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Lead, Corporate Technical Accounting and Strategic Transactions

OpenAI· Finance
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$216k - $240kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior technical accounting leader responsible for complex accounting matters, strategic transactions, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure accurate financial reporting under US GAAP.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the resolution of complex technical corporate accounting matters across the monthly and quarterly close; shape financial statement presentation and footnote disclosures; ensure technical conclusions are reflected in journal entries, reconciliations, ownership, and controls.
  • Own the technical accounting for complex financing, investment, and equity-related arrangements, including classification, measurement, presentation, and disclosure.
  • Lead the assessment of consequential corporate accounting matters, including leases, commitments, contingencies, guarantees, accruals, prepaid expenses, property and equipment, internal-use software, capitalization, and vendor or partnership arrangements.
  • Serve as a senior accounting advisor on strategic investments, acquisitions, joint ventures, and partnerships; apply guidance on business combinations, equity-method, VIE, consolidation, noncontrolling interests, and purchase accounting.
  • Lead assessments of impairment indicators and asset recoverability across goodwill, intangibles, long-lived assets, equity-method investments, and debt securities; oversee testing, forecasts, fair-value, and disclosures with auditors.
  • Lead the evaluation of stock-based compensation, equity awards, earnings-per-share implications, and interplay with capital structure and reporting.
  • Oversee treasury and operating matters including cash, liquidity, foreign currency, intercompany balances, related-party arrangements; coordinate with Tax on downstream impacts.
  • Develop concise technical memoranda and position papers; defend accounting positions with evidence and guidance; ensure alignment with external auditors.
  • Translate conclusions into journal entries, close procedures, disclosures, data requirements, and repeatable controls; drive cross‑Finance implementation.
  • Anticipate emerging accounting standards; shape policy changes and implement practical guidance; ensure scalable reporting processes.
  • Provide senior review of financial metrics and external-facing analyses with aligned definitions and reconciliations.
  • Partner with Financial Reporting and Internal Controls to strengthen disclosures, SOX/ICFR readiness, impairment monitoring, and audit trails.
  • Lead high-priority cross-functional strategic transactions involving policy implementation, operating-model changes, and system/process improvements.
  • Design and institutionalize policies, playbooks, decision frameworks, and automation to improve consistency and independent judgment.

Qualifications

  • Hold a CPA, CA, or equivalent qualification, or demonstrable technical accounting expertise.
  • 10+ years of progressive experience in technical accounting, accounting advisory, public accounting, corporate controllership, or complex financial reporting.
  • Broad U.S. GAAP expertise across corporate accounting, leases, financial instruments, capitalization, share-based compensation, consolidation, impairment, and financial statement presentation.

Skills

Required:Technical accounting leadershipUS GAAP

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter accounts
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents, 20 weeks for non-birth parents) plus caregiver leave
  • Paid time off and holidays
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals and meal delivery credits
  • Relocation support for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
Last updated Aug 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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