Senior Manager, Accounting Operations

About the Team OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. About the Role We are seeking a Senior Manager, Accounting Operations to help architect, scale, and operate a world-class controllership function as we continue hyper growth and evolve reporting and compliance needs. This role will own significant portions of the close-to-reporting lifecycle, drive SOX-ready control design and execution, and partner cross-functionally to build a scalable, automated, and audit-ready financial infrastructure. You will operate as a key leader within the controllership organization—balancing hands-on technical accounting execution with strategic process design, while influencing systems architecture, close acceleration, and financial data integrity across the enterprise. This role is ideal for someone who has operated in hyper growth environments, understands what “good” looks like at scale, and has helped teams move from manual, high-touch processes to automated, control-oriented, ERP-driven accounting operations. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We u