Strategy & Analytics Business Partner

<h2><strong>Who we are </strong></h2> <h3><strong>About Stripe</strong></h3> <p>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.</p> <h3><strong>About the team</strong></h3> <p><strong>Strategy &amp; Analytics (S&amp;A) maximizes and accelerates Operations' ability to make Stripe work for our users. We aspire to be the COOs <em>for</em> Stripe Ops, working cross-functionally with global teams to help run the day-to-day business <em>and</em> articulate and achieve the longer term, high effort, high value strategic priorities. We take a data-driven approach that combines strategy, analytics and core data infrastructure to help Ops leaders solve their most complex and most important issues while also driving the business planning and operational cadence end-to-end, from strategy to goal-setting to execution.</strong></p> <h2><strong>What you’ll do</strong></h2> <p>In this role, you’ll be the go-to expert for your business area - in this case, one of our operational teams in our new &amp; fast growing Stripe Delivery Centre in Bangalore. In your role, you’ll be responsible for delivering critical insights, ensuring data driven decision making is at the core of what we do. You’ll also drive the rhythm of the business, partnering with operations leadership to drive business strategy, planning, goal-setting and performance tracking.  You may also scope and lead mission critical projects and execute on strategic initiatives. If you are incessantly curious, a believer in driving action through data, and eager to dive into a quickly-growing company, we want to hear from you.</p> <h3><strong>Responsibilities</strong> </h3> <ul> <li>Lead strategic planning: Design and lead planning processes, including near/medium/long-term planning and associated comms or milestones, for your business area to enable leadership to make strategic decisions - with an aim to improve our automation and efficiency over time</li> <li>Drive operational excellence: Design, optimize and drive operational reviews and rhythm of the business. Guide the planning and goal-setting process for your business area, as well as progress checks throughout the year. Bring and consistently apply a ROI lens to all operational decisions, so we can make better-informed trade-offs. </li> <li>Metrics &amp; Insights: Wrangle large, highly complex datasets into actionable insights and become the data expert for your business area. Develop metrics to track the health of our user-facing and internal teams. Perform analyses, identify trends, conduct research, build models, all to deliver objective, critical insights that can inform leadership of opportunities, risks, and strategic priorities.</li> <li>Manage and lead projects: Initiate, scope and drive cross-functional projects at the org, regional, and global levels to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our operations</li> <li>Communicate with executives: Create narratives and documents that tell the story of your business area to influence senior Operations leadership and Stripe executive team decision making</li> <li>Stakeholder management: Influence and drive cross-functional change by partnering with stakeholders across a wide internal network of globally distributed teams, including Ops, Product/Engineering, Finance, Data Science, and more</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Who you are</strong></h2> <p>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.</p> <h3><strong>Minimum requirements</strong></h3> <ul> <li>10+ years of prior experience in analytical and strategic roles</li> <li>Outstanding analytical ability, proficiency with SQL and understanding of data relationships</li> <li>Good knowledge of statistics and experience working with large datasets</li> <li>Outstanding communication and presentation skills</li> <li>Expertise working cross-functionally and with globally distributed teams to drive business and operational goals using data</li> <li>Project management skills and ability to hold others accountable for results</li> <li>Ability to connect the big picture to minute details, toggling between them to set and operationalize strategy</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Preferred qualifications</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Experience working in fast-paced environments (e.g. high-growth internet or software company, management consulting)</li> <li>Experience working in or with Operations, Sales, Support, or Account Manageme