Senior Manager, Accounts Payable Compute

About the Team

OpenAIs Procurement team makes working with the world easy fast and safe. We connect supplier readiness purchasing invoicing and payment so teams can move with confidence as OpenAI scales. Accounts Payable and Supplier Master Data Operations provide the trusted data dependable execution and financial discipline behind that experience.

About the Role

OpenAIs compute infrastructure depends on controlled execution of significant supplier spend. As Senior Manager Accounts Payable Compute you will own payment readiness and material exceptions across large-value business-critical obligations. Complex agreements evolve through amendments to pricing capacity service credits billing mechanics legal entities and payment schedules. You will translate approved obligations into accurate timely payments while navigating supplier disputes late approvals close deadlines and cross-system dependencies.

Were looking for a hands-on technical and operational leader who can interpret complex payment terms reconcile financial data diagnose system failures and build scalable workflows. Coordinating across multiple Compute Finance and Accounting teams is a core responsibility: you will establish decision owners align deadlines and move interdependent work forward in parallel. You will set the compute AP operating plan and lead delivery with Procurement Treasury Tax Finance Systems and existing processing teams with measurable improvements in controls service and capacity.

Location: This role is based in San Francisco CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role you will:

• Own the compute invoice-to-payment operating plan prioritize material exceptions and lead supplier escalations across complex high-value obligations and tight payment deadlines.

• Interpret executed contracts and approved amendments affecting pricing capacity credits billing mechanics entities and payment schedules; translate them into invoice-validation PO/change-order approval control and payment requirements.

• Personally investigate discrepancies supplier disputes missing credits duplicate risks and PO coverage gaps. Trace records field mappings approval statuses and sync failures across procurement and ERP systems; resolve root causes with accountable Finance Procurement supplier and Systems partners.

• Lead a payment-readiness cadence across Compute Finance and Accounting teams consolidate the complete obligation and payment view and resolve dependencies across charge validation PO coverage approvals funding and close. Track decision owners deadlines blockers and escalation paths so material payments move forward as approval lands.

• Confirm supplier site entity tax payment-method and approval readiness with the relevant owners before payment release.

• Coordinate funding forecasts and close-period payments with Treasury; reconcile invoice aging payment registers and bank/settlement evidence to support Accountings completeness and cutoff conclusions.

• Design matching tolerances validation rules exception routing evidence requirements and escalation thresholds with control and accounting partners preserving independent verification and segregation of duties.

• Map compute workload and usable capacity by task and complexity assign eligible work across employees contractors and shared-service teams and maintain trained backups and close coverage. Coach task owners and backups strengthen execution standards and build greater team autonomy.

• Set a prioritized improvement roadmap tied to compute business needs. Own requirements and acceptance criteria for workflow and AI improvements; lead operational testing and adoption with Finance Systems and Enablement verify reconciliation and fallback and measure service risk and verified capacity outcomes.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Bring 8 years in AP payments or related finance operations or equivalent experience with personal ownership of complex high-value supplier obligations and material exceptions from executed contract through invoice approval payment and settlement.

• Bring strong judgment on controls segregation of duties supplier verification reconciliations and close support in an audited environment.

• Can interpret complex pricing capacity credit billing and payment terms and translate contract amendments into executable workflows matching rules and clear decision ownership.

• Have led coordination across multiple finance and accounting teams on material payments reconciled competing priorities and deadlines and established clear decisions handoffs and escalation paths with suppliers and partners.

• Have independently led cross-functional operating improvements and delivery teams built demand-and-capacity plans maintained peak and backup coverage and demonstrated measurable results while staying close to execution.

• Can independently reconcile large financial datasets using advanced spreadsheets or comparable analytical tools establish complete populations and control totals and diagnose ERP workflow data and integration failures. Oracle Fusion and Zip experience is helpful.

• Have demonstrated practical application of AI in finance or operations with measurable gains in accuracy speed or capacity. Can translate business and control requirements into testable workflows and lead UAT with human review exception handling reconciliation fallback and ongoing monitoring.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure compute data centers or similarly complex supplier arrangements is required.

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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