Location: San Francisco, United States
The OpenAI Foundation advances the mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Over the next year the Foundation expects to invest at least $1 billion across life sciences and curing diseases, jobs and economic impact, AI resilience, and community programs. The Finance team supports the mission through responsible stewardship of charitable resources, accurate financial reporting, and reliable financial operations.
About the role: The Foundation is looking for an Accountant or Senior Accountant to support nonprofit accounting, financial reporting, the annual audit, and Form 990 preparation. This is a hands-on individual contributor role reporting to the Global Corporate Controller.
Responsibilities:
- Support an accurate and timely monthly close: journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, and supporting schedules for cash, investments, prepaid expenses, accruals, fixed assets and other accounts.
- Maintain nonprofit accounting records, including contributions, donor restrictions, releases from restrictions, and net asset classifications.
- Support grant accounting: maintain grant expense and payable schedules and reconcile grant records and payments to the general ledger.
- Track expenses by function and program, and prepare expense allocations under established policies.
- Support the annual financial statement audit: prepare audit schedules, maintain the request tracker, and coordinate with internal partners and external auditors.
- Support annual Form 990 preparation for external tax preparers.
- Prepare financial reporting and variance analyses for leadership.
- Strengthen processes and controls, document procedures, and improve accounting workflows and systems.
Requirements:
- 3+ years of relevant accounting or audit experience for the Accountant level (nonprofit accounting and/or auditing nonprofits); 6+ years for the Senior Accountant level, with demonstrated success owning close areas and coordinating audit and Form 990 processes.
- Working knowledge of U.S. GAAP for nonprofit organizations, including contributions, donor restrictions and functional expense reporting.
- Experience preparing journal entries, account reconciliations and close schedules with clear documentation.
- Ability to investigate discrepancies, manage recurring deadlines, and exercise discretion with confidential information.
Preferred: experience at a foundation or grantmaking organization, audit and Form 990 experience, CPA qualification or progress toward one.
Salary range: $110,000 to $190,000 USD.
HOW TO APPLY:
Apply online via the application link.
https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai-foundation/870b1df5-fa2f-4616-a699-0266f647747b/application