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Senior Manager, Accounts Payable - Compute

OpenAI· Finance
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Hybrid (San Francisco)$216k - $240kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior Manager, Accounts Payable responsible for payment readiness and material exceptions across large-value, business-critical Compute supplier obligations. Lead cross-team coordination, build scalable workflows, and drive improvements in controls, service, and capacity within OpenAI’s hybrid San Francisco office.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • 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 Accounting’s 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.
  • 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.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in AP, payments, or related finance operations, or equivalent experience, with ownership of complex, high-value supplier obligations from executed contract through invoice approval, payment, and settlement.
  • Strong judgment on controls, segregation of duties, supplier verification, reconciliations, and close support in an audited environment.
  • Ability to interpret complex pricing, capacity, credit, billing, and payment terms and translate contract amendments into executable workflows and who is responsible for decisions.
  • Experience coordinating across multiple finance and accounting teams on material payments, with clear decisions, handoffs, and escalation paths with suppliers and partners.
  • Proven track record leading cross-functional operating improvements, demand-and-capacity planning, and achieving measurable results while maintaining execution focus.
  • Ability to reconcile large financial datasets using advanced spreadsheets or analytical tools; Oracle Fusion and Zip experience is helpful.
  • Practical application of AI in finance or operations with measurable gains; ability to lead UAT with human review, exception handling, reconciliation, and monitoring.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure, compute, data centers, or similarly complex supplier arrangements.

Skills

Required:Accounts Payable managementContract interpretationERP and data reconciliationProcess improvement and project leadershipCross-functional coordination

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
  • Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
  • 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
  • Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
  • Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
  • 13+ paid company holidays and additional paid office closures, plus paid sick or safe time
  • Mental health and wellness support
  • Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
  • Annual learning and development stipend
  • Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits
  • Relocation assistance for eligible employees
  • Additional taxable fringe benefits such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
Last updated Oct 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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