Strategic Finance Senior Analyst

About the Team

The Strategic Finance team provides financial insights and guidance to support the organization's long-term goals and strategies. We partner with stakeholders across the business to deploy our resources to the highest impact outcomes. 

About the Role

We are hiring a Strategic Finance Senior Analyst to provide analytical support for OpenAI across a variety of initiatives including annual planning, forecasting, budgeting and 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:

• Support our company’s annual planning, quarterly board reporting, and monthly financial performance review processes.
• Work closely with cross-functional partners across the G&A functions to develop annual operating budgets and hiring plans. 
• Provide ongoing financial reporting to business partners and help them connect resourcing to business outcomes.
• Collaborate with Procurement to secure optimal terms and ensure maximum value for OpenAI.
• Partner with Accounting to uphold the integrity and enhance the utility of our financial statements.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• 6+ years of progressive FP&A or strategic finance experience in high-growth or dynamic environments; investment banking, strategic consulting, or investing experience is a plus.
• Strong financial modeling, analytical, and problem-solving skills with the ability to independently see issues through to resolution.
• Exemplary interpersonal skills to clearly articulate financial data into actionable insights to various non-finance stakeholders and senior leadership. 
• Proven track record of managing multiple work streams and consistently meeting deadlines.
• Best-in-class attention to detail and unwavering commitment to accuracy
• Experience using forecasting platforms (e.g., Anaplan) for planning and budgeting.
• Experience scaling an early-stage private company to high growth late-stage private (or publicly-traded) company is a plus.
• Strong enthusiasm about technology and artificial intelligence.

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. 

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