Finance Manager - Hardware Consolidations

OpenAI · United States

About the Team The Strategic Finance team provides financial insights and guidance to support the organization's long-term goals and strategies. We partner across the business to allocate and deploy our resources for the highest impact outcomes. About the Role We are hiring a Hardware Finance Manager, Consolidations & Systems to own the consolidated financial reporting, forecasting cadence, and financial systems across our hardware organizations (Io and Robotics). This role sits at the intersection of Hardware Finance, central FP&A, Accounting, and Finance Systems, and is responsible for ensuring leadership has a single, accurate, and timely financial view of the hardware business. This role will serve as the embedded owner of the hardware financial backbone, with end-to-end responsibility for consolidated P&L reporting, forecasting and variance analysis, and the systems and processes that enable scalable, decision-ready insights. You will help ensure hardware financials are consistent, auditable, and fit for executive and board-level decision-making as the organization scales in size, complexity, and capital intensity. We have a strong preference for candidates who can be based in our San Francisco HQ. 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 oversee multiple areas of responsibility:

• Own end-to-end consolidated financial reporting for all hardware organizations (Io and Robotics), delivering a single, integrated P&L view across R&D, Product, Revenue, COGS, and OpEx.
• Establish and run the hardware financial operating cadence, including monthly close, forecasting, reforecasting, and variance analysis, ensuring consistency and accountability across teams.
• Serve as a key finance partner to Hardware Finance leads, central FP&A, and Accounting, aligning bottoms-up plans with accounting actuals and enterprise reporting requirements.
• Build and maintain consolidated forecasting and reporting models that roll up inputs from Product Finance, Revenue, COGS / Supply Chain, and R&D into a cohesive, driver-based financial view.
• Design, implement, and manage hardware financial systems, tools, and processes, driving standardization, automation, and scalability while reducing manual effort and reconciliation risk.
• Own the hardware chart of accounts and financial structures, ensuring clarity of ownership, consistent definitions, and compatibility with accounting and enterprise systems.
• Provide executive-ready financial insights, including variance explanations, trend analysis, and forward-looking risk and opportunity signals for hardware leadership.
• Establish data governance and quality controls, defining standards, validation checks, and review processes to ensure financial outputs are trusted, repeatable, and auditable.
• Support portfolio-level decision-making by enabling consistent comparisons across hardware programs and organizations, improving transparency and alignment in resource allocation discussions.
• Contribute to the development and scaling of the hardware finance infrastructure, evolving systems, reporting, and processes to support continued growth without adding friction.

• 8+ years of progressive finance experience with significant exposure to hardware, manufacturing, or complex supply chain businesses
• A passion for helping build world-class finance teams and driving business and financial outcomes, as measured on margin improvement, working capital efficiency, forecast accuracy, and execution of cost-reduction initiatives
• A strong ability to critically evaluate opportunities and risks
• Expert modeling skills with best-in-class attention to detail and unwavering commitment to accuracy
• Exemplary ability to distill complex financial information into actionable insights
• Excellent communication skills and “story telling” ability when presenting data insights
• Strong enthusiasm for building the human-computer interface for the AI era.