OpenAI

Senior Manager, Financial Risk Management – Hardware, Supply Chain

OpenAI

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San FranciscoCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $216,000 - $240,000 per year

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About the role

  • Lead financial risk and controls support for hardware and supply chain processes, with a focus on building scalable foundations in a rapidly developing environment.
  • Assess risks across inventory, supplier onboarding and changes, procurement flows, manufacturing operations, commitments, cost tracking, and other hardware-related workflows.
  • Identify where the control environment is weakest or most exposed, and prioritize the highest-risk areas for remediation or design support.
  • Partner with operational, business, and technical teams to design controls that are effective in practice and integrated into day-to-day workflows.
  • Translate risks into clear operational requirements, including ownership models, approval points, monitoring expectations, reconciliations, and evidence needs.
  • Drive cross-functional remediation efforts where processes are unclear, fragmented, or overly manual.
  • Help teams balance speed and control by implementing fit-for-purpose guardrails that support execution rather than unnecessarily slowing it down.
  • Support process and systems changes by ensuring financial risk, control, and governance considerations are addressed upfront.
  • Contribute to broader ICFR / SOX readiness efforts by strengthening control design and documentation across operational processes that have financial reporting or safeguarding implications.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience in financial risk management, internal controls, SOX/ICFR, internal audit, controllership, finance transformation, or operational risk.
  • Significant experience working with hardware, manufacturing, supply chain, inventory, procurement, or other operational business processes.
  • Strong judgment on how to design the right level of control in a fast-scaling company, including where lightweight guardrails are sufficient versus where more formal controls are needed.
  • Experience working in environments with evolving systems, incomplete process structure, or unclear ownership — and bringing order without over-engineering.
  • Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with operational and technical teams and influence stakeholders who may initially view controls as slowing them down.
  • Strong ability to translate broad risks into actionable controls, operating requirements, and remediation plans.
  • Deep familiarity with core controls concepts, including preventive vs. detective controls, manual vs. automated controls, monitoring mechanisms, and evidence expectations.
  • Strong communication, organization, and stakeholder management skills.
  • ERP, procurement, inventory, or manufacturing systems experience is a plus.
Benefits
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
  • Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
financial risk managementinternal controlsSOXICFRinternal auditcontrollershipfinance transformationoperational riskcontrol designremediation plans
Soft Skills
judgmentpartneringinfluencing stakeholderstranslating riskscommunicationorganizationstakeholder management