# Senior Manager, Accounts Payable - Compute **Company**: OpenAI **Location**: San Francisco, CA **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: Full time **Salary**: $216K - $240K **Category**: Finance **Industry**: Technology **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186 **Apply**: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/dceb6d3d-65a7-4676-8d24-f0cf45776ef0?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_15da37d2-4dc ## Description ## Compensation The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The salary range for this position is $216K - $240K per year, with additional compensation including generous equity, performance-related bonuses, and benefits. ## Benefits - Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts - Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit) - 401(k) retirement plan with employer match - Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks) - Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees - 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time - Mental health and wellness support - Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage - Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth - Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible - Relocation support for eligible employees ## About the Team 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. ## About the Role As Senior Manager, Accounts Payable , Compute, you will own payment readiness and material exceptions across large-value, business-critical obligations. You will translate approved obligations into accurate, timely payments while navigating supplier disputes, late approvals, close deadlines, and cross-system dependencies. ## 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; 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. - 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; 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 by task and complexity, assign eligible work across employees, contractors, and shared-service teams, and maintain trained backups and close coverage. - Set a prioritized improvement roadmap tied to compute business needs. ## Requirements - Bring 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. - Experience with cloud infrastructure, compute, data centers, or similarly complex supplier arrangements is required. ## Skills ### Required - Accounts Payable - Payment Processing - Contract Management - Supplier Relationship Management - Financial Analysis - Operational Improvement - Leadership - Communication - Project Management ### Nice to have - Oracle Fusion - Zip - AI in Finance - Cloud Infrastructure - Compute - Data Centers --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openai/dceb6d3d-65a7-4676-8d24-f0cf45776ef0?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)