# Lead, Corporate Technical Accounting and Strategic Transactions

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Salary:** $216k – $240k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** U.S. Gaap, Technical Accounting, Financial Reporting, Asc 805, Asc 810, Asc 718, Asc 820, Asc 842, Impairment Testing, Consolidation, Mergers And Acquisitions, Stock-Based Compensation, Sox/Icfr, External Auditing, Journal Entries
**Posted:** 2026-08-19

> Leads complex technical accounting and strategic transaction matters, translating U.S. GAAP conclusions into reporting, close processes, disclosures, and controls. Requires 10+ years of progressive technical accounting or financial reporting experience, broad U.S. GAAP expertise, and strong cross-functional influence.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead complex technical corporate accounting matters across monthly and quarterly close, including financial statement presentation, disclosures, journal entries, reconciliations, ownership, and controls.
- Own technical accounting for financing, investment, and equity-related arrangements, including classification, measurement, presentation, and disclosure.
- Advise on leases, commitments, contingencies, guarantees, accruals, prepaid expenses, property and equipment, internal-use software, capitalization, and vendor or partnership arrangements.
- Advise on strategic investments, acquisitions, joint ventures, and partnerships, applying business-combination, equity-method, variable-interest-entity, consolidation, noncontrolling-interest, and purchase-accounting guidance.
- Lead impairment and asset-recoverability assessments, including testing, forecasts, fair-value and expected-credit-loss estimates, memoranda, controls, disclosures, and auditor review.
- Evaluate stock-based compensation, equity awards, earnings per share, capital structure, valuation, dilution, ownership economics, and financial statement presentation.
- Assess treasury and operating matters involving cash, liquidity, foreign currency, intercompany balances, related parties, and infrastructure or vendor commitments.
- Develop and defend evidence-backed technical accounting memoranda and position papers grounded in authoritative guidance, materiality, judgment, and economic substance.
- Translate accounting conclusions into close procedures, journal entries, disclosures, data requirements, ownership, and repeatable controls.
- Monitor emerging accounting standards and lead accounting-policy, change-management, reporting-process, and strategic-transaction initiatives.
- Partner with Financial Reporting and Internal Controls on disclosure controls, SOX/ICFR readiness, impairment monitoring, audit trails, valuations, tie-outs, and subsequent-event assessments.
- Design pragmatic accounting policies, playbooks, decision frameworks, and automation.

## Requirements
- CPA, CA, equivalent accounting qualification, or comparable technical-accounting expertise.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in technical accounting, accounting advisory, public accounting, corporate controllership, or complex financial reporting.
- Broad U.S. GAAP expertise across corporate accounting, leases, financial instruments, capitalized costs, share-based compensation, consolidation, impairment, and financial statement presentation.
- Experience applying ASC 205, 230, 250, 260, 320, 321, 323, 326, 350, 350-40, 360, 450, 460, 470, 480, 718, 805, 810, 815, 820, 830, 842, and 850 as applicable.
- Experience leading and defending significant accounting positions, preparing or reviewing audit-ready technical memoranda, evaluating competing accounting views, and working with external auditors.
- Experience with corporate close and reporting, acquisitions or investments, complex ownership structures, consolidation, impairment, and credit-loss assessments.
- Ability to influence Legal, Treasury, Tax, Corporate Accounting, Financial Reporting, FP&A, valuation, and business leaders while maintaining independent technical judgment.
- Strong communication skills for explaining complex accounting judgments and strategic implications.

## Compensation
- Annual salary: $216,000–$240,000

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