Senior Manager, Corporate Finance

About the Team

The Strategic Finance 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 Senior Manager, Corporate Finance to serve as the dedicated finance business partner for our Strategy organization, which includes a diverse set of functions including our Policy and Legal teams. You will be a key partner to the leadership team and provide analytical decision-making support. 

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:

• Be the primary finance advisor to the Strategy organization’s leaders and help shape and influence key strategic and operational decisions (e.g., new compliance programs, litigation strategy, policy rollouts).
• Lead financial planning and forecasting for the Strategy org, driving discipline in resource allocation and spend management.
• Build robust financial models to project costs, headcount, and ROI for policy and legal projects, and translate complex data into actionable insights. 
• Help define and track key metrics (e.g., operational efficiency metrics, risk indicators) and build dashboards/scorecards to drive data-informed discussions.
• Partner cross-functionally to ensure financial alignment on strategic initiatives and seamless integration of finance processes.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• 10+ years of progressive experience in strategic finance, FP&A, or related fields (such as management consulting or business operations). 
• A track record of driving financial planning and analysis in a high-growth and ambiguous environment, preferably with exposure to General & Administrative functions (e.g. Legal, Policy, Compliance).
• A proven ability to build complex financial models and integrated forecasts from scratch, and develop new analytical frameworks to tackle unstructured problems. 
• Prior people-management experience.
• Strong Excel skills (required). Experience with SQL, Tableau, or other BI tools for extracting and visualizing data is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation abilities, including experience crafting clear, compelling narratives and financial decks for senior executives.
• Demonstrated ability to drive projects to completion under tight timelines, competing priorities, and independently deliver high-quality results.
• Intellectual curiosity about the evolving AI policy and regulatory environment, with a continuous drive to improve processes and personal capabilities.

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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