Senior Accounting Manager, Special Projects

About the Team

OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission. Our Controllership is responsible for providing accurate and timely financial information for our stakeholders. We aim to build best-in-class processes and systems that will scale with our business as it grows.   

About the Role

As a Senior Accounting Manager, Special Projects, you’ll focus on high impact, complex, cross-functional projects outside the routine close and reporting cycle that elevate our accounting and reporting capabilities. You’ll also understand and analyze complex one-time transactions, and implement the accounting for these transactions in our financial operations. Examples of complex transactions may include non-standard revenue contracts, stock-based compensation, operating and finance leases, and acquisition of assets.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. 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:

• Review complex accounting areas and deploy accounting for these transactions for month-end and quarter-end in a scalable manner.

• Upgrade systems and processes to generate reliable product-level P&Ls.

• Uplevel current processes for accruals through system implementations and process improvements.

• Track and report on ESG initiatives.

• Scope and implement the accounting implications of unique transactions, in partnership with technical accounting.

You might thrive in this role if you have: 

• 8+ years of comprehensive experience in accounting, including acquisitions, new entity setup, business unit reporting, executive reporting, and system implementations. 

• Prior experience in a public accounting firm with a managerial or senior managerial role (preferred).

• Experience with both public and hyper-growth private SaaS companies.

• A strong foundation in technical accounting, with proficiency in US GAAP and experience handling complex audit areas.

• Demonstrated ability in managing and supporting high-velocity, cross-functional teams on impactful projects. 

• Exceptional problem-solving capabilities, strategic thinking, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, innovative environment.

• CPA required (inactive status acceptable).

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 do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. 

For US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.

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