Compliance Analyst

About this role

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 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.