Senior Manager, Accounts Payable - Compute

The role

You will own the compute invoice-to-payment operating plan and manage payment readiness for high-value supplier obligations. You will interpret complex contracts, resolve supplier disputes, and coordinate across Compute Finance and Accounting teams.

What you will do

• Own the compute invoice-to-payment operating plan and lead supplier escalations.
• Interpret executed contracts and amendments to create payment requirements.
• Investigate discrepancies, supplier disputes, and missing credits.
• Resolve root causes across procurement and ERP systems.
• Lead a payment-readiness cadence across Compute Finance and Accounting teams.
• Confirm supplier, site, entity, tax, and payment-method readiness before payment.
• Coordinate funding forecasts and close-period payments with Treasury.
• Design matching tolerances, validation rules, and escalation thresholds.
• Map compute workload and assign work across employees and contractors.
• Set a prioritized improvement roadmap and own requirements for workflow and AI improvements.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in AP, payments, or related finance operations, or equivalent experience.
• Personal ownership of complex, high-value supplier obligations and material exceptions.
• 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.
• Experience leading coordination across multiple finance and accounting teams.
• Experience leading cross-functional operating improvements and delivery teams.
• Ability to independently reconcile large financial datasets using advanced spreadsheets or comparable analytical tools.
• Demonstrated practical application of AI in finance or operations.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, compute, data centers, or similarly complex supplier arrangements.

Nice to have

• Oracle Fusion experience
• Zip experience

Benefits

• Relocation assistance

Before you apply

• Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.