Strategic Finance Generalist

OpenAI OpenAI · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · Strategic Finance

This role is for a Strategic Finance Generalist at OpenAI. The primary responsibilities include supporting corporate finance processes, strategic project work, creating financial presentations, and identifying financial opportunities. The role requires extensive experience in strategic finance or related analytical fields, strong financial modeling skills, and excellent communication abilities. While the company is in AI, this role is focused on finance and strategy, not AI/ML development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support critical corporate finance processes, including Board reporting and evolving our long-term forecasting models to support decision-making around expansion and operational strategies.
  2. Support strategic project work spanning transactions, capital markets activities, market research, new business model evaluations, and other business critical initiatives.
  3. Create high-quality presentations for communicating OpenAI’s financial performance.
  4. Distill our business and cost drivers into key metrics that underpin how we communicate financial performance, allocate resources, and plan for growth.
  5. Identify areas of opportunity across our P&L, cash flow and balance sheet.

Skills

Required

  • 8+ years of experience in strategic finance, corporate finance, investment banking, private equity, consulting, or another highly analytical role.
  • A strong ability to critically evaluate opportunities and risks in financials.
  • Expert modeling and analytical skills.
  • An exemplary ability to distill complex financial information into actionable insights.
  • Excellent communication skills and “story telling” ability when presenting data insights.
  • An understanding of business models and metrics that are relevant to OpenAI (i.e. B2B & B2C subscription and consumption models).

Nice to have

  • Strong enthusiasm about technology and artificial intelligence.
  • Best-in-class attention to detail and unwavering commitment to accuracy.