Senior Manager, Accounts Payable - Compute

OpenAI's 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. OpenAI's 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. 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.

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, and 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, and 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, and 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, 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, and measure service, risk, and verified capacity outcomes

Requirements

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; 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, matching rules, and clear decision ownership; Experience leading coordination across multiple finance and accounting teams on material payments, reconciling competing priorities and deadlines, and establishing clear decisions, handoffs, and escalation paths with suppliers and partners; Experience independently leading cross-functional operating improvements and delivery teams, building demand-and-capacity plans, maintaining peak and backup coverage, and demonstrating measurable results while staying close to execution; Ability to 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; Demonstrated practical application of AI in finance or operations, with measurable gains in accuracy, speed, or capacity, and ability to 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

Nice to have

Experience with Oracle Fusion; Experience with Zip

Benefits

Relocation assistance for new employees