Accounting Manager

OpenAI; United States; Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking an Accounting Manager to join the Accounting Operations team in San Francisco. You will own accounting and close activities, manage intercompany activity, and build efficient, well-controlled processes.

This hands-on role involves partnering with Tax, Treasury, and Business Systems to support growth and improve practices. You will lead close for balance sheet and P&L areas, review journal entries, reconciliations, and intercompany settlements, and ensure audit-ready

Qualifications

• Strong general accounting foundation.
• Hands-on intercompany experience.
• Experience with close processes and audit-ready documentation.

Responsibilities

• Own the close for assigned accounting areas, including accruals, prepaids, and other balance sheet and operating expense accounts, ensuring accurate results and timely completion.
• Prepare and review journal entries, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules; resolve accounting issues and maintain audit-ready documentation.
• Manage intercompany accounting for assigned entities, including cross-charges, reconciliations, and coordination of settlements.
• Investigate differences and drive timely resolution with counterparties.
• Support consolidation activities, including intercompany eliminations, entity-level validations, and foreign currency accounting.
• Analyze balance sheet and P&L movements.

Skills

Intercompany accounting

Close process management

General ledger

Job description

About the Team

OpenAI’s Controllership team provides accurate, timely, and decision-useful financial information while building the processes, systems, and controls needed to support a rapidly growing global business. Our Accounting Operations team owns core accounting and close activities and drives improvements that help our finance organization scale.

About the Role

We are looking for an Accounting Manager with a strong general accounting foundation and hands-on intercompany experience to join our Accounting Operations team. You will own accounting and close activities across assigned balance sheet and P&L areas, manage intercompany activity for assigned entities, and build efficient, well-controlled processes. This is a hands-on individual contributor role with responsibility for independently managing accounting processes, exercising sound judgment, and reviewing work performed by outsourced partners. You will partner closely with Tax, Treasury, Strategic Finance, and Business Systems to resolve issues, support business growth, and improve how we work. 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:

• Own the close for assigned accounting areas, including accruals, prepaids, and other balance sheet and operating expense accounts, ensuring accurate results and timely completion.
• Prepare and review journal entries, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules; resolve accounting issues and maintain clear, audit-ready documentation.
• Manage intercompany accounting for assigned entities, including cross-charges, reconciliations, and coordination of settlements.
• Investigate differences and drive timely resolution with counterparties.
• Support consolidation activities, including intercompany eliminations, entity-level validations, and foreign currency accounting, in partnership with the consolidation lead.
• Analyze balance sheet and P&L move