The opportunity
OpenAI Finance is responsible for ensuring the organization is set up for success in pursuit of its mission.
What you'll do
Own OpenAI’s global indirect tax compliance operating model and end-to-end: compliance lifecycle across VAT, GST, DST, and related regimes, ensuring timely, accurate, and controlled compliance across an expanding portfolio of jurisdictions.
Lead registration lifecycle management, including threshold monitoring,: obligation assessments, new registrations, amendments, and deregistrations, with clear governance over OpenAI’s global registration footprint.
Oversee ongoing compliance activities, including data collection and: validation, return preparation and review, tax payments, reconciliations, statutory reporting, and documented approvals, with clear accountability across internal teams and external providers.
Identify opportunities to enhance compliance processes and technology,: building the business case for initiatives that improve efficiency, strengthen controls, reduce risk, and support future growth.
Assess compliance readiness by proactively identifying gaps in processes,: controls, data, systems, and resourcing, and driving remediation efforts to support scalable growth and new market launches.
Select, onboard, and oversee external compliance providers and advisors,: establishing clear expectations, monitoring service quality and performance, and escalating risks and issues early.
What they're looking for
- Serve as the primary point of contact for indirect tax audits, examinations,: and tax authority inquiries, coordinating cross-functional responses and driving matters through resolution.
- Strengthen the global control environment by designing and enhancing review: procedures, governance frameworks, reconciliations, and monitoring activities that support continuous audit readiness.
- Partner with Finance leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to: communicate emerging compliance risks, regulatory developments, and recommendations, translating complex tax requirements into practical business actions.
- + years of progressive indirect tax experience, including substantial: experience overseeing international indirect tax compliance across multiple jurisdictions within a multinational organization.
