AP & T&E Manager — Bangalore Finance Operations

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. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an outsized opportunity to shape how the global economy operates.

About Finance Operations

Stripe's Bangalore Finance Operations (BFin) centre is a hub for high-quality financial operations execution. The BFin team partners closely with Stripe's global functional finance leaders — including the global heads of Accounts Payable, Payroll, Monetization Operations, Accounts Receivable, and FinOps Strategic Enablement — to deliver reliable, scalable, and controlled finance operations. BFin is the execution engine: we process at volume, maintain quality, surface defects, and partner with global teams to continuously improve.

The Role

As the AP & T&E Manager in Bangalore, you will own day-to-day operational delivery across two core FinOps workstreams: Accounts Payable and Travel & Expense. You will directly manage a team of AP and T&E specialists, ensuring consistent SLA performance, high processing quality, and strong controls compliance across both functions.

This is a hands-on people management role. You'll set daily priorities, manage team capacity, and resolve escalations — while maintaining close partnership with Stripe's global AP functional team. You own local execution quality and serve as the Bangalore execution interface for both workstreams. When you identify process defects or systemic issues, you escalate clearly and partner with global functional leads on the fix — but the day-to-day delivery belongs to you and your team.

What You'll Do

Lead and Develop a High-Performing Team

Directly manage a team of AP and T&E specialists; set clear expectations, run structured 1:1s, and build individual development plans aligned to BFin performance standards

Hire for open roles within your function; assess candidates rigorously against the operational and behavioural standards required for high-volume finance operations

Create a culture of accountability, accuracy, and continuous learning within the team — model the attention to detail you expect from others

Manage team capacity and coverage across AP and T&E workstreams, anticipating volume fluctuations and planning headcount and scheduling accordingly

Own AP Execution

Oversee end-to-end accounts payable processing: invoice receipt, PO matching, approval routing, payment run execution, and multi-currency, multi-entity reconciliation

Maintain payment accuracy and timeliness; manage exception handling queues and ensure aged items are resolved promptly within agreed SLAs

Own vendor communication for payment status, dispute resolution, and statement reconciliation; maintain professional and accurate vendor relation