Strategic Finance Associate, Strategic Planning

About the role

Rippling is looking to hire a high potential Senior Associate to serve as a business partner to Rippling’s G&A functions, support our long-range planning work, & contribute to select strategic initiatives. This role will have high visibility with senior leadership and sit at the intersection of finance, strategy, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with functional leadership, cross-functional partners, and colleagues across the Finance organization to support date-driven decision making
• Create financial models from scratch to size business initiatives and the investment required to achieve them in order to help business leaders make ROI-based trade-offs
• Partner with G&A leadership to develop and monitor headcount and vendor spend to ensure that the company’s financial plan remains on track
• Support Rippling’s long-range planning activities, contributing to strategic analysis related to fundraising, capital structure, and liquidity-related planning

Requirements

• 4+ years of finance experience. Previous career experience in banking or investing is preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or a related field.
• Strong analytical skills. This includes the ability to create financial models from scratch and an interest in conducting deep dive analysis to better understand key business drivers.
• Self-starter. This individual should feel comfortable operating in a high growth environment, with a desire to take ownership of projects and drive them to completion with limited guidance.
• Ability to collaborate with teams across the company. Strong oral and written communication skills, and the ability to work effectively with non-financial audiences.
• Experience with Salesforce and SQL are a plus but are not required.

Qualifications

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.

Skills

The role will require strong analytical and modeling skills, as well as the ability to work collaboratively across different departments.

Benefits

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 employee's role.

Pay

This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.

The pay range for this role is:

• 81,000 - 135,000 USD per year (US Tier 1)

Schedule

Rippling is based in San Francisco, CA and New York, NY. The role is based out of either the New York or San Francisco offices.