Location: San Francisco, United States
The OpenAI Foundation advances the mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Finance team supports that mission through responsible stewardship of charitable resources, accurate financial reporting, and reliable financial operations. The Foundation is building the accounting systems and processes that support it as it grows.
About the role: We are looking for an Accounting Manager with 10+ years of relevant accounting or audit experience to lead the Foundation's nonprofit accounting, financial reporting, annual audit coordination, and Form 990 preparation process. This is a hands-on accounting leadership role reporting to the Global Corporate Controller, combining preparation of complex accounting work with review of work prepared by colleagues and external partners.
Responsibilities:
- Own an accurate and timely close: manage the close calendar, prepare complex entries, and review journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations and schedules for cash, investments, prepaid expenses, accruals and fixed assets.
- Lead nonprofit accounting: oversee contributions, donor restrictions, releases from restrictions and net asset classifications.
- Own grant accounting: partner with grant operations to review agreements, maintain grant expense and payable schedules, and reconcile grant records and payments to the general ledger.
- Oversee functional and program expenses and expense allocation methodologies.
- Lead annual financial statement audit coordination with internal partners and external auditors.
- Manage annual Form 990 preparation with external tax advisers.
- Own financial reporting and analysis: prepare and review nonprofit financial statements, program-level reports and variance analyses.
- Strengthen controls and improve systems, including automation and AI-enabled workflow improvements.
Requirements:
- 10+ years of progressively responsible accounting or audit experience, including substantial nonprofit accounting or nonprofit audit experience.
- Demonstrated success owning a close and financial reporting process, leading audit coordination, and reviewing accounting work; able to coach colleagues and lead cross-functional work.
- Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP for nonprofit organizations, including contributions, donor restrictions, net asset classifications and functional expense reporting.
- Hands-on experience preparing and reviewing journal entries, account reconciliations, financial statements and close schedules.
- Sound judgment and discretion with confidential financial, donor, grantee and employee information.
Preferred: experience at a foundation, public charity or grantmaking organization; Form 990 experience; CPA qualification.
Compensation: annual base salary range of $175,000 to $205,000 USD.
HOW TO APPLY:
Apply online via the OpenAI Foundation's Ashby application page.
https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai-foundation/ea50645b-101b-445b-bf6e-77559c9b809a/application