Strategic Finance Manager, Infrastructure (R&D)

Strategic Finance Manager, Infrastructure (R&D)

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 to hire a Strategic Finance Manager to partner with the Research & Development (R&D) organization at Rippling and manage our rapidly growing infrastructure budget. Infrastructure costs at Rippling span third-party cloud services, observability and security tools, and AI platform costs. The role is based in San Francisco, CA (in-office only). This role will work directly with senior management, primarily within Engineering, and will have significant executive exposure.

R&D is critical to building the products that power Rippling’s growth and this position is fundamental to strategically managing our infrastructure investments. This role will be responsible for leading annual and quarterly financial planning activities for infrastructure costs, performance tracking against plan, analysis of new initiatives, and supporting Engineering in the ongoing journey to accurately attribute product-level costs across the Rippling portfolio.

What you will do

• Work closely with Engineering leadership, cross-functional partners, and colleagues across the Finance organization
• Drive the annual and quarterly planning processes and enable strategic decisions that optimize our significant infrastructure investment
• Lead the monthly close and re-forecast process, including monthly live reviews with Engineering leadership
• Coordinate with Accounting partners to ensure bi-directional flow of information during close cycles
• Become the Finance expert on our third-party cloud cost management platform
• Support the launch of new initiatives including modeling new products to support decision making
• Partner with the business and cross-functional team members to develop and maintain robust, scalable forecasting models
• Coordinate and prepare materials for executive review, including for board meetings

What you will need

• Bachelor’s degree in quantitative field, MBA or equivalent preferred
• Minimum 5+ years of finance experience
• Experience managing infrastructure costs in a high growth SaaS company preferred but not required
• Familiarity with Anaplan or other FP&A planning tools
• SQL experience preferred but not required
• Strong financial modeling and analysis experience with the ability to simplify complex problems into intuitive models
• Excellent communication - written, verbal, and presentation
• Experience partnering with Engineering and Product teams a bonus
• Self-starter with excellent time management skills
• Ability to navigate a fast-paced, entrepreneurial work environment
• Organized, attentive to detail, and intellectually curious

If you don’t necessarily meet all of the requirements listed here, we still encourage you to apply because skills can be used in lots of different ways, your life experience is equally important sometimes.

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 [email protected]

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 40 mile 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.

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.

A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.

The pay range for this role is:

120,000 - 210,000 USD per year (US Tier 1)