About the Team
The Internal Controls function sits within the broader Finance Risk Management (FRM) organization and plays a key role in strengthening the integrity, scalability, and reliability of OpenAI’s finance-critical operations.
Our team designs and governs the Internal Controls over Financial Reporting (ICFR) framework that supports accurate, transparent financial results. We focus on business-process controls across areas like procure-to-pay, payroll, revenue, month-end close, and infrastructure-related spend. We work closely with Controllership, Procurement, Hardware, Strategic Finance, Legal, and Compliance to ensure processes are well-designed, well-documented, and audit-ready.
As part of FRM, we contribute to OpenAI’s overall financial risk posture by supporting audit readiness, third-party risk considerations, and ongoing process improvements across the finance ecosystem. Together, we help build the foundation of trust and operational clarity needed for OpenAI to scale responsibly.
About the Role
We’re seeking a Senior Manager, Financial Risk Management to lead hardware and supply chain controls for one of OpenAI’s most dynamic and evolving operating environments. This role will focus on identifying and mitigating financial and operational risk across areas such as inventory, supplier changes, manufacturing flows, procurement, cost tracking, and other hardware-related business processes.
This person will serve as a strong cross-functional partner to Supply Chain, Hardware, Procurement, Finance, and Systems teams to help design and implement controls that are practical, scalable, and capable of holding up in a fast-changing environment with limited structure. The role requires someone who can move fluidly between risk assessment, control design, and operational execution — translating ambiguous process risk into clear actions that teams can adopt.
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:
- Lead financial risk and controls support for hardware and supply chain processes, with a focus on building scalable foundations in a rapidly developing environment.
- Assess risks across inventory, supplier onboarding and changes, procurement flows, manufacturing operations, commitments, cost tracking, and other hardware-related workflows.
- Identify where the control environment is weakest or most exposed, and prioritize the highest-risk areas for remediation or design support.
- Partner with operational, business, and technical teams to design controls that are effective in practice and integrated into day-to-day workflows.
- Translate risks into clear operational requirements, including ownership models, approval points, monitoring expectations, reconciliations, and evidence needs.
- Drive cross-functional remediation efforts where processes are unclear, fragmented, or overly manual.
- Help teams balance speed and control by implementing fit-for-purpose guardrails that support execution rather than unnecessarily slowing it down.
- Support process and systems changes by ensuring financial risk, control, and governance considerations are addressed upfront.
- Contribute to broader ICFR / SOX readiness efforts by strengthening control design and documentation across operational processes that have financial reporting or safeguarding implications.
You might thrive in this role if you have:
- 8+ years of experience in financial risk management, internal controls, SOX/ICFR, internal audit, controllership, finance transformation, or operational risk.
- Significant experience working with hardware, manufacturing, supply chain, inventory, procurement, or other operational business processes.
- Strong judgment on how to design the right level of control in a fast-scaling company, including where lightweight guardrails are sufficient versus where more formal controls are needed.
- Experience working in environments with evolving systems, incomplete process structure, or unclear ownership — and bringing order without over-engineering.
- Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with operational and technical teams and influence stakeholders who may initially view controls as slowing them down.
- Strong ability to translate broad risks into actionable controls, operating requirements, and remediation plans.
- Deep familiarity with core controls concepts, including preventive vs. detective controls, manual vs. automated controls, monitoring mechanisms, and evidence expectations.
- Strong communication, organization, and stakeholder management skills.
- ERP, procurement, inventory, or manufacturing systems experience is a plus.
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.
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