Compliance Analyst

About the role

We are looking for an Compliance Analyst to support day-to-day compliance operations and work directly under the Legal function. This role is ideal for someone with a strong foundation in regulatory compliance, risk management, controls, and investigative processes who is ready to take on increasing ownership and operate with a high degree of judgment and professionalism. This is a hands-on role with room to grow and take ownership of increasingly complex compliance matters. This role is based in New York, NY on a hybrid schedule, and that is our preference. We will consider remote candidates in the United States who can work on Eastern time.

Key responsibilities

- Conduct compliance reviews, monitoring, and testing across april's regulatory obligations.

- Review and investigate potential compliance issues, document findings, and escalate where appropriate.

- Identify control gaps and assist with remediation and follow-up.

- Assist with regulatory reporting, audits, and compliance assessments.

- Monitor regulatory developments relevant to tax software, data privacy, and financial services; summarize what matters for april; and propose and help implement updates to internal policies and procedures.

- Run point on customer due diligence requests: third-party risk management questionnaires, compliance and privacy due diligence questionnaires, audit requests, and ongoing monitoring asks from customers.

- Work with the Security team to deliver consistent, accurate answers across security, privacy, and regulatory questionnaires, and maintain the Legal/compliance answer bank.

- Own the vendor compliance intake process: risk-tier new vendors, collect and review their security and privacy documentation, and route anything that needs Legal or Security review.

- Keep april's compliance policies current, track review dates, manage version control, and drive the annual review and approval cycle.

- Coordinate compliance training: schedule i...