Finance Manager, Real Estate and Workplace Services

About the Team

The Real Estate & Workplace (REW) team at OpenAI designs and manages spaces, programs, and services that empower our employees and advance our mission. Our team covers a diverse range of functions, including leasing, global operations, analytics, construction, workplace experience, and employee services. We strive to optimize the employee experience while maintaining operational excellence and financial discipline by focusing on flexibility, cost effectiveness, intentional design, and scalable, people-centric solutions.

About the Role

We are hiring a Financial Analyst to directly support the financial strategy, budgeting, forecasting, and analytical decision-making for OpenAI's Real Estate and Workplace functions. Reporting to the Head of Leasing & Transactions and partnering closely with the Head of Global Workplace Operations, you'll collaborate closely with stakeholders across REW pillars including Leasing, Workplace Operations, Design & Construction, Workplace Experience, and Global Food Programs.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA, utilizing a hybrid work model (3 days per week in-office). Relocation assistance is available for new hires.

In this role, you will:

• Support annual budgeting, quarterly forecasts, monthly financial reporting, and variance analysis for REW functions globally.

• Provide financial analysis for leasing transactions, workplace build-outs, and major operational initiatives.

• Collaborate with the REW Analytics team to leverage data-driven insights in tracking real estate spend, occupancy forecasts, and vendor management.

• Partner with Workplace Experience and Global Food Program leads to optimize financial models around employee services, amenities, and global catering contracts.

• Drive cross-functional alignment with Design & Construction and Facilities teams to forecast capital expenditures, project budgets, and cash flow analyses.

• Support lease administration, audits, and strategic negotiations by providing timely financial assessments and recommendations.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• 5+ years of experience in financial analysis, preferably, FP&A within Real Estate and Workplace finance roles for fast-paced, growth-oriented environments.

• Strong experience building financial models, conducting budget forecasting, and performing variance analysis specifically related to real estate, construction, or workplace operations.

• Excellent analytical skills and proficiency with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Excel, Anaplan).

• Demonstrated experience managing multiple priorities and delivering high-quality financial insights under tight deadlines.

• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills to translate financial data into clear, actionable recommendations for non-finance stakeholders.

• Proven ability to collaborate effectively across diverse teams and global functions.

• Enthusiasm for innovation, technology, and using artificial intelligence.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

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