru, India
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** FP&A, Corporate Finance, Financial Reporting, Financial Modeling, Anaplan, Workday, Oracle, Excel, Google Sheets, SQL, Tableau, Looker, Hubble, Headcount Analytics, Budget Forecasting
**Posted:** 2026-08-06

> Builds and scales FP&A reporting, headcount analytics, budgeting, forecasting, and process automation for Group Business Finance & Strategy. The role requires 7–14 years of progressive finance experience, strong modeling skills, and the ability to communicate financial insights to senior leaders.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

### Reporting and Analytics
- Own monthly and quarterly reporting packages for Group Business Finance & Strategy, including headcount actuals, opex budget-versus-actual analysis, forecast variance commentary, and trend analysis for business and board reviews.
- Design, build, and maintain standardized dashboards and data packs covering financial and workforce health across planning organizations, cost centers, functions, and geographies.
- Own headcount reporting and analytics, tracking actuals, variances, and trends alongside broader financial metrics.
- Establish a single source of truth by driving data integrity across Workday, planning systems, and Oracle; define data-quality standards and resolve discrepancies.
- Translate financial and workforce data into concise narratives that explain variances, surface risks, and connect business trends to financial outcomes.
- Automate and streamline recurring reporting workflows.

### Planning and Forecasting
- Support annual budget and quarterly forecast processes, maintaining financial and headcount models by planning organization and cost center in Anaplan or an equivalent enterprise planning system.
- Take ownership of forecast line items, building bottoms-up models incorporating headcount, operating expenses, requisitions, backfill decisions, attrition assumptions, and hire-ahead activity.
- Build scenario models to assess the financial and operational impact of business and workforce decisions.

### Process Excellence and Standardization
- Document and standardize reporting and planning processes through SOPs, data dictionaries, and process playbooks.
- Identify workflow inefficiencies and drive automation initiatives that reduce cycle time and improve output quality.
- Champion process improvement opportunities within F&S Bengaluru.
- Mentor and guide junior analysts on reporting standards, analytical rigor, and process discipline.

## Requirements
- 7–14 years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or financial analysis, including financial reporting, planning, and process standardization.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
- Strong FP&A fundamentals, including ownership of reporting cycles, financial models, budgets, and forecasts.
- Experience building and standardizing reporting processes and automating manual or fragmented workflows.
- Experience in headcount reporting and workforce analytics.
- Command of enterprise planning systems such as Anaplan or an equivalent tool; working knowledge of Workday for position and people data is advantageous.
- Advanced Excel and Google Sheets skills, including integrated model design, scenario modeling, and large-dataset manipulation.
- Ability to translate complex financial and workforce data into clear narratives for senior leaders.
- Strong process orientation and attention to detail.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including collaboration across time zones and with US-based counterparts.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Finance & Strategy, FP&A, or corporate finance experience at a high-growth technology or fintech company.
- Hands-on experience building and configuring Anaplan or equivalent enterprise planning models.
- Proficiency in SQL or data visualization tools such as Tableau, Looker, or Hubble.
- Familiarity with payroll-to-finance reconciliation, headcount-to-operating-expense bridging, and workforce impacts on the P&L.
- Experience leading process standardization or automation initiatives within FP&A or centralized finance.
- Exposure to company-wide annual planning processes.

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