Inventory and Cost Accounting Lead

Qualifications Required

Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field. 8+ years of experience in manufacturing accounting, cost accounting, or inventory accounting. Significant experience within consumer hardware, electronics, robotics, semiconductor, or complex manufacturing industries. Deep expertise in standard costing, inventory valuation, manufacturing variances, overhead absorption, and inventory close processes. Strong experience working with contract manufacturers and global supply chain environments. Hands-on experience with Oracle Fusion ERP, particularly Costing and Inventory modules. Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP related to inventory and manufacturing accounting. Experience building scalable accounting processes, controls, and reporting infrastructure. Excellent analytical, communication, and cross-functional partnership skills. Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and operate effectively in ambiguous environments. Preferred

Qualifications CPA and/or public accounting background. Experience supporting hardware product launches and rapid manufacturing scale-up. Experience designing or implementing ERP systems and finance process transformations. Experience in a high-growth technology or pre-IPO/public company environment. Experience building or leading teams in complex operational accounting environments. Familiarity with manufacturing operations, supply chain planning, and procurement workflows. Why This Role Matters This role will play a foundational part in building the accounting infrastructure that supports the next generation of AI hardware products. You will help shape the systems, policies, controls, and operational processes that enable scalable manufacturing operations, reliable financial reporting, and launch readiness as the business rapidly grows. You’ll have the opportunity to work cross-functionally with world-class teams at the forefront of AI, robotics, and consumer hardware innovation while helping build a best-in-class hardware controllership organization from the ground up. 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.

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