Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Manager, Technical Accounting role sits at a point where SaaS finance becomes structurally complex: acquisitions. In software businesses, M&A can quickly change revenue profiles, intangible asset footprints, and disclosure expectations, making Day 1 accounting decisions unusually consequential for how the company reports and is understood by stakeholders.
For a SaaS career, the work builds durable technical range across purchase accounting, policy design, and control documentation, all of which translate across subscription and usage-based models. It also sharpens the ability to turn novel transaction terms into auditable positions and operational entries, a skill set that becomes increasingly valuable as SaaS companies expand product lines, acquire capabilities, or mature toward public-company reporting standards.
The role tends to suit an accounting leader who prefers research-heavy problem solving and clear written conclusions, and who enjoys partnering across controllership and tax to land decisions that hold up under scrutiny. It is a strong match for someone aiming to be a go-to technical resource for complex transactions rather than focusing primarily on routine close execution.
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. Our Controllership is responsible for providing accurate and timely financial information for our stakeholders. We aim to build best-in-class processes and systems that will scale with our business as it grows.
About the Role
As Senior Manager, Technical Accounting - M&A, you’ll focus on accounting for the Day 1 impacts of business and asset acquisitions. You’ll research and analyze complex M&A transaction clauses, while also refreshing and documenting policies and controls for business acquisitions.
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 eligible employees.
In this role, you will:
Review complex accounting transactions and document novel accounting conclusions for business and asset acquisitions.
Translate accounting conclusions into accurate month-end journal entries and quarterly footnote disclosures.
Enhance current policies and controls surrounding M&A process.
Create purchase price allocation workbooks, valuation of purchased entities, and business combination memos for each new business acquisition, in partnership with the controllership and tax teams.
You might thrive in this role if you have:
CPA, CA, or equivalent accounting qualification.
10+ years of progressive experience in public accounting firms and/or accounting leadership roles in technology company environments.
Prior experience in a public accounting firm with a managerial or senior managerial role (preferred).
Experience with both public and hyper-growth private SaaS companies.
A strong foundation in technical accounting, with proficiency in US GAAP and experience handling complex audit areas.
Demonstrated ability in managing and supporting high-velocity, cross-functional teams on impactful projects.
Exceptional problem-solving capabilities, strategic thinking, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, innovative environment.
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.
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