What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Manager, Policy & Technical Accounting position at Rippling?
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
The Senior Manager, Policy and Technical Accounting will be a key leader responsible for managing aspects of accounting research, policy setting, and assessment of strategic accounting initiatives. You will play a crucial role in developing, implementing, and maintaining our global accounting policies that ensure compliance with regulatory standards and support the Rippling's strategic objectives. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to align financial reporting practices with evolving business needs and SEC requirements. Your expertise will be instrumental in enhancing the Rippling's financial transparency and readiness for the transition to a publicly traded entity.
What you will do
- Proactively identify, research, consult, and draft technical memorandums on all new global company initiatives, including product launches
- Directly responsible for ensuring compliance with US GAAP and maintaining appropriate controls throughout the above area of responsibility; support local GAAP requirements with our International Accounting team
- Support new corporate projects, as needed, in areas of complex accounting, including debt / equity instruments, mergers and acquisitions, financial transfers / instruments, among others.
- Lead contributor in our public readiness initiative, related to private-to-public company process changes and reporting requirements.
- Facilitate / coordinate the process of implementing new standards and accounting changes to ensure Rippling is prepared to comply at the necessary time including interpreting new guidance, developing and documenting Rippling position and policy decisions
- Support Rippling policies and accounting positions through external audit
- Monitor existing Accounting policies and update frequently, to ensure policies remain relevant with evolving business activities
- Partner closely with Rippling's Financial Reporting, Corporate Accounting, Revenue Accounting, Treasury, Tax, Legal and Equity teams
- Provide strong leadership to the Accounting department and our broader Finance organization, delivering technical accounting training and providing valuable insights to the larger finance function
What you will need
The pay range for this role is :
120,000 - 210,000 USD per year (US Tier 1)
Salary : $120,000 - $210,000
