OpenAI

Manager, Technical & Operational Accounting

OpenAI$135K — $160K *
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • CPA, CA, or equivalent accounting qualification
  • 5+ years of progressive experience in technical accounting or public accounting
  • Broad expertise in U.S. GAAP and complex financial reporting
  • Experience applying relevant guidance across various ASC standards
  • Developed or reviewed audit-ready technical memoranda
  • Knowledge of close and reporting processes, including acquisitions or investments
  • Familiarity with Oracle Fusion Accounting Hub or ERP systems

Responsibilities

  • Own operational accounting for complex financing and investment arrangements
  • Lead day-one and recurring accounting for non-standard transactions
  • Perform account reconciliations, investigate discrepancies, and resolve issues
  • Support resolution of complex accounting matters during close processes
  • Build operational processes to assess impairment indicators and asset recoverability
  • Coordinate valuations for non-standard transactions with specialists
  • Prepare audit support materials and ensure compliance with accounting standards
  • Analyze significant equity and compensation awards and ensure correct accounting

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional partnerships
  • Opportunity to influence operational processes and accounting practices
  • Visibility in a key role with interactions across multiple finance domains
  • Support for continuous professional development and learning
  • Engagement in high-impact initiatives involving complex transactions
Full Job Description
About the Role

You will partner closely with Technical Accounting, Financial Reporting and Controllership to translate complex accounting conclusions into scalable operational procedures. You will build processes for non-standard transactions, including warrants, equity-method investments, debt and equity securities, non-controlling interests, hypothetical liquidation at book value allocations, business combinations, and other complex financing, investment, and capital arrangements.

You will advise stakeholders across Corporate Accounting, Financial Reporting, Treasury, Legal, Tax, Strategic Finance, FP&A, Equity, Internal Controls, valuation specialists, and external auditors. You will help resolve complex accounting questions, align leaders on material judgments and risks, and translate conclusions into audit-ready memoranda, close entries, disclosures, processes, and controls.

This is a highly visible role for an accounting professional who can turn technical conclusions into practical execution, support non-routine transactions through recurring close processes, and strengthen operational accounting across Finance.

In this role, you will:
  • Own operational accounting for complex financing, investment, equity, and capital arrangements, including classification, measurement, presentation, disclosure, and recurring close processes.
  • In partnership with technical accounting, lead day-one and recurring accounting for non-standard transactions, including fair-value measurements, equity-method investments, debt and equity securities, warrants, noncontrolling interests, and hypothetical liquidation at book value allocations.
  • Perform reconciliations for assigned accounts, investigate discrepancies, and drive issues to resolution.
  • Support the resolution of complex accounting matters during monthly and quarterly close. Ensure conclusions are reflected in financial statement presentation, footnote disclosures, journal entries, reconciliations, ownership, and controls.
  • Build operational processes to assess impairment indicators and asset recoverability for goodwill, intangible assets, long-lived asset groups, equity-method investments, nonmarketable equity investments, and debt securities, as applicable.
  • Coordinate valuations for non-standard transactions with Technical Accounting and valuation specialists.
  • Lead audit support for assigned investments and other complex accounting areas. Prepare evidence-backed schedules, memoranda, reconciliations, valuation support, and financial statement tie-outs.
  • Analyze significant equity and other compensation awards, and partner with Equity Administration and Controllership to ensure accurate, timely accounting and booking.
  • Coordinate with Tax on downstream impacts without owning tax conclusions.
  • Partner with Financial Reporting and Internal Controls to strengthen controls, SOX/ICFR readiness, impairment monitoring, audit trails, tie-outs, and subsequent-event procedures.
  • Monitor emerging accounting standards and translate new guidance into policies, implementation plans, disclosures, reporting calendars, and scalable processes.
  • Participate in cross-functional initiatives involving accounting-policy implementation, operating-model changes, legal-entity matters, and systems or process improvements.
  • Develop pragmatic accounting policies, playbooks, decision frameworks, and automation that improve consistency, strengthen capability, preserve judgment, reflect economic substance, and escalate unresolved issues.


You might thrive in this role if you:
  • Hold a CPA, CA, or equivalent accounting qualification, or bring comparable demonstrated technical-accounting expertise.
  • Bring 5+ years of progressive experience in technical accounting, accounting advisory, public accounting, corporate controllership, or complex financial reporting, with meaningful industry or transaction experience.
  • Demonstrate broad U.S. GAAP expertise across corporate accounting, financial instruments, consolidation, business combinations, equity-method investments, debt and equity securities, impairment, fair value, financial statement presentation, and complex ownership structures.
  • Apply relevant guidance across ASC 320, 321, 323 326, 350, 360, 470, 480, 718, 805, 810, 815, and 820; and other applicable guidance as the facts require.
  • Have developed or reviewed audit-ready technical memoranda, implemented conclusions in recurring operations, worked constructively with external auditors, and grounded conclusions in evidence, economic substance, and authoritative guidance.
  • Have experience with significant aspects of close and reporting, acquisitions or investments, complex ownership structures, consolidation, or impairment assessments. Understand how technical decisions affect journal entries, reconciliations, disclosures, and controls.
  • Understand how accounting policies and judgments flow into close, financial statements, disclosures, reconciliations, significant estimates, treasury activity, and external-reporting readiness.
  • Set priorities across consequential workstreams and raise the bar for inclusive, scalable accounting practices while protecting financial reporting integrity.
  • Have experience with Oracle Fusion Accounting Hub, accounting rules engines, automated subledgers, ERP implementations, or similar source-to-general-ledger systems.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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100 employees
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