Strategic Finance - PCR Lead

About the Team

The Capital Markets and Strategic Projects team provides financial insights and guidance to support the organization's long-term goals and strategies. We partner across the business to allocate and deploy our resources for the highest impact outcomes.

About the Role

We are hiring a Strategic Finance Generalist to help drive financial discipline for OpenAI across our finance, accounting and broader business areas.

This role is based in our San Francisco HQ. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Ensure OpenAI operates with the highest financial standards

• Translate regulatory, reporting, governance, and controls requirements into functional workplans

• Serve as the integration point across Finance, Legal, IT, HR, and business teams

• Act as a trusted advisor to the CFO and rest of our executive team on financial rigor

• This role is execution-heavy, judgment-driven, and cross-functional by design.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• Have operating financial experience across private and public companies

• Have led projects end to end and played a leadership role owning the outcome. Trusted by executives and senior leaders to frame trade-offs, pace decisions, and escalate risks

• Deep understanding of large and complex org structures. Can act as the quarterback for x-functional collaborations across Accounting, FP&A, Legal, IT, HR, and leadership team

• Understands how reporting, SOX/ICFR, systems, equity, compensation, governance, and audit interlock

• Advisory experience acceptable only if deeply embedded with decision rights and execution ownership

• Exposure to SEC reporting (S-1, 10-K, 10-Q preparation or review)

• Experience scaling finance systems and processes in fast-growing tech companies

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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