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title: 'Financial Systems Engineer at OpenAI'
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# Financial Systems Engineer at OpenAI

- **Company:** [OpenAI](https://feeny.ai/companies/openai)
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $240k–$266k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/ac43a452-1f50-42a2-816e-f920fdb51823

## Job description

## About the Role

As a Financial Systems Engineer, you will design, build, and operate the financial systems and integrations that support critical accounting processes across Oracle Fusion Cloud and OpenAI’s broader finance technology ecosystem. You’ll partner with Corporate Accounting, Accounts Payable, Revenue Accounting, Supply Chain, Engineering, Data, Tax, and other cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, scalable, and auditable solutions. This role requires deep Oracle Financials expertise, strong accounting process knowledge, and an engineering mindset. You will work across corporate accounting processes including equity, payroll, accruals, leases, mergers and acquisitions, intercompany, and close; transform Accounts Payable processes; and design solutions for complex supply chain accounting, cost accounting, ASC 606 revenue recognition, and compute and data-center accounting. You’ll help redefine how finance teams work by applying automation, AI, and agentic approaches to reduce manual effort, strengthen controls, and accelerate accounting and close processes. 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:

- Own the solution design, delivery, and continuous improvement of Oracle Fusion Financials and connected finance platforms, acting as both a hands-on engineer and a trusted functional partner.
- Partner with Corporate Accounting to improve processes for equity, payroll, expense accruals, lease accounting, mergers and acquisitions, reconciliations, and the month-end and quarter-end close.
- Work with Accounts Payable to deliver transformation initiatives across invoice intake, validation, matching, approvals, accounting, payments, supplier experience, exception management, and operational reporting.
- Design accounting solutions for complex supply chain initiatives across procurement, receiving, inventory, Supply Chain Financial Orchestration, costing, intercompany flows, logistics, and the lifecycle from acquisition through sale.
- Apply strong cost-accounting knowledge to standard cost, landed cost, purchase price variance, inventory valuation, manufacturing and logistics costs, cost of goods sold, and related financial controls.
- Partner with Compute and Infrastructure Accounting to design systems solutions for data-center and compute operations, including asset capitalization, construction-in-progress, placed-in-service, depreciation, lease accounting, reconciliations, and close.
- Partner with Revenue Accounting, Supply Chain, and Engineering to architect scalable Oracle-integrated solutions for hardware and other complex or nonstandard revenue arrangements under ASC 606, translating contract terms and operational events into accounting rules, data flows, controls, reconciliations, and a timely revenue close.
- Translate complex accounting requirements and operational events into system architecture, accounting rules, data models, controls, test scenarios, and integrations with Oracle.
- Architect integrations between Oracle and upstream or downstream product, revenue, payroll, treasury, data, and operational systems using REST APIs, events, middleware, and governed data pipelines.
- Design and implement Oracle Financial Accounting Hub solutions from scratch for multiple upstream subledger applications, including event models, accounting rules, mappings, integrations, controls, reconciliations, and end-to-end traceability.
- Resolve complex intercompany accounting issues involving foreign exchange, balancing, reconciliations, netting, settlement, and multi-entity operations.
- Build AI-enabled and agentic finance solutions—including assistants, model context protocols, automated workflows, dynamic dashboards, and conversational access to enterprise data—to reduce manual work and improve decision-making.
- Create monitoring, exception handling, reconciliation, regression-testing, and control frameworks so automated processes remain reliable, auditable, and supportable during close.
- Triage critical production issues, lead root-cause analysis, and deliver permanent fixes that improve both system design and finance operations.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

- 10+ years of experience in financial systems engineering, ERP, accounting technology, or solution architecture roles, with demonstrated ownership of complex finance transformation initiatives.
- 8+ years of hands-on experience with Oracle Fusion Financials and experience with several of the following: General Ledger, Payables, Fixed Assets, Lease Accounting, Intercompany, Cash Management, Cost Accounting, and Financial Accounting Hub.
- Experience delivering at least two full-cycle Oracle Fusion implementations or comparably complex enterprise finance programs.
- Strong knowledge of corporate accounting processes, including equity, payroll, expense accruals, lease accounting, mergers and acquisitions, reconciliations, and financial close.
- Hands-on experience transforming Accounts Payable processes and integrating procurement, invoicing, tax, payments, suppliers, and reporting capabilities.
- Deep understanding of supply chain accounting, Supply Chain Financial Orchestration, inventory and cost accounting, standard and landed costs, purchase price variance, logistics costs, and cost of goods sold.
- Strong knowledge of ASC 606 and experience designing Oracle-integrated accounting solutions for hardware, supply chain, and other complex or nonstandard revenue arrangements in partnership with Revenue Accounting and Engineering teams.
- Experience implementing Oracle Financial Accounting Hub from initial design through production for multiple upstream subledger applications, including accounting rules, integrations, controls, and reconciliations.
- Experience Working with enterprise integrations teams using Oracle Integration Cloud, or similar middleware, Oracle Fusion APIs, event-driven patterns, Python, SQL, and modern data platforms.
- Demonstrated interest and experience in applying AI, agents, automation, and nontraditional engineering approaches to finance operations and close processes.
- Experience supporting compute infrastructure or data-center accounting—including asset capitalization, construction-in-progress, placed-in-service, depreciation, and lease accounting—is a strong advantage.
- Experience resolving global intercompany challenges involving foreign exchange, multi-entity balancing, netting, settlement, and reconciliations.
- A strong controls and compliance mindset, with the judgment to improve automation and user experience without compromising auditability or data integrity.
- Exceptional communication skills and the ability to translate between Accounting, Finance, Engineering, Data, and business stakeholders.
- A bias for action paired with systems thinking—you can solve urgent operational problems while designing scalable foundations for future growth.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Accounting, Finance, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

## 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. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see [OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement](https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf). Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations. To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through [this form](https://form.asana.com/?d=57018692298241&k=5MqR40fZd7jlxVUh5J-UeA). No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this [link](https://form.asana.com/?k=bQ7w9h3iexRlicUdWRiwvg&d=57018692298241). [OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy](https://cdn.openai.com/policies/global-employee-and-contractor-privacy-policy.pdf) At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

## About OpenAI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company with a mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity.
- **Entity Type**: Private – structured as a nonprofit parent (OpenAI Foundation) governing a for-profit public benefit corporation (OpenAI Group). The company has confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the SEC, signaling a potential future IPO.
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, Wojciech Zaremba, and others

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial intelligence research and deployment
- **Target customers**: B2B (enterprises via API and platform), B2C (ChatGPT users), and developers (API, open-source models)
- **Mission**: To ensure that artificial general intelligence (AGI) – AI systems that are generally smarter than humans – benefits all of humanity.

## Products & Services
- **[ChatGPT](https://openai.com/chatgpt)**: Conversational AI assistant available via web and mobile, used by consumers and integrated into enterprise workflows.
- **[GPT-4 API](https://openai.com/product)**: Large language model accessed via API for developers to build AI-powered applications (text generation, summarization, code assistance, etc.).
- **[DALL-E](https://openai.com/dall-e-3)**: Image generation model that creates images from natural language descriptions.
- **[Whisper](https://openai.com/research/whisper)**: Open-source speech recognition system.
- **[OpenAI Agents](https://openai.com/)**: Emerging product category focused on autonomous AI agents that can perform tasks on behalf of users (announced June 2026).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed in the provided sources. Widely reported in the press at ~$300 billion as of early 2026 (post-funding round), but this figure is not confirmed by OpenAI’s official materials.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding exceeds $13 billion from Microsoft and other investors. The company has also confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC (see [openai.com](https://openai.com/) – “Confidential submission of draft S-1”).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Microsoft (strategic partner and largest investor), with additional participation from Thrive Capital, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and others.
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring with 721 open roles posted; expansion into agent-based products; confidential IPO filing; continued deployment of frontier models.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover & brand recognition**: ChatGPT became the fastest-growing consumer app in history, establishing OpenAI as the household name in generative AI.
- **Research leadership**: Consistently publishes cutting-edge research (GPT-4, DALL-E 3, Whisper, etc.) and attracts top AI talent.
- **Compute & infrastructure**: Exclusive partnership with Microsoft provides massive cloud computing resources (Azure) for training and inference.
- **Unique governance structure**: The nonprofit parent ensures mission alignment (AGI benefiting humanity) while the for-profit arm can raise capital and scale products.

## Strategic Focus
- **Safe AGI development**: Continued emphasis on safety research, alignment, and responsible deployment (e.g., safety systems, model provenance).
- **Enterprise expansion**: Growing ChatGPT Enterprise and API offerings for businesses.
- **Agentic AI**: Building autonomous agents that can “transform work” (announced June 2026).
- **IPO preparation**: Confidential S-1 filing indicates intent to go public, which will require increased financial transparency and governance maturity.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & values**: OpenAI’s stated values include “Humanity first,” “Act with humility,” “Feel the AGI,” and “Ship joy.” Operating principles emphasize agency, creativity, rapid iteration, and intense focus.
- **Benefits**: Competitive health insurance, mental healthcare support, 24-week paid birth-parent leave (plus 20 weeks for other parents), generous PTO, annual learning & development stipend, daily meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner), and a domestic conference budget.
- **Work environment**: Hybrid/office-based (San Francisco headquarters). The company offers a residency program for researchers and engineers transitioning into AI.
- **Impact**: Employees work directly on frontier AI models that shape the industry and society. The mission-driven nature attracts talent passionate about AGI’s societal implications.

## Sources
1. [OpenAI About Page](https://openai.com/about/)
2. [OpenAI Careers Page](https://openai.com/careers/)
3. [OpenAI Job Search](https://openai.com/careers/search)
4. [OpenAI Homepage](https://openai.com/)

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