M&A Finance Integration Lead

About the Position

M&A Finance Integration Lead

San Francisco

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.

FinPMO plays a critical role in managing M&A including financial deal diligence, finance operations, post-close integrations, reporting and controls. We help quarterback the M&A process to help ensure corporate integrations are executed cleanly, risks are managed proactively, and leadership has clear deal visibility.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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 the Company

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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