Finance Manager - Hardware Consolidations at OpenAI · San…

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 Hardware Finance Manager, Consolidations & Systems to own the consolidated financial reporting, forecasting cadence, and financial systems across our hardware organizations (Io and Robotics). This role sits at the intersection of Hardware Finance, central FP&A, Accounting, and Finance Systems, and is responsible for ensuring leadership has a single, accurate, and timely financial view of the hardware business. This role will serve as the embedded owner of the hardware financial backbone, with end-to-end responsibility for consolidated P&L reporting, forecasting and variance analysis, and the systems and processes that enable scalable, decision-ready insights. You will help ensure hardware financials are consistent, auditable, and fit for executive and board-level decision-making as the organization scales in size, complexity, and capital intensity. We have a strong preference for candidates who can be based in our San Francisco HQ. 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 oversee multiple areas of responsibility: - Own end-to-end consolidated financial reporting for all hardware organizations (Io and Robotics), delivering a single, integrated P&L view across R&D, Product, COGS, and OpEx. - Establish and run the hardware financial operating cadence, including monthly close, forecasting, reforecasting, and variance analysis, ensuring consistency and accountability across teams. - 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, 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. You might thrive in this role if you have: - 8+ years of progressive finance experience with significant exposure to hardware, manufacturing, or complex supply chain businesses - A passion for helping build world-class finance teams and driving business and financial outcomes, as measured on margin improvement, working capital efficiency, forecast accuracy, and execution of cost-reduction initiatives - A strong ability to critically evaluate opportunities and risks - Expert modeling skills with best-in-class attention to detail and unwavering commitment to accuracy - Exemplary ability to distill complex financial information into actionable insights - Excellent communication skills and “story telling” ability when presenting data insights - Strong enthusiasm for building the human-computer interface for the AI era. Compensation Range: $234K - $260K USD 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. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf. 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