What you'll doStripe handles billions of dollars every year for businesses around the world, and the Risk team plays a critical role in the company's financial and partnership success. As a Credit Analyst Underwriter on the North America Strategy Risk team, you will underwrite and manage a portfolio of our largest and fastest growing businesses in order to facilitate Stripe's growth objectives while minimizing Stripe's credit risk. This is a high impact role that involves strong cross-functional partnership with Sales, Legal, Treasury, and Finance.
Responsibilities- Work directly with our top merchants, from successful venture-backed startups to well-established institutions, to evaluate their business models and financial statements.
- Provide tailored credit risk recommendations that mitigate Stripe's exposure, while facilitating partner company growth.
- Help manage the portfolio by developing a deep understanding of risk across industries, geographies, and operating models.
- Deliver insights to support senior management decisions, ranging from onboarding strategies to merchant pricing analysis.
- Support the refinement of tools and processes to help the team deliver on key performance indicators, such as credit loss targets or portfolio coverage metrics.
- Work with internal and external partners to support merchants around the world.
Who you areWe'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- 3+ years of relevant experience with knowledge of commercial credit underwriting, financial risk modeling, and cash flow forecasting
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Statistics, or other related fields
- Strong knowledge of accounting principles and comfort evaluating financial statements and business models across a range of industries
- Ability to transform business and financial data into cohesive narratives that outline potential credit risks and present dynamic mitigation strategies
- Strong written, verbal, and analytical skills
- Attention to detail while managing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to comfortably interact with the CFOs and CEOs of our top merchants
- Deep empathy for entrepreneurs running a business and motivation to solve problems to empower them
Preferred qualifications- Strong technical expertise, including demonstrated experience with SQL
- Strong data visualization skills and a passion for data and analysis
- Experience working in tech or other fast-paced, high-growth environments
