Senior Manager, Financial Risk Management

OpenAI

Senior Manager in Financial Risk Management at OpenAI overseeing risk and controls across finance-critical domains. Leading risk assessments and implementing scalable control frameworks.

Posted 6/1/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $216,000 - $240,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ERP

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead risk and controls support across multiple finance-critical business domains, with a focus on building scalable foundations in a rapidly developing environment.
Assess risks across payments, equity, procurement flows, strategic investments, people processes and related systems.
Identify where the control environment is weakest or most exposed, and prioritize the highest-risk areas for remediation, control design, governance, or monitoring support.
Partner with operational, business, finance, legal, people, procurement, corporate development, 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, control objectives, monitoring expectations, reconciliations, evidence needs, system dependencies, and escalation paths.
Drive cross-functional remediation efforts where processes are unclear, fragmented, overly manual, inconsistently documented, or dependent on immature systems/data.
Help teams balance speed and control by implementing fit-for-purpose guardrails that support execution, preserve accountability, and avoid unnecessary friction.
Support new or changing processes, systems, deals, vendors, payment flows, and operating models by ensuring risk, control, governance, and evidence considerations are addressed upfront.
Contribute to broader ICFR/SOX and operational risk readiness efforts by strengthening control design, documentation, testing readiness, issue management, and leadership visibility across high-impact processes.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of experience in financial risk management, operational risk, internal controls, SOX/ICFR, internal audit, controllership, finance transformation, or related risk/control roles.
Experience working with at least some domains such as payments, procurement, strategic investments, M&A integration, HR/people processes, financial close, controllership, third-party risk, 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, where formal ICFR/SOX controls are required, and where automation or monitoring is the better answer.
Experience working in environments with evolving systems, incomplete process structure, unclear ownership, or fragmented data — and bringing order without over-engineering.
Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with operational, finance, legal, people, procurement, corporate development, and technical teams, including stakeholders who may initially view controls as slowing them down.
Strong ability to translate broad risks into actionable controls, RCMs, narratives, operating requirements, quality gates, KRIs, dashboards, and remediation plans.
Deep familiarity with core controls concepts, including preventive vs. detective controls, manual vs. automated controls, IT-dependent controls, monitoring mechanisms, evidence expectations, testing readiness, and deficiency evaluation.
Strong communication, organization, and stakeholder management skills.
ERP, GRC, procurement, payments, HRIS, investment, M&A integration, workflow, or data platform experience is a plus.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

financial risk managementoperational riskinternal controlsSOXICFRinternal auditcontrollershipfinance transformationcontrol designrisk assessment

Soft Skills

strong judgmentpartneringcommunicationorganizationstakeholder managementtranslating risksremediation planningproblem-solvingcollaborationadaptability