# Hardware Finance Manager

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Salary:** $234k – $260k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Financial Modeling, Forecasting, Variance Analysis, Hardware Cogs, Inventory Planning, Manufacturing Variance Analysis, Bom Costing, Supply Chain Finance, Financial Systems, Data Governance, Internal Controls, Process Automation, Scenario Analysis, Stakeholder Management
**Posted:** 2026-08-19

> Owns end-to-end finance for an assigned hardware COGS and inventory area, including forecasting, close, variance analysis, systems, and controls. The role requires 8+ years of consumer hardware or complex physical-product finance experience and deep expertise across at least two relevant domains.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own an assigned area of hardware COGS and inventory end to end.
- Own forecasting, close, and business variance analysis for the assigned scope.
- Provide hardware leadership with variance explanations, trend analysis, and forward-looking signals connecting business and supplier decisions to inventory, cash, COGS, and margin.
- Partner with business teams and Finance Platforms to establish financial data, systems, and dashboards.
- Ensure data integrity and governance through definitions, ownership, validation checks, controls, and review processes.
- Improve forecasting, reporting, systems, and finance processes for reliability and scalability.
- Build cross-functional relationships and identify material risks, opportunities, and tradeoffs.
- Develop scenarios and recommendations for leadership decision-making.
- Partner across Supply Chain, Operations, Product, Accounting, Systems/Data, and Finance.
- Drive alignment without formal authority and communicate complex financial issues clearly to senior stakeholders.
- Develop expertise in an adjacent COGS or inventory domain as priorities evolve.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of consumer hardware or complex physical-product finance experience.
- Deep, hands-on expertise across multiple relevant hardware-finance domains, with ownership in at least two.
- Experience leading ambiguous cross-functional initiatives with material impact.
- Strong financial modeling, analytical, communication, and stakeholder-influence skills.
- Experience building scalable processes, systems, frameworks, or automated workflows.
- Ability to identify accounting, control, data, and source implications and engage appropriate owners.
- Ability to lead through influence and improve others’ effectiveness.

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