Senior Manager, Accounts Payable - Compute
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
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About OpenAI
OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.
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About the Role
You will own the compute invoice-to-payment operating plan and lead resolution of material exceptions across large supplier obligations. You will interpret contracts and amendments, investigate discrepancies and disputes, trace issues across procurement and ERP systems, coordinate payment readiness with Finance, Accounting, Treasury and Procurement, design controls, manage team capacity, and lead workflow and AI improvements. The role is based in San Francisco with a hybrid model of 3 days in the office per week.
Requirements
- 8+ years in AP, payments or related finance operations with ownership of complex high-value supplier obligations
- Strong judgment on controls, segregation of duties, supplier verification, reconciliations and close support
- Ability to interpret complex pricing, capacity, credit, billing and payment terms
- Experience leading coordination across multiple finance and accounting teams
- Experience leading cross-functional operating improvements and building capacity plans
- Ability to reconcile large datasets and diagnose ERP workflow and integration failures; Oracle Fusion and Zip helpful
- Practical application of AI in finance or operations and leading UAT
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, compute, data centers or similarly complex supplier arrangements
Responsibilities
- Own the compute invoice-to-payment operating plan and lead supplier escalations
- Interpret contracts and amendments into invoice-validation, PO, approval, control and payment requirements
- Investigate discrepancies, supplier disputes, missing credits, duplicate risks and PO coverage gaps
- Lead a payment-readiness cadence across Compute Finance and Accounting teams
- Confirm supplier, entity, tax, payment-method and approval readiness before payment release
- Coordinate funding forecasts and close-period payments with Treasury and reconcile aging and payment registers
- Design matching tolerances, validation rules and exception routing preserving segregation of duties
- Map workload and capacity, assign work across teams and coach task owners and backups
- Set an improvement roadmap and lead workflow and AI improvements through testing and adoption
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with employer HSA contributions
- Pre-tax Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA and commuter accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid parental leave up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents
- Paid medical and caregiver leave up to 8 weeks
- Flexible PTO for exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays and coordinated office closures
- 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 support
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
- Performance-related bonus
