Senior Manager, Accounts Payable - Payments
OpenAIVisit OpenAI website
AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.
49 current maintainers29 active leads5 new active leads117 lead step-downs16 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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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 and scale supplier payment operations, reviewing and approving payment runs, resolving complex exceptions, and overseeing BPO teams and AP agents. You will maintain SOX-aligned controls, support forecasting and close, improve ERP and banking workflows with automation and AI, and report on performance and risk. The role is hybrid in San Francisco, 3 days a week in the office (Mon-Wed).
Requirements
- 8+ years in AP, payments, or related finance operations
- Ownership of complex supplier-payment operations and material exceptions
- Experience with indirect supplier spend in high-growth environments
- Strong SOX-aligned controls mindset
- Experience designing or improving ERP/AP payment workflows and bank integrations
- Experience leading teams or BPO partners
- Clear communication with senior stakeholders
- Experience with Oracle Fusion, Zip, or comparable systems is helpful
Responsibilities
- Own supplier payment operations and review and approve payment runs
- Resolve complex exceptions such as payment holds, returns, and duplicates
- Strengthen payment readiness with Procurement and AP teams
- Provide payment forecasts and cash-needs inputs to Treasury and support close
- Maintain SOX-aligned controls and support audits
- Improve systems and processes, test ERP and bank integrations, and introduce automation or AI
- Lead BPO delivery and capacity with SLAs and KPIs
- Report on payment performance and risk
Benefits
- Equity
- Hybrid work model
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance with HSA employer contributions
- Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter pre-tax 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 company 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 assistance
- Charitable donation matching and wellness stipends
- Performance-related bonus
