Data Analytics Manager - Payments & Accounting

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 365all within 90 seconds.
Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the worlds top investorsincluding Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrockand was named one of Americas best startup employers by Forbes.
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About The Role
Ripplings Payments Data & Analytics team is seeking an experienced Analytics Manager to join our rapidly expanding team. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for building an analytics team from scratch; you will lead them in designing, building, and maintaining services that process vast amounts of financial data.
This is an exciting opportunity to build Ripplings analytics presence in India from the ground up. As Analytics Manager, you will establish and grow a high-impact analytics team in our Bengaluru officestarting from 0 to 1 and scaling within the approved headcount for the year.
You will partner closely with Accounting, Finance, Business Operations, Payments, and Product teams to deliver accurate, reliable data that underpins Ripplings financial reporting and ensures the correct functioning of critical product systems. Your work will directly influence decision-making across the company and help shape how data is used at scale
What You Will Do

• Collaborate across the company with engineering, accounting, financial partnerships and product teams to analyze and account for billions of dollars moving through the Rippling payment platform.
• Build a team of finance-focused data analysts from scratch; define scope, hire, train, and provide team members with mentorship with opportunities for growth
• Build full-cycle analyses using SQL, Python, or other scripting and statistical tools, and develop real-time metrics dashboards to manage key financial and operating levers of the business.
• React swiftly to emerging issues, summarize facts, and provide recommendations for the timely resolution of critical financial matters.
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  Collaborate with key stakeholders (Accounting, Compliance, Treasury, etc.) to understand business requirements and develop scalable solutions for reporting and reconciliation automation, including internal tool development and/or the implementation of third-party tools.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation of reconciliation processes and procedures.
• Prepare and deliver data and reporting solutions supporting month-end close, regulatory & compliance reporting, and Internal and External Audit reporting.
• Create, maintain, and ensure the completeness and accuracy of reporting databases and dashboards, and collaborate with data engineering to implement, document, validate, and monitor our evolving data infrastructure
  

What You Will Need

• Masters degree or Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Business Analytics, Statistics, MIS or other quantitative fields.
• 8+ years demonstrated experience working hands-on with data: building reporting tables and dashboards for use by functional partners, building and scheduling data pipelines, exploratory analysis on large data sets, etc.
• 5+ years working in the payments, fintech or finance world; working closely with cross functional stakeholders in both business and engineering teams
• 2+ years spent developing and coaching teams of data professionals
• Strong communication skillsyou must be able to distill technical details and communicate them to non-technical audiences
• Extreme ownership you are not satisfied until the problem is solved
• Project management abilities; you are able to keep large cross-functional teams aligned, on track, and working towards a common goal
• Ability to work through ambiguity, root cause problems, and solve them independently

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• Experience driving data quality; expertise in analytics engineering, automated alerting, and tracking accuracy in large-scale financial datasets
• Expert-level SQL, comfort with git, experience with dbt CLI or an equivalent tool
• Extensive experience in building reporting in Tableau or an equivalent tool
• Strong interest in data tooling; youre always up to date on the latest developments in the modern data stack
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience working across multiple US timezones with distributed teams
• You have experience supporting financial audits and compliance reporting
• Experience building operational admin dashboards in tools such as Retool
• Bonus points if you have experience with general accounting principles, with the general ledger close process, and regulatory compliance.
  

Additional Information
Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email [HIDDEN TEXT]
Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employees role.