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OpenAI · 1 day ago

Strategic Finance, Hardware Financial Consolidations & Systems

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$265K/yr - $325K/yr

8+ years exp

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They are hiring a Hardware Finance Manager, Consolidations & Systems to oversee consolidated financial reporting, forecasting, and financial systems across hardware organizations, ensuring leadership has accurate financial insights for decision-making.

Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS

Growth Opportunities

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end consolidated financial reporting for all hardware organizations (Io and Robotics), delivering a single, integrated P&L view across R&D, Product, COGS, and OpEx

Establish and run the hardware financial operating cadence, including monthly close, forecasting, reforecasting, and variance analysis, ensuring consistency and accountability across teams

Serve as a key finance partner to Hardware Finance leads, central FP&A, and Accounting, aligning bottoms-up plans with accounting actuals and enterprise reporting requirements

Build and maintain consolidated forecasting and reporting models that roll up inputs from Product Finance, COGS / Supply Chain, and R&D into a cohesive, driver-based financial view

Design, implement, and manage hardware financial systems, tools, and processes, driving standardization, automation, and scalability while reducing manual effort and reconciliation risk

Own the hardware chart of accounts and financial structures, ensuring clarity of ownership, consistent definitions, and compatibility with accounting and enterprise systems

Provide executive-ready financial insights, including variance explanations, trend analysis, and forward-looking risk and opportunity signals for hardware leadership

Establish data governance and quality controls, defining standards, validation checks, and review processes to ensure financial outputs are trusted, repeatable, and auditable

Support portfolio-level decision-making by enabling consistent comparisons across hardware programs and organizations, improving transparency and alignment in resource allocation discussions

Contribute to the development and scaling of the hardware finance infrastructure, evolving systems, reporting, and processes to support continued growth without adding friction

Qualification

Financial ReportingForecastingVariance AnalysisFinancial Systems ManagementModeling SkillsData GovernanceCritical EvaluationTeam BuildingCommunication Skills

Required

8+ years of progressive finance experience with significant exposure to hardware, manufacturing, or complex supply chain businesses

A passion for helping build world-class finance teams and driving business and financial outcomes, as measured on margin improvement, working capital efficiency, forecast accuracy, and execution of cost-reduction initiatives

A strong ability to critically evaluate opportunities and risks

Expert modeling skills with best-in-class attention to detail and unwavering commitment to accuracy

Exemplary ability to distill complex financial information into actionable insights

Excellent communication skills and 'story telling' ability when presenting data insights

Strong enthusiasm for building the human-computer interface for the AI era