Accounting Manager

About the Team

OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission. Our Controllership team provides accurate, timely, and decision-useful financial information to internal and external stakeholders, while building the processes, systems, and controls needed to support a rapidly evolving business. As OpenAI’s products, pricing models, and commercial structures continue to, we are building a finance organization that can scale with both operational complexity and growth.

About the Role

We are looking for an Accounting Manager to help scale and operate our core financial close, reporting, and controls as we mature and grow as a company. This role will own critical areas of the balance sheet and P&L, partner closely with Business Systems and FP&A, and play a key role in building durable, SOX-ready accounting processes.

This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives in complexity, cares deeply about accuracy, and wants to help build the next generation of finance infrastructure.

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:

- Manage end-to-end accounting close for assigned areas.

- Prepare, review, and approve journal entries and account reconciliations.

- Own balance sheet integrity and explain period-over-period movements.

- Partner with FP&A to explain actuals vs budget and forecast.

- Work closely with Business Systems on Oracle workflows and integrations.

- Support acquisitions, system migrations, and new business launches.

- Design and maintain SOX-ready controls.

- Prepare audit schedules and support external auditors.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

- 6+ years of progressive accounting experience, with 2-3 experience managing outsourced support.

- Strong technical knowledge of U.S. GAAP.

- Proficiency with ERP systems (Oracle Fusion preferred) and advanced Excel skills.

- Excellent organizational, analytical, and communication skills.

- A collaborative, proactive mindset and ability to work effectively across teams in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.

- CPA license and/or Big 4 experience.

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.

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