The opportunity
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.
What you'll do
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. Trace records, field mappings, approval statuses, and sync failures across procurement and ERP systems; 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. Track decision owners, deadlines, blockers, and escalation paths so material payments move forward as approval lands.
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.
What they're looking for
- 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. 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; lead operational testing and adoption with Finance Systems and Enablement, verify reconciliation and fallback, and measure service, risk, and verified capacity outcomes.
- 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.
