Hardware Finance Leader: Consolidations & Systems

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 234,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI in San Francisco HQ is seeking a Hardware Finance Manager, Consolidations & Systems to own consolidated P&L, forecasting cadence, and the financial systems across Io and Robotics hardware organizations. This role sits at the intersection of Hardware Finance, central FP&A, Accounting, and Finance Systems, and will ensure leadership has a single, accurate financial view of the hardware business.

This role will drive end-to-end reporting, forecasting, and variance analysis, build

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive finance experience with hardware exposure.
• Ability to distill complex financial information into actionable insights.
• Strong modeling skills with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Excellent communication and storytelling when presenting data insights.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end consolidated financial reporting for all hardware organizations, delivering a single, integrated P&L view across R&D, Product, Revenue, COGS, and OpEx.
• Establish and run the hardware financial operating cadence, including monthly close, forecasting, reforecasting, and variance analysis.
• 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, Revenue, 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.

Skills

Financial modeling

Hardware finance

Strategic planning

Stakeholder communication

Data governance

Tools

ERP systems

Financial systems

Job description

OpenAI in San Francisco HQ is seeking a Hardware Finance Manager, Consolidations & Systems to own consolidated P&L, forecasting cadence, and the financial systems across Io and Robotics hardware organizations. This role sits at the intersection of Hardware Finance, central FP&A, Accounting, and Finance Systems, and will ensure leadership has a single, accurate financial view of the hardware business.

This role will drive end-to-end reporting, forecasting, and variance analysis, build