M&A Finance Integration Lead
San Francisco · 10+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Sep 23, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 10+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco
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.
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About the role
- As an M&A Finance Integration Lead, you will own and scale OpenAI’s finance integration model.
- This is a highly cross-functional, transactions driven role for someone who can bring structure to ambiguity, translate deal complexity into executable workplans, and drive successful M&A outcomes across multiple teams.
- You will serve as the central point of accountability to oversee finance workstreams across the full M&A lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Define and build standardized, scalable M&A finance integration frameworks.
- Drive consistent execution across multiple, simultaneous M&A integrations.
- Ensure timely, accurate M&A diligence including historical financials, revenue, equity, tax, and procurement.
- Lead integration planning for deal close readiness across accounting, valuation, payroll, banking, entities, and controls.
- Translate deal terms and integration strategy into actionable workplans, timelines, and dependencies.
- Ensure on track deal execution accounting, operational integration, systems cutover, and reporting.
- Proactively surface post-close deal integration risks and drive mitigation plans.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience across M&A, deal integration and finance transformation, ideally in an Investment Banking/PE backed environment and/or high-growth technology company.
- Demonstrated experience leading multiple, concurrent M&A negotiations and deal integrations with complex cross-functional dependencies.
- Strong understanding of deal accounting, controls and reporting in a fast changing environment.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
- A Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, or a related field
Preferred qualifications
- CPA or MBA a plus
Benefits
- Relocation assistance to new employees
Workplace
- Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week
