Sowmya Ranganathan

Sowmya Ranganathan is currently the Controller at Rippling. Prior to that, they were the Controller at Brightloom from January 2017 to October 2019. Before that, they were the Corporate Accounting Manager at Square from November 2014 to January 2017.

Sowmya has extensive experience in building and managing accounting teams, ensuring deadlines are met, and preparing for 10-K/Q Reporting. Sowmya was also a key contributor to Square’s IPO - Financial Statements and MD&A preparation, liaising with external auditors and business partners for ad hoc requests relating to S-1 filing and ownership of the accounting for IPO Equity Issuance Costs end-to-end.

At Square, Sowmya led a team of five accountants and owned the following areas of GL: Consolidations and GL Close, Capitalized Software, Accruals, Fixed Assets, Prepaids, Facilities Expenses, Leases, Deferred Rent, Cash, Debt, Intangibles, Patents and the majority of Corporate Opex. Sowmya was also the go-to person for end-user questions for Oracle, Hyperion, Blackline and APEX Reporting tools.

Sowmya Ranganathan is a certified public accountant who has also been certified by the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants and the California Board of Accountancy. Sowmya has a bachelor's degree in mathematics with a focus in chartered accountancy and finance from the University of Waterloo, as well as a master's degree in accounting from the same school.

Their manager is Adil Syed, CFO.