Senior Manager, Technical Accounting & Reporting

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

We’re looking for a Senior Manager of Technical Accounting & Reporting responsible for complex accounting research areas, financial reporting, policy setting and helping scale the accounting function through our next stage of growth. This person will be a key leader on the Corporate Accounting team, partnering closely with cross-functional teams and external auditors.

The ideal candidate brings deep technical accounting expertise, strong SEC reporting instincts, and experience operating through periods of significant reporting maturity, including enhancing Rippling’s financial readiness to transition to a publicly traded company. This role requires someone who can both own the technical details and build repeatable, high-quality processes for a fast-growing business. This role will play a crucial role in developing, implementing, and maintaining our global accounting policies that

This is a hybrid role, with an expectation to work from our San Francisco office 1–3 days per week.

What you will doLead technical accounting research and documentation for complex and judgmental areas. Support new corporate projects, as needed, in areas of complex accounting and proactively identify, research, consult, and draft technical memorandums on all new global company initiatives, including product launches.

Own the preparation and review of technical accounting memos, policy positions, and conclusions under US GAAP. Support local GAAP requirements with our International Accounting team.

Lead key aspects of external reporting readiness, including disclosure development, reporting controls, supporting schedules, and public-company reporting processes.

Help drive the company’s evolution from private-company reporting toward public-company standards, including SEC-style reporting rigor, audit committee-ready materials, and scalable close and reporting processes.

Manage, coach, and develop a team, setting clear priorities, raising the quality of technical analysis, and building a high-performing technical accounting and reporting team.

Partner with Legal, FP&A, Tax, Equity, Treasury, Revenue, and business teams to evaluate accounting implications of new products, transactions, contracts, and strategic initiatives.

Support quarterly and annual audit processes, including coordination with external auditors on overall progress, technical matters, reporting deliverables, and complex accounting judgments.

Develop, maintain, and improve accounting policies, reporting checklists, disclosure controls, and process documentation.

Monitor new accounting standards and SEC reporting developments; assess impact, lead adoption planning, and communicate implications to stakeholders.

Drive quarterly valuation process and assess reasonableness of valuations working directly with external valuations specialists and Finance and…