Compliance Analyst

The role of Compliance Analyst involves supporting day-to-day compliance operations and working directly under the Legal function. This position is ideal for someone with a strong foundation in regulatory compliance, risk management, controls, and investigative processes, 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.

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 it, track completion, and help write content that people will read.
• Support the AI governance program, including the inventory of AI use cases, vendor and model documentation, and review workflows.

Experience:

• 1–4 years of experience in compliance, risk, privacy, or a closely related function, ideally at a regulated company or a firm serving regulated clients.
• Working familiarity with at least one of: U.S. financial privacy law, data privacy frameworks, third-party risk management, or regulatory compliance in financial services or tax.
• Strong analytical and investigative skills, organizational habits. You keep trackers accurate, meet deadlines without being chased, and leave a record others can pick up.
• Comfortable working independently and handling sensitive information.

Nice to Have:

• Experience at a fintech, bank, or tax software company, or in a role supporting those clients.
• Exposure to IRC, IRS e-file provider rules, or tax-industry data protection requirements.
• Experience responding to bank or financial-institution due diligence questionnaires, or working inside a compliance management tool.
• Privacy or compliance certification, or active progress toward one.