Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Manager, CapEx Accounting role stands out in the SaaS landscape because it sits at the intersection of software-led scale and increasingly material physical investment. The remit links financial reporting to real-world infrastructure and tooling, reflecting how leading AI and platform companies are expanding beyond pure cloud cost models into capital-intensive buildouts that still need SaaS-grade rigor and visibility.
For a long-term SaaS finance career, the work builds durable expertise in how product direction and operational decisions translate into capitalization policy, fixed asset governance, and decision-grade reporting. Managing the fixed-asset lifecycle, close ownership, and audit readiness strengthens core controllership skills that transfer across high-growth SaaS organizations, particularly those modernizing ERPs and tightening internal controls as complexity increases.
The position is best suited to an experienced accounting leader who prefers structured problem solving, cross-functional partnership, and turning ambiguous workflows into repeatable systems. It will appeal to professionals who want finance to be close to engineering, operations, and procurement, and who are motivated by building frameworks that scale as a SaaS business adds new types of spend and reporting expectations.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About the Team
OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
The Controllership team delivers the financial truth that powers OpenAI’s growth. By translating operational activity into accurate, timely, and decision-grade financial data, we enable leadership to scale the business with confidence. Our commitment to rigorous controls and best-in-class systems ensures financial integrity as OpenAI grows.
About the Role
We are seeking a CapEx Accounting Senior Manager with deep experience in fixed asset lifecycle management, capital expenditure accounting, and relevant GAAP compliance. This is a role that is critical to building out the foundational policies and processes related to hardware products as we work to bring frontier AI into the physical world.
You will partner closely with Hardware Product and Engineering teams, Operations, Facilities and other Finance teams to own the accounting and reporting process for our capital investments in R&D equipment and infrastructure, and manufacturing tooling and equipment.
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:
Develop and execute accounting policy and procedures for capital expenditures, including initial recognition, capitalization vs. expense analysis, tagging, and depreciation/impairment.
Maintain comprehensive fixed asset registers for R&D equipment, pre-production tooling, lab infrastructure, manufacturing equipment, etc.
Partner with Procurement and Operations to support fixed asset tracking processes and reconciliations.
Lead monthly close, account reconciliations, and variance analysis.
Design and maintain strong internal controls around capex projects, asset tagging, periodic physical inventory, and financial reporting.
Ensure compliance with GAAP (or IFRS as applicable) for capitalization policies, useful life assumptions, and disclosures.
Support internal and external audit requests related to fixed assets and capex processes.
You might thrive in this role if you have:
8+ years of relevant experience in fixed assets accounting, ideally within a technology or manufacturing environment.
Strong GAAP knowledge related to PP&E, capitalization thresholds, depreciation methods, asset retirements, and impairments.
Experience with ERP systems (e.g., Oracle Fusion) and fixed asset modules.
Excellent analytical skills, organization, and ability to manage complex, cross-functional processes.
Detail-oriented and systems-minded with strong internal control instincts.
A builder mindset that enjoys turning ambiguous workflows into streamlined, automated, and reliable processes.
Experience with companies scaling hardware product lines or physical infrastructure.
Experience supporting multi-location asset accounting
Continuous improvement mindset and ability to build scalable accounting processes.
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.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant, please submit a report through this form. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.
OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy Policy
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
