Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Manager, OpenAI
$180-230k
Includes generous equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
AI research and development platform
Job no longer available
AI research and development platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$180-230k
Includes generous equity
More information about location
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Role
Who you are
- This role requires deep expertise in SaaS and technology and an exacting attention to detail
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field with 8+ years of progressive experience in financial planning and analysis, preferably in the technology sector
- Strong proficiency in financial modeling and analysis, including expertise with Excel, SQL, and BI tools
- Exemplary interpersonal skills as demonstrated by the ability to clearly articulate financial data to non-financial colleagues and stakeholders
- Experience working with modern software and systems, particularly NetSuite, Zip, and Vena
- Deep understanding of artificial intelligence development and the key inputs to its success
- You’re an enthusiastic self-starter. You thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment, and expect to fully lead your function. You take ownership of your work and believe that a job not done well is a job not done
- You’re a phenomenal teammate. You’re a strong communicator who can translate the needs of your business partners into detailed financial forecasts. You intuitively understand the importance of keeping everyone in the loop, and you take proactive measures to do so. You’re intellectually honest
- You’re a builder. You not only embrace the opportunity to have a direct impact on how a company operates, you revel in it. An organization relies on the quality of its foundation and your passion is building strong systems and processes from the ground up
- You’re principled and data-driven. You appreciate the significance of data that has been scrutinized and evaluated with rigor, and base your decisions on these solid foundations. You regard a decision made without data as a decision made in the dark and recognize the role you play in ensuring the organization is well-lit
- You’re a pattern seeker. You have an innate ability to identify trends, even in the most unlikely places. You make connections that others might overlook, providing unique insights and contributing to robust strategic decisions. You believe that the key to understanding lies in the details, and your curiosity drives you to delve deeper
- You’re passionate about technology and artificial intelligence
What the job involves
- The Senior Manager of FP&A works cross-functionally to drive the budgeting and forecasting process, perform data-driven analyses to support strategic decision-making, and provide insights to senior leadership on variances between projected and actual results
- PenAI is seeking a Senior Manager to establish our FP&A function
- You will be a key leader in driving the financial planning process and work closely with other senior leaders to develop financial forecasts and set performance benchmarks for the company
- You will provide financial consulting and strategic support to senior management including preparing budget versus actual analysis, departmental results analysis, cash flow projections, and other projects requested by leadership
- This strategic, yet hands-on role will report to the VP Finance and work closely with senior department leads across the organization
- You will be a key player in driving the financial success of the organization by building–and sustaining–a world-class FP&A function
- Work with Strategic Finance to develop the annual budget, owning quarterly Forecast versus Forecast revisions and proactively communicating them to leadership
- Design and implement scalable stakeholder-facing tools for budget management and reporting
- Establish cross-functional partnerships with department leads aimed at identifying, understanding, and translating their resourcing needs to financial forecasts
- Leverage your knowledge of the business to report on key drivers of OpenAI’s financial results during the monthly close
- Build a culture around predictability; proactively identify business trends, incorporate them into our projections, reduce variances in reported results, and instill the value of accurate spend management with your cross-functional partners
- Design and implement reporting and benchmarking of key operational metrics in recurring reporting packages
Our take
OpenAI aims to research and deploy AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) that is safe, controllable and beneficial to all of humanity. The company began its mission by developing an API that can solve language-based tasks, such as answering written questions or pulling up relevant documents based on a query.
Following the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, which gained more than 1 million users in its first 5 days and is already worth billions, OpenAI announced a paid version named ChatGPT Plus which will be launched in the US first.
It is worth noting that OpenAI is not without controversy. Its products have sparked conversations regarding the morals and implications of AI tools, and recent investigations have uncovered misalignments between the company's public commitments and its alleged operations behind closed doors.
Whilst AI applications can be found in a vast variety of tech startups, this generally consists of the automation of algorithmic tasks such as data analysis and organization. OpenAI’s approach to designing true human-like artificial intelligence is futuristic, but with support from its high-profile partners (such as Microsoft), an annualised revenue reported at $ 2 billion in 2023, and the clear success of its products have the company well set to continue bringing advanced AI to the public.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
42% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Feb 2026
$110bn
LATE VC
Dec 2025
$1bn
LATE VC
Total funding: $179.9bn
Company benefits
- Health/Dental/Vision Insurance
- Flexible spending account for healthcare and dependent care
- Mental healthcare service
- Fertility treatment coverage
- 401(k) with generous matching
- 20-week paid parental leave
- Life insurance (complimentary)
- AD&D insurance (complimentary)
- Short-term/long-term disability insurance (complimentary)
- Optional buy-up life insurance
- Flexible work hours and unlimited paid time off (we encourage 4+ weeks per year)
- Annual learning & development stipend
- Regular team happy hours and outings
- Daily catered lunch and dinner
- Travel to domestic conferences
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sam Altman
(CEO)Former Y Combinator President & Chairman.
Ilya Sutskever
(Chief Scientist)Initially served as the company's Research Director, then became Chief Scientist in 2018. Co-founded DNNResearch and previously worked at Google as a Research Scientist.
Greg Brockman
(President & Chairman)Previously served as CTO of the company. Founding Engineer and former CTO of Stripe.
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