About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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About the role
After becoming one of the fastest growing startups in the United States, Rippling is ready to up level our growth engine to scale to $1B in ARR over the next couple years, including through international expansion and the addition of new products like Global Payroll, Employer of Record, and Spend Management. Investing in our compliance controls is a key priority to enable future business growth.

Rippling is looking for a highly-motivated and proactive Compliance Testing Manager to play a key role in shaping and delivering Rippling’s compliance monitoring and testing program across our regulated products. This role will act as a trusted partner to the Head of Compliance Testing, helping drive quality, consistency, and judgment across the testing function. You will partner closely with our Legal, Compliance, Finance, and Product and Engineering teams to execute specific projects for our assurance program of our key programs. You have a passion for efficiency and building scalable approaches in the ever-changing world of technology and product growth. You are a self-starter and take pride in working cross-functionally to deliver observations on identifying key risks or enchantments to current practices. We love fresh perspectives on how compliance should be run, and welcome your innovative thoughts on achieving the highest efficiency and protection in Rippling’s activities.

That’s where you come in. The Compliance Testing Manager will be responsible for conducting compliance tests to ensure the company adheres to regulatory requirements and internal policies. This role involves working independently in analyzing data and processes to identify risks and gaps in the operational compliance processes, and offering thoughts on improvements, particularly to processes and controls within the product offerings of Rippling.

This role is well suited to someone who enjoys operating as a senior individual contributor with leadership influence, and who is comfortable acting as a sounding board on complex compliance and testing matters.

Key Responsibilities:

• Planning:Collaborate with the Head of Compliance Testing to define the annual review plans and ensure their timely execution.
• Conduct Compliance Testing: Be a self starter and perform regular compliance testing on various processes, transactions, and systems to ensure adherence to regulatory standards and internal policies.
• Identify and Report Issues: Identify compliance issues and risks through testing activities, and prepare detailed reports on findings. Recommend corrective actions and monitor their implementation.
• Policy and Procedure Review: Review and evaluate company policies and procedures to ensure they are up-to-date and compliant with current regulations.
• Testing Methods:Assist in creating and maintaining repeatable test scripts and documentation that align with compliance obligations, ensuring quality and consistency across regions. Be the lead on data management and analysis for testing purposes.
• Collaboration/Stakeholder Management: Work closely with various departments to ensure understanding and adherence to compliance requirements. Provide guidance and support in implementing compliance measures.
• Documentation: Maintain accurate and organized records of all compliance testing activities and findings.
• Governance: Partner with the Head of Compliance Testing on management and board-level reporting, including synthesising themes, trends, and emerging risks.
• Compliance Risk Assessments: Bonus if you also have experience of undertaking or supporting compliance risk assessments used to build annual testing plans.
• Deputy Coverage: Act as a point of escalation on complex testing matters, support prioritisation decisions, and provide continuity of coverage during periods of peak demand or absence.

You have:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, Law, or a related field.
• Experience: A minimum of 5 years of experience in compliance testing, auditing, or a related field, and demonstrates experience reviewing work, coaching junior testers, and raising the overall quality and consistency of a testing function.. (Experience in Fin Tech, payments, lending, and money transmission regulatory compliance is a huge plus).
• Knowledge: Strong knowledge of regulatory requirements and standards relevant to the industry. Familiarity with compliance frameworks and best practices.

Required Skills:

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Deep data analysis skills
• Strong attention to detail and organizational abilities.
• Strong professional judgment, with the ability to distinguish between control weaknesses, design gaps, and acceptable risk.
• Excellent communicator both internally and externally, with ability to break down complex regulatory requirements into easy-to-understand and practical advice.
• Proficiency in using compliance testing tools and software.
• Sense of humour

Equal Opportunity Statement

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.