The opportunity
The Internal Controls function sits within the broader Finance Risk Management (FRM) organization and plays a key role in strengthening the integrity, scalability, and reliability of OpenAI’s finance-critical operations.
What you'll do
Lead risk and controls support across multiple finance-critical business: domains, with a focus on building scalable foundations in a rapidly developing environment.
Assess risks across payments, equity, procurement flows, strategic: investments, people processes and related systems.
Identify where the control environment is weakest or most exposed, and: prioritize the highest-risk areas for remediation, control design, governance, or monitoring support.
Partner with operational, business, finance, legal, people, procurement,: corporate development, and technical teams to design controls that are effective in practice and integrated into day-to-day workflows.
Translate risks into clear operational requirements, including ownership: models, approval points, control objectives, monitoring expectations, reconciliations, evidence needs, system dependencies, and escalation paths.
Drive cross-functional remediation efforts where processes are unclear,: fragmented, overly manual, inconsistently documented, or dependent on immature systems/data.
What they're looking for
- Help teams balance speed and control by implementing fit-for-purpose: guardrails that support execution, preserve accountability, and avoid unnecessary friction.
- Support new or changing processes, systems, deals, vendors, payment flows,: and operating models by ensuring risk, control, governance, and evidence considerations are addressed upfront.
- Contribute to broader ICFR/SOX and operational risk readiness efforts by: strengthening control design, documentation, testing readiness, issue management, and leadership visibility across high-impact processes.
- + years of experience in financial risk management, operational risk,: internal controls, SOX/ICFR, internal audit, controllership, finance transformation, or related risk/control roles.
