Business Systems, Core Financials

About the Team

The Finance Platform & Technology team at OpenAI builds and scales the future-proof systems and data architecture that power our core financial operations. We enable business agility, compliance, and operational excellence across quote-to-cash, procure-to-pay, inventory, and asset management for both B2B and B2C. Our focus is on modernizing workflows through strategic integrations, scalable automation, and seamless data flows—empowering smarter decisions, reliable reporting, and sustainable growth as OpenAI evolves.

About the Role

As the Business Systems, Core Financials SME, you’ll be a critical partner to the accounting team, ensuring the General Ledger’s (GL) accuracy, timeliness, and integrity across monthly, quarterly, and year-end close cycles. You’ll work cross-functionally and own Oracle Fusion Financials configuration and support, resolve close-impacting issues, and drive enhancements that streamline workflows and improve reporting reliability.

This role demands hands-on Oracle Fusion expertise (especially in GL, Subledger Accounting, and Financial Reporting Center modules), a strong understanding of accounting workflows, a sharp eye for financial process optimization, and the ability to translate system behavior into actionable insights for the business.

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:

• Serve as the Oracle Fusion close and consolidation application administrator and subject matter expert.

• Address complex issues within Oracle Fusion, particularly those impacting the General Ledger and close processes.

• Be a key partner to Accounting during monthly, quarterly, and year-end close cycles.

• Monitor and apply emerging trends in finance systems, with a focus on Oracle Fusion capabilities.

• Support the development and delivery of scalable solutions that improve financial operations and reporting accuracy.

• Stay current on best practices in systems training, support models, and user enablement techniques.

• Collaborate cross-functionally to identify opportunities for automation and optimization within financial workflows, including leveraging AI capabilities.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• 6+ years in financial systems or ERP support, with 2+ years in Oracle Fusion.

• A strong understanding of accounting processes and a passion for streamlining business processes.

• Experience partnering with Accounting or Controllership teams on systems issues and reporting improvements.

• Familiarity with subledger-to-GL data flows, business process configurations, and Oracle Fusion best practices.

• The ability to translate complex system behavior into actionable insights for Accounting stakeholders.

• Comfort navigating Oracle Fusion configuration and supporting user requests related to chart of accounts, journal entries, and financial reports.

• A collaborative working style and strong communications skills across diverse stakeholders (i.e. Accounting, IT, and Systems teams).

• A proactive mindset and interest in applying AI to streamline finance operations.

• A curiosity for finance technology and stay current on new features, updates, and best practices in ERP and close optimization.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Information Systems, Accounting, 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 .

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. 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.

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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.

Compensation

$190K + Offers Equity