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—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 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) and will work directly with senior management, primarily within Engineering, and will have significant executive exposure.

This position is fundamental to strategically managing our infrastructure investments. It 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

Additional Information

Rippling is an equal‑opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We 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 accommodations@rippling.com.

This role will receive a competitive salary, benefits, and 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 120,000 – 210,000 USD per year (US Tier 1).

Seniority level : Mid‑Senior level.

Employment type : Full‑time.

Job function : Finance and Accounting / Auditing; Industry : Software Development.

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