# Accounts Payable Manager, Direct

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $158K – $175K
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

We're looking for an experienced Accounts Payable Manager to own and scale AP operations for Direct Procurement and Supply Chain. This is a hands-on IC leadership role, partnering with BPO teams to execute, while owning processes, systems, and outcomes. You'll resolve complex issues, support executive stakeholders, and maintain a high bar for accuracy and experience.

Key responsibilities include:

- Owning end-to-end AP operations across Direct Procurement: intake, 2/3-way match, exception handling, disbursements, supplier inquiries, and close activities.

- Acting as the primary escalation point, partnering with Accounting and cross-functional teams to resolve complex exceptions, payment holds, and close blockers.

- Building and scaling Direct AP foundations by defining receiving and asset management processes required for 3-way match.

- Improving performance by driving cycle time, first-pass yield, and on-time payment, while reducing root causes of top exceptions.

- Maintaining strong controls and compliance, including SOX-aligned approvals, audit readiness, and segregation of duties.

- Driving automation and system improvements across ERP and AP workflows (e.g., OCR, approvals, integrations) to reduce manual work and improve data quality.

- Leveraging AI-first approaches to AP operations,identifying opportunities to deploy automation, agents, and intelligent workflows to reduce manual effort, improve accuracy, and scale efficiently.

- Enhancing supplier and stakeholder experience by resolving escalations, enabling self-service, and partnering on operational improvements.

- Owning reporting and visibility across AP metrics, including aging, cycle time, exceptions, payment forecasts, and risk.

You might thrive in this role if you:

- Bring deep AP expertise and enjoy owning operations end-to-end, from invoice intake through close.

- Stay close to the work,comfortable jumping into queue, resolving exceptions, and unblocking payments when needed.

- Operate effectively in high-growth environments, balancing immediate execution with building scalable processes.

- Think in systems and automation, with experience improving workflows across ERP/AP tools and curiosity for AI-driven solutions.

- Exercise strong judgment with a controls mindset, and partner effectively across Accounting, Procurement, and Supply Chain.

- Take ownership and move with urgency, influencing outcomes even without direct authority.

- Have hands-on experience with tools like Oracle Fusion, Zip, Navan, VNDLY, Brightflag, Jira, or similar enterprise platforms,especially in integrated environments.

## Skills

### Required
- Accounts Payable
- ERP
- Procurement
- Supply Chain
- Automation
- System Improvement
- AI-First Approaches
- Data Quality
- Reporting
- Visibility

### Nice to have
- Oracle Fusion
- Zip
- Navan
- VNDLY
- Brightflag
- Jira

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