Strategic Finance Lead, Corporate Finance and Capital Strategy
Shapes financial strategy for OpenAI's long-term investments and capital decisions. Builds financial models, executes strategic initiatives, and leads cross-functional workstreams requiring 12+ years in strategic/corporate finance.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Shape financial strategy for major long-term investments, capital structure decisions, and broader strategic decision-making.
- Build rigorous financial models and scalable frameworks to evaluate strategic initiatives, funding options, tradeoffs, and risk.
- Structure and help execute complex strategic initiatives in partnership with cross-functional teams.
- Translate ambiguous technical and business inputs into clear recommendations and decision-ready materials for executives, the board, and other senior stakeholders.
- Lead high-priority cross-functional workstreams from concept through execution, bringing strong judgment, ownership, and communication in fast-moving situations.
- Help build an AI-native finance organization by applying AI to improve workflows, decision-making, and execution across finance processes.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience across strategic finance, corporate finance, capital markets, investment banking, infrastructure finance, or related fields.
- Strong understanding of capital structure, financing strategy, debt markets, and large-scale investment evaluation.
- Experience operating in high-growth, high-complexity environments with the ability to navigate ambiguity and move quickly.
- Exceptional financial modeling, strategic thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Strong executive presence with the ability to communicate clearly across investors, executives, and technical stakeholders.
- High-agency operating style that combines strategic perspective with a willingness to build directly.
- Excitement around using AI as a core operating advantage, with a mindset toward building AI-native workflows rather than traditional finance processes.
- Excellent judgment, low ego, and a collaborative approach to solving hard problems.
Skills
Financial Modeling, Capital Structure, Debt Markets, Strategic Finance, Corporate Finance, Capital Markets, Investment Banking, Excel, AI Workflows, Cross-Functional Execution
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