Strategic Finance, Compute

About the Team

The Compute & Infrastructure Strategy team handles strategy and execution of OpenAI’s compute roadmap. This team’s key responsibilities span financial analysis & reporting, capacity planning, commercial and business development, and strategic partnerships. We partner across the business to allocate and deploy our resources for the highest impact outcomes.

About the Role

Compute is central to OpenAI’s roadmap and vision. We are seeking a candidate to support financial and strategic work across our compute and infrastructure portfolio.

This is a finance generalist role that includes core FP&A responsibilities as well as having the ability to understand investment analysis, commercial decision support, and strategic planning. You will partner closely with deal teams, technical and finance teams, Corporate FP&A and help shape decisions about how OpenAI invests in and manages compute.

In this role, own and drive all financial planning, forecasting & close processes for the Compute & Infrastructure org by partnering with various stakeholders across Finance, Accounting, Tax and Engineering. You will play a critical role in planning and forecasting the company’s largest and most complex cost center ( Compute & Infrastructure )

In this role, you will:

- Support & scale all FP&A functions including planning, forecasting, close, budgeting, reporting, and variance analysis across compute and infrastructure

- Build and maintain driver based high level financial models across different elements of compute, including GPUs, CPUs, storage, networking, data centers, and power to support rapid / iterative short term and long term planning.

- Consolidate various investment analysis across programs and create high-quality analyses, recommendations, and Exec and Board-facing presentations

- Support business partners across compute infrastructure, FP&A, and strategic finance

- Drive the improvement of the team’s processes, tools, and ways of working, and identify opportunities to scale effectively to support OpenAIs ambitious growth plans

- Support & scale all FP&A functions including planning, forecasting, close, budgeting, reporting, and variance analysis across compute and infrastructure

- Coordinate closely with Corporate FP&A on timelines and process

- Develop frameworks for investment trade-offs to guide executive decision making

- Partner with Accounting to ensure accurate classification of infrastructure spend (OpEx vs CapEx)

- Translate complex infrastructure costs into clear insights for leadership

- Effectively use internal AI tools to automate reporting/processes with a goal to improve efficiency and turn around time.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

- 7+ years in a finance and strategy operating role at a high-growth technology company

- Background in infrastructure, data centers, compute, cloud, semiconductors, or a related industry strongly preferred

- Strong financial modeling skills, particularly in capacity planning, unit economics, and scenario analysis under uncertainty

- Exceptional analytical, financial modeling, and written and verbal communication skills

- Proven ability to learn quickly and succeed in unfamiliar operating environments

- Comfort independently structuring ambiguous problems and working through incomplete information

- Track record of producing high-quality work under ambitious deadlines

- Proficiency in Excel/Sheets, SQL, and BI tools (e.g., Tableau); experience with planning systems like Anaplan is a plus

- Effectiveness in multidisciplinary, cross-functional environments

- Familiarity with data systems, analytical tools, and large datasets preferred but not required

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience; technical undergraduate degree preferred but not required

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. 

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