# Lead, Audits, Exams & Partner Due Diligence

**Company:** [Rippling](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rippling)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Seattle, WA, Austin, TX
**Role:** Legal
**Salary:** $97k – $190k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Aml/Cft, Bsa, Ofac, Consumer Compliance, Regulatory Examinations, Audit Management, Partner Due Diligence, Confluence, Jira, Google Workspace
**Posted:** 2026-06-16

> Lead regulatory examinations, audits, and financial partner due diligence for a fintech company. Own end-to-end exam programs and serve as primary contact for bank and fintech partner compliance reviews.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do

- **Lead Exam & Audit Engagements**: Own all regulatory examination and audit activity from kickoff through closure—coordinating information requests, managing responses, and driving management action plans to completion.
- **Partner Due Diligence**: Serve as the primary point of contact for financial partner compliance reviews, including bank sponsor and fintech partner assessments. Build scalable processes for ongoing due diligence across the partner portfolio.
- **Engagement Strategy & Quality**: Develop and improve methodologies for producing high-quality, accurate, and timely exam and audit deliverables that reflect Rippling's mission and compliance posture.
- **Executive Reporting & Insights**: Prepare clear, concise reporting for senior leadership that anticipates regulator and auditor areas of focus, tracks open findings, and communicates overall compliance sentiment.
- **Cross-Functional Collaboration**: Partner directly with product managers, engineers, treasury teams, and operations leads to translate regulatory requirements into practical, actionable guidance—making sure compliance is built in, not bolted on.
- **Governance & Framework Support**: Support the development and maintenance of Rippling's regulatory compliance oversight framework, including policies, procedures, and integration with the Compliance Management System.
- **Go and See**: Get close to how our products and operations actually work—not just how they're documented. Use what you learn to drive better exam preparation and more credible compliance positions.

## What You Bring

- 7+ years of experience managing regulatory examinations, audits, or financial partner due diligence in financial services or fintech.
- Strong working knowledge of AML/CFT, BSA, OFAC, and consumer compliance regulations applicable to MSBs, payment processors, or similar entities.
- Direct experience interfacing with U.S. federal and/or state regulators (e.g., FinCEN, CFPB, OCC, NYDFS, CA DFPI) and/or financial institution compliance reviewers.
- Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent engagements and competing deadlines without losing quality.
- Clear, direct communicator with both regulators and internal stakeholders like engineers and product managers.
- Strong written and presentation skills; you can walk a regulator or a board through a complex issue concisely.
- Comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where the answer isn't always written down yet.
- Familiarity with Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance tools and productivity platforms (Confluence, Jira, Google Workspace, Slack).
- Legally authorized to work in the U.S.

## Nice to Have

- CAMS, CRCM, CIPP, CIA, or similar professional certification.
- J.D. or advanced degree in law, compliance, finance, or a related field.
- Experience working with international regulatory frameworks (UK FCA, EU PSD2/AMLD, Canada FINTRAC, Australia AUSTRAC).
- Prior experience supporting licensing reviews or new product risk assessments.

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