Senior Manager, Financial Risk Management
Remote • San Francisco • FullTime
Posted 24d ago
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
OpenAI is seeking a Senior Manager, Financial Risk Management to help shape and scale the company's risk and controls framework across various dynamic business domains. This role will focus on identifying, prioritizing, and mitigating operational and financial risks in areas such as payments, equity, strategic investments, procurement, people processes, systems, and third-party dependencies. The successful candidate will act as a senior cross-functional partner to various departments, including Finance, Legal, and Procurement, to design and implement practical, scalable controls in a rapidly changing environment. This position requires strong technical controls expertise and the ability to translate ambiguous process risks into clear, actionable steps for teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead risk and controls support for multiple finance-critical business domains, focusing on scalable foundations.
- Assess risks across payments, equity, procurement, strategic investments, people processes, and related systems.
- Identify and prioritize areas with the weakest or most exposed control environments for remediation or support.
- Partner with various teams to design effective controls integrated into daily workflows.
- Translate risks into clear operational requirements, including ownership, approval points, and monitoring expectations.
- Drive cross-functional remediation efforts for unclear, fragmented, or immature processes and systems.
- Implement fit-for-purpose guardrails to balance speed and control, preserving accountability.
- Ensure risk, control, and governance considerations are addressed upfront for new or changing processes, systems, and deals.
- Contribute to broader ICFR/SOX and operational risk readiness efforts by strengthening control design, documentation, and testing.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in financial risk management, operational risk, internal controls, SOX/ICFR, internal audit, controllership, finance transformation, or related roles.
- Experience with domains such as payments, procurement, strategic investments, M&A integration, HR/people processes, financial close, controllership, or third-party risk.
- Strong judgment in designing appropriate controls for a fast-scaling company.
- Experience in environments with evolving systems, incomplete process structure, unclear ownership, or fragmented data.
- Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with operational, finance, legal, people, procurement, corporate development, and technical teams.
- Strong ability to translate broad risks into actionable controls, narratives, and remediation plans.
- Deep familiarity with core controls concepts (preventive vs. detective, manual vs. automated, IT-dependent, monitoring, evidence, testing, deficiency evaluation).
- Strong communication, organization, and stakeholder management skills.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model (3 days in office per week)
- Relocation assistance for new employees