Revenue Accounting Manager, Ads

Compensation

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The salary range for this role is $162K – $180K, plus generous equity, performance-related bonuses, and the following benefits:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
• Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
• Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
• 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time
• Mental health and wellness support
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
• Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
• Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
• Relocation support for eligible employees
• Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends

About the Team

The Revenue team at OpenAI Finance plays a critical role in enabling OpenAI to scale commercial offerings by overseeing billing operations, deal desk, revenue systems, revenue accounting, and controllership.

About the Role

As the Revenue Accounting Manager, Ads, you will own accounting and controllership for OpenAI's advertising products. You will help build the financial foundation for Ads from early scale into durable operations, including revenue recognition, close, controls, reporting, reconciliations, and risk assessment.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end accounting and controllership for Ads revenue, including revenue recognition, contra-revenue, rev-share, incentives, credits, rebates, and related close activities under ASC 606
• Design and execute scalable month-end and quarter-end close processes for Ads, ensuring accurate, complete, and timely reporting supported by reconciliations, flux analysis, and reviewer-ready evidence
• Design accounting and control frameworks for global Ads expansion, including new currencies, billing entities, tax/invoice localization, FX, AR, and GL mapping
• Translate complex commercial, product, and contractual terms into operational accounting workflows with clear policy alignment and scalable execution
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Finance Engineering, Data, and Billing teams to define, validate, and audit Ads measurement logic
• Identify material risks, separate systemic issues from immaterial noise, and communicate substantiated recommendations to Finance and business leaders
• Use AI, data tooling, and automation to improve close speed, exception management, reconciliation quality, and control execution while preserving appropriate governance
• Support system implementations and enhancements across Oracle Fusion, data warehouses, billing integrations, ads platforms, and related finance tooling
• Lead audit support, documentation, walkthroughs, issue resolution, and remediation for Ads revenue accounting

Requirements

• 6+ years of progressive accounting experience, including ads revenue accounting or controllership in a public company or high-growth late-stage private company
• CPA or equivalent expertise, with strong command of ASC 606 and practical judgment on variable consideration, principal-agent, incentives, credits, and revenue-share arrangements
• Direct experience with ads, adtech, retail media, marketplace monetization, or a closely analogous high-volume usage-based revenue model
• Proven ability to build 0-to-1 finance processes, then harden them into scalable close procedures, reconciliations, controls, and audit-ready evidence
• Strong data fluency, including comfort validating high-volume calculations, tracing source-system data to billing and GL outputs, and partnering with data or engineering teams
• Practical experience applying AI, analytics, or automation in a Finance org
• Balanced materiality and risk judgment: able to quantify impact, identify root cause, assess control implications, and recommend proportionate action backed by evidence
• Experience with Oracle Fusion ERP, revenue systems, billing platforms, or finance transformation work

Workplace & Location

This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and uses a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.