# Structured Finance Sr Associate

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Salary:** $185k – $260k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Financial Modeling, debt sizing, cash-flow waterfalls, covenant analysis, scenario evaluation, project finance, structured finance, infrastructure finance, private equity, transaction documentation, diligence
**Posted:** 2026-07-27

> Serve as a technical execution engine for OpenAI's Capital Markets team, owning financial models, analysis, diligence, and execution for structured and project financings that support AI infrastructure. Requires 4-6 years relevant experience, deep modeling skills, and maturity to work directly with senior stakeholders and counterparties.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Translate financing objectives into clear analyses, recommendations, timelines, and deliverables.
- Support senior transactors on complex financings, including structuring, documentation, diligence, negotiation, and closing.
- Lead analysis, diligence, process tracking, and execution workstreams for financing transactions.
- Own transaction models, including debt sizing, cash-flow waterfalls, sensitivities, covenant analysis, and scenario evaluation.
- Work directly with internal stakeholders, banks, investors, counsel, advisors, and other counterparties.
- Review transaction documentation and help ensure commercial, financial, and diligence details are reflected accurately.
- Manage high-volume, detail-intensive workstreams in a lean team environment.
- Help develop repeatable tools, processes, and analytical infrastructure as the capital markets function scales.

## Requirements
- At least 4-6 years of directly relevant experience in project finance, structured finance, infrastructure finance, private equity, or a closely related field.
- Deep financial modeling capability, including debt sizing, cash-flow waterfalls, sensitivities, covenant analysis, and scenario evaluation.
- Meaningful involvement in financings that reached close, with a clear understanding of process, diligence, and documentation.
- Experience at a bank, private equity or infrastructure investment firm, data center developer, infrastructure operator, or specialist advisory firm.
- The ability to own workstreams independently, rather than only producing analysis on instruction.
- Strong attention to detail and comfort operating in high-intensity transaction environments.
- The maturity to interact directly with senior internal stakeholders and external counterparties.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Training under a well-regarded infrastructure or project finance group, platform, or senior leader.
- Exposure to more than one financing product or capital source.
- Experience in data centers, digital infrastructure, power, energy transition, or other capital-intensive infrastructure sectors.
- Strong learning velocity and willingness to work without rigid role boundaries.
- Willingness to work from San Francisco.

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