Description
M&A Finance Integration Lead
Location
San Francisco
Employment Type
Full time
Department
Finance
Compensation
- $216K – $240K • Offers Equity
The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.
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 (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
- 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, may also be provided.
About the Team
OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission.
The Finance Program Management Office (FinPMO) is responsible for driving and scaling cross-functional finance programs and M&A integrations. FinPMO partners closely across Accounting, Strategic Finance, Corporate Development, Equity, Procurement, Treasury, Risk, and Legal to ensure financial change through M&A and other new business models is executed in a controlled, auditable, and operationally effective way.
About the Role
As a M&A Finance Integration Lead, you will own and scale OpenAI’s finance integration model. This is a highly cross-functional, transactions driven role for someone who can bring structure to ambiguity, translate deal complexity into executable workplans, and drive successful M&A outcomes across multiple teams.
We’re looking for someone to be the central point of accountability to oversee finance workstreams across the full M&A lifecycle. You’ll ensure integrations are executed cleanly, financial risks are mitigated early, and our books, controls, and systems remain stable as OpenAI scales.
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:
- Define and build standardized, scalable M&A finance integration frameworks.
- Drive consistent execution across multiple, simultaneous M&A integrations.
- Ensure timely, accurate M&A diligence including historical financials, revenue, equity, tax, and procurement.
- Lead integration planning for deal close readiness across accounting, valuation, payroll, banking, entities, and controls.
- Translate deal terms and integration strategy into actionable workplans, timelines, and dependencies.
- Ensure on track deal execution accounting, operational integration, systems cutover, and reporting.
- Proactively surface post-close deal integration risks and drive mitigation plans.
You might thrive in this role if you have:
- 10+ years of experience across M&A, deal integration and finance transformation, ideally in an Investment Banking/PE backed environment and/or high-growth technology company.
- Demonstrated experience leading multiple, concurrent M&A negotiations and deal integrations with complex cross-functional dependencies.
- Strong understanding of deal accounting, controls and reporting in a fast changing environment.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
- A Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, or a related field (CPA or MBA a plus).
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.