You will partner with Deal Desk, Legal, Go-to-Market, RevOps, Billing, Product, Strategic Finance, and Revenue Accounting to help OpenAI scale its commercialization efforts while maintaining strong accounting rigor, audit readiness, and operational practicality. This role is critical to ensuring our technical revenue accounting policies, decision frameworks, and processes remain robust as the business grows and changes.

In this role, you will:

• Review complex customer arrangements to identify revenue recognition implications under ASC 606, including non-standard terms, bundled offerings, usage-based pricing, committed spend, and contract modifications.
• Develop, document, and communicate technical accounting conclusions that are both well-supported and operationally executable.
• Partner with Deal Desk, Legal, GTM, RevOps, Billing, Product, and Strategic Finance to evaluate deal structures and provide practical accounting guidance.
• Help design and improve scalable revenue accounting processes, systems, controls, and workflows to support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end reporting.
• Support the accounting implications of new product launches, pricing changes, and evolving commercial models.
• Prepare and maintain technical accounting memos, policy documentation, and audit-ready support for complex revenue positions.
• Assist with internal and external audit processes and contribute to cross-functional initiatives that improve the quality, speed, and scalability of revenue accounting.

You might thrive in this role if you have:

• 8+ years of relevant experience across public accounting, accounting advisory, technical accounting, revenue accounting, or industry roles in technology, SaaS, AI, cloud, infrastructure, or other complex business models.
• Deep knowledge of ASC 606 and experience applying revenue recognition guidance to complex customer arrangements.
• Experience evaluating non-standard contracts, contract modifications, variable consideration, multi-element arrangements, principal-agent questions, material rights, and usage-based or subscription revenue models.
• Strong technical accounting judgment paired with the ability to translate complex conclusions into clear, practical guidance for cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience partnering effectively with teams such as Deal Desk, Legal, GTM, RevOps, Billing, Product, Strategic Finance, and external auditors.
• A track record of building or improving scalable processes, systems, controls, or workflows in a fast-moving environment.
• Experience implementing or improving revenue automation or revenue accounting systems such as Zuora Revenue, NetSuite ARM, or similar tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence both finance and non-finance audiences.
• Experience in Big 4 or national-firm accounting advisory, including ARA, FAAS, CMAAS, AAS, or similar practices.
• CPA required (inactive status acceptable).

Experience Level: Senior Employment Type: Full-time Workplace Type: Hybrid Category: Finance Industry: Technology Salary Range: $162K – $180K Salary Min: 162000 Salary Max: 180000 Salary Currency: USD Salary Period: year Required Skills: ASC 606, revenue recognition, technical accounting, revenue accounting, public accounting, accounting advisory, industry roles in technology, SaaS, AI, cloud, infrastructure, contract modifications, variable consideration, multi-element arrangements, principal-agent questions, material rights, usage-based or subscription revenue models, scalable processes, systems, controls, or workflows, revenue automation or revenue accounting systems, excellent written and verbal communication skills, Big 4 or national-firm accounting advisory, CPA Preferred Skills: None

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We are looking for a Technical Revenue Accounting professional to join our Accounting Team. In this role, you will execute complex ASC 606 technical evaluations, draft comprehensive revenue accounting memos, and provide strategic accounting guidance on new product revenue recognition treatments and go-to-market initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Author detailed ASC 606 technical accounting memos analysing complex revenue recognition scenarios and providing accounting conclusions
• Evaluate and establish revenue recognition treatment for new product offerings, including performance obligation identification, SSP evaluation, and contract modification assessments
• Advise business stakeholders on revenue accounting implications of new go-to-market strategies, pricing models, and unique commercial arrangements
• Review revenue contracts and prepare technical accounting documentation, including ASC 606 checklists and position papers to ensure revenue recognition compliance
• Lead technical research initiatives on emerging revenue recognition issues and present authoritative findings to senior management
• Develop and maintain comprehensive revenue recognition policies, procedures, and technical guidance documentation
• Translate complex technical accounting requirements into actionable business guidance for non-accounting stakeholders
• Prepare for revenue-related month end close activities and flux analysis
• Build and maintain relationships with cross-functional stakeholders to drive effective collaboration
• Participate in and contribute to process improvement and system implementation projects

You may be a good fit if you:

• Have 7+ years of progressive accounting experience, with extensive expertise in ASC 606 implementation and complex revenue recognition scenarios
• Have demonstrated experience drafting technical accounting memos, position papers, and revenue recognition assessments
• Have strong knowledge of ASC 606 with experience in performance obligation analysis, contract modification accounting, and variable consideration treatment
• Ability to articulate complex accounting positions clearly, and proactively conduct technical accounting research to identify emerging revenue recognition challenges
• Have hands-on experience with revenue recognition tools (e.g., NetSuite ARM, Oracle Fusion, Workday Financial Management, Zuora RevPro)
• Have proven project management skills with ability to drive results
• Have a demonstrated ability to thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments

Strong candidates may have:

• A Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA preferred with demonstrated technical accounting expertise
• Experience with technical accounting advisory work, including revenue recognition consulting or implementation experience
• Experience working with consumption-based and subscription-based revenue models
• Knowledge of AI/ML, SaaS and technology sector revenue recognition complexities

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience. Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work.

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