M&A Finance Integration Lead

About the Team

OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission.

The Finance Program Management Office (FinPMO) is responsible for driving and scaling cross-functional finance programs and M&A integrations. FinPMO partners closely across Accounting Strategic Finance Corporate Development Equity Procurement Treasury Risk and Legal to ensure financial change through M&A and other new business models is executed in a controlled auditable and operationally effective way.

FinPMO plays a critical role in managing M&A including financial deal diligence finance operations post-close integrations reporting and controls. We help quarterback the M&A process to help ensure corporate integrations are executed cleanly risks are managed proactively and leadership has clear deal visibility.

About the Role

As a M&A Finance Integration Lead you will own and scale OpenAIs finance integration model. This is a highly cross-functional transactions driven role for someone who can bring structure to ambiguity translate deal complexity into executable workplans and drive successful M&A outcomes across multiple teams.

Were looking for someone to be the central point of accountability to oversee finance workstreams across the full M&A lifecycle. Youll ensure integrations are executed cleanly financial risks are mitigated early and our books controls and systems remain stable as OpenAI scales.

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:

• Define and build standardized scalable M&A finance integration frameworks.

• Drive consistent execution across multiple simultaneous M&A integrations.

• Ensure timely accurate M&A diligence including historical financials revenue equity tax and procurement.

• Lead integration planning for deal close readiness across accounting valuation payroll banking entities and controls.

• Translate deal terms and integration strategy into actionable workplans timelines and dependencies.

• Ensure on track deal execution accounting operational integration systems cutover and reporting.

• Proactively surface post-close deal integration risks and drive mitigation plans.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• 10 years of experience across M&A deal integration and finance transformation ideally in an Investment Banking/PE backed environment and/or high-growth technology company.

• Demonstrated experience leading multiple concurrent M&A negotiations and deal integrations with complex cross-functional dependencies.

• Strong understanding of deal accounting controls and reporting in a fast changing environment.

• Exceptional stakeholder management and executive communication skills.

• A Bachelors degree in Finance Business Administration or a related field (CPA or MBA 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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