Senior Manager, Accounts Payable - Compute
San Francisco · 8+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Oct 1, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 8+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco
About OpenAI
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About the role
- The Senior Manager, Accounts Payable — Compute will own payment readiness and material exceptions for high-value, business-critical compute infrastructure obligations.
- This role involves translating complex contract amendments into accurate payment workflows while coordinating across Finance, Procurement, Treasury, and Tax teams.
- The position requires a hands-on leader to diagnose system failures, establish scalable workflows, and drive operational improvements in a high-growth environment.
Responsibilities
- Own the compute invoice-to-payment operating plan and lead supplier escalations for high-value obligations.
- Interpret executed contracts and amendments to define invoice-validation, PO, and payment requirements.
- Investigate discrepancies, supplier disputes, and PO coverage gaps by tracing records across procurement and ERP systems.
- Lead a payment-readiness cadence to resolve dependencies across charge validation, approvals, and funding.
- Confirm supplier, tax, and entity readiness prior to payment release.
- Coordinate funding forecasts and close-period payments with Treasury.
- Design matching tolerances, validation rules, and escalation thresholds with control partners.
- Map compute workloads and assign tasks across employees, contractors, and shared-service teams.
- Set a prioritized improvement roadmap and own requirements for workflow and AI-driven process enhancements.
- Lead operational testing and adoption of new systems with Finance Systems and Enablement teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years in AP, payments, or related finance operations with experience managing complex, high-value supplier obligations.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, compute, data centers, or similarly complex supplier arrangements.
- Strong judgment on controls, segregation of duties, supplier verification, and reconciliations in an audited environment.
- Ability to interpret complex pricing, capacity, credit, and billing terms to create executable workflows.
- Experience leading cross-functional coordination across multiple finance and accounting teams.
- Ability to independently reconcile large financial datasets using advanced spreadsheets or analytical tools.
- Experience diagnosing ERP workflow, data, and integration failures.
- Demonstrated practical application of AI in finance or operations to improve accuracy, speed, or capacity.
Workplace
- Based in San Francisco, CA.
- Hybrid work model requiring 3 days in the office per week.
Skills
- Accounts Payable
- ERP Systems
- Oracle Fusion
- Zip
