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Finance - San Francisco
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 provides the trusted data, dependable execution, and financial discipline behind that experience.
About the Role
We’re looking for an Accounts Payable Senior Manager to own and scale supplier payment operations. You’ll be responsible for accurate, timely payments, strong controls, and dependable service as OpenAI grows.
This is a hands-on leadership role. You’ll review and approve supplier payment runs, oversee work initiated by our BPO teams and AP agents, as well as personally resolve complex exceptions. You’ll stay close to execution during volume spikes and month-end close while building the processes, coverage, and systems the team needs to scale.
You’ll partner with Procurement, Supplier Master Data Operations, Accounting, Treasury, Tax, Finance Systems, and existing AP processing teams to make payments reliable from payment readiness through settlement reconciliation. You’ll clarify handoffs, address recurring failures, and improve ERP, banking, and procurement workflows. You’ll also apply automation and AI where they improve accuracy, service, or team capacity, with appropriate controls and human review.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office (Mon-Wed) per week and we offer relocation assistance to new employees.
We’re looking for someone with:
Strategic AP leadership and a hands-on approach to scaling systems and processes, with strong attention to detail.
Demonstrated ownership of complex indirect AP and supplier-payment operations, including PO and non-PO workflows.
Experience leading teams or outsourced delivery partnersance.
Strong payment-control judgment and experience investigating duplicates, bank-detail changes, and payment failures.
Working depth in AP accounting, reconciliations, accrual inputs, and close coordination.
Experience translating AP needs into ERP or procurement-system improvements with measurable results.
Clear communication and the ability to influence partners and senior stakeholders in ambiguous situations.
In this role, you will:
Own supplier payment operations: Review and approve payment runs for supplier and payment data accuracy, required approvals, and exception resolution. Oversee manual disbursements and payment inquiries within established authority and segregation-of-duties requirements.
Resolve complex exceptions: Act as the primary escalation point for payment holds, rejected or returned payments, potential duplicates, and close blockers. Work with Treasury, banking partners, Accounting, and AP processing teams to establish the status, resolve the cause, and verify the outcome before retrying or closing an issue.
Strengthen payment readiness: Partner with Procurement and existing AP teams to resolve invoice, PO, approval, and supplier-data gaps that affect payment. Establish clear owners and follow through on recurring upstream issues.
Support forecasting and close: Provide reliable payment forecasts and cash-needs inputs to Treasury. Reconcile payment activity and exceptions, including payments after AP close, so Accounting has the evidence it needs for close and cutoff decisions.
Maintain effective controls: Uphold SOX-aligned approvals, independent supplier bank-detail verification, segregation of duties, and audit-ready documentation. Support internal and external audits and remediate control gaps with the relevant owners.
Improve systems and processes: Define payment workflow and reporting requirements with Finance Systems and other partners. Test ERP and bank integrations, including host-to-host workflows, and introduce automation or AI with validated outputs, exception handling, and clear accountability.
Lead BPO delivery and capacity: Set clear SLAs and KPIsance, coach service partners, and maintain documented procedures and backup coverage. Plan for volume spikes and close demands.
Report performance and risk: Own clear reporting on payment timeliness, exceptions, rejection and return trends, forecast accuracy, service quality, and control issues. Explain priorities and progress to stakeholders and leadership.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Bring 8+ years in AP, payments, or related finance operations, or equivalent experience, with personal ownership of complex supplier-payment operations and material exceptions.
Have worked across indirect supplier spend in a high-growth or scaling environment, balancing immediate delivery with durable process improvements.
Understand how invoices, approvals, supplier records, payment instructions, bank status, settlement, and reconciliation fit together, and can investigate discrepancies across them.
Bring a strong controls mindset aligned to SOX, including practical judgment on bank-detail changes, duplicate prevention, segregation of duties, reconciliation, and close support.
Have designed or improved ERP/AP payment workflows and bank integrations, including host-to-host automation, with tested controls and measurable results.
Have led teams or BPO partners through clear expectations, coaching, capacity planning, and sustained improvements in service and quality.
Communicate clearly with suppliers, business stakeholders, and senior leaders, and can resolve issues across teams without losing ownership.
Are willing to work directly in payment queues, investigate failures, and support close when needed.
Experience with Oracle Fusion, Zip, or comparable integrated finance systems, and practical use of AI in controlled finance workflows, would be helpful.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable lawation technology systems and related data security obligations.
To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Compensation
$216K – $240K + Offers Equity
The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factorsance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following 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 (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
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
Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.
More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.
This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.
Finance - San Francisco
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 provides the trusted data, dependable execution, and financial discipline behind that experience.
About the Role
We’re looking for an Accounts Payable Senior Manager to own and scale supplier payment operations. You’ll be responsible for accurate, timely payments, strong controls, and dependable service as OpenAI grows.
This is a hands-on leadership role. You’ll review and approve supplier payment runs, oversee work initiated by our BPO teams and AP agents, as well as personally resolve complex exceptions. You’ll stay close to execution during volume spikes and month-end close while building the processes, coverage, and systems the team needs to scale.
You’ll partner with Procurement, Supplier Master Data Operations, Accounting, Treasury, Tax, Finance Systems, and existing AP processing teams to make payments reliable from payment readiness through settlement reconciliation. You’ll clarify handoffs, address recurring failures, and improve ERP, banking, and procurement workflows. You’ll also apply automation and AI where they improve accuracy, service, or team capacity, with appropriate controls and human review.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office (Mon-Wed) per week and we offer relocation assistance to new employees.
We’re looking for someone with:
Strategic AP leadership and a hands-on approach to scaling systems and processes, with strong attention to detail.
Demonstrated ownership of complex indirect AP and supplier-payment operations, including PO and non-PO workflows.
Experience leading teams or outsourced delivery partnersance.
Strong payment-control judgment and experience investigating duplicates, bank-detail changes, and payment failures.
Working depth in AP accounting, reconciliations, accrual inputs, and close coordination.
Experience translating AP needs into ERP or procurement-system improvements with measurable results.
Clear communication and the ability to influence partners and senior stakeholders in ambiguous situations.
In this role, you will:
Own supplier payment operations: Review and approve payment runs for supplier and payment data accuracy, required approvals, and exception resolution. Oversee manual disbursements and payment inquiries within established authority and segregation-of-duties requirements.
Resolve complex exceptions: Act as the primary escalation point for payment holds, rejected or returned payments, potential duplicates, and close blockers. Work with Treasury, banking partners, Accounting, and AP processing teams to establish the status, resolve the cause, and verify the outcome before retrying or closing an issue.
Strengthen payment readiness: Partner with Procurement and existing AP teams to resolve invoice, PO, approval, and supplier-data gaps that affect payment. Establish clear owners and follow through on recurring upstream issues.
Support forecasting and close: Provide reliable payment forecasts and cash-needs inputs to Treasury. Reconcile payment activity and exceptions, including payments after AP close, so Accounting has the evidence it needs for close and cutoff decisions.
Maintain effective controls: Uphold SOX-aligned approvals, independent supplier bank-detail verification, segregation of duties, and audit-ready documentation. Support internal and external audits and remediate control gaps with the relevant owners.
Improve systems and processes: Define payment workflow and reporting requirements with Finance Systems and other partners. Test ERP and bank integrations, including host-to-host workflows, and introduce automation or AI with validated outputs, exception handling, and clear accountability.
Lead BPO delivery and capacity: Set clear SLAs and KPIsance, coach service partners, and maintain documented procedures and backup coverage. Plan for volume spikes and close demands.
Report performance and risk: Own clear reporting on payment timeliness, exceptions, rejection and return trends, forecast accuracy, service quality, and control issues. Explain priorities and progress to stakeholders and leadership.
You might thrive in this role if you:
Bring 8+ years in AP, payments, or related finance operations, or equivalent experience, with personal ownership of complex supplier-payment operations and material exceptions.
Have worked across indirect supplier spend in a high-growth or scaling environment, balancing immediate delivery with durable process improvements.
Understand how invoices, approvals, supplier records, payment instructions, bank status, settlement, and reconciliation fit together, and can investigate discrepancies across them.
Bring a strong controls mindset aligned to SOX, including practical judgment on bank-detail changes, duplicate prevention, segregation of duties, reconciliation, and close support.
Have designed or improved ERP/AP payment workflows and bank integrations, including host-to-host automation, with tested controls and measurable results.
Have led teams or BPO partners through clear expectations, coaching, capacity planning, and sustained improvements in service and quality.
Communicate clearly with suppliers, business stakeholders, and senior leaders, and can resolve issues across teams without losing ownership.
Are willing to work directly in payment queues, investigate failures, and support close when needed.
Experience with Oracle Fusion, Zip, or comparable integrated finance systems, and practical use of AI in controlled finance workflows, would be helpful.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core the full spectrum of humanity.
We are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable lawation technology systems and related data security obligations.
To notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.
At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.
Compensation
$216K – $240K + Offers Equity
The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factorsance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following 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 (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
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
Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.
More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.
This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.
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Who's Hiring
- Kahana & Feld LLP12
- Jobot4
- ghj3
- Arclin3
- LANXESS3
Top Industries Hiring
- Staffing & Recruiting
- Energy
- Automotive
- Manufacturing
- Healthcare & Medical Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in director of accounts payable jobs.
- 7 or more years of accounts payable or accounting experience, including supervisory roles
- Proficiency with ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, or NetSuite
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related business field
- Experience managing full-cycle procure-to-pay processes and vendor relationships
- Strong knowledge of internal controls, audit compliance, and SOX requirements
- Preferred certification such as Certified Accounts Payable Professional (CAPP) or CPA
Tips for Your Director of Accounts Payable Job Search
Quantify your process improvement results
Hiring managers want to see the scale you've managed and what you changed. Replace vague statements with specifics: invoice volume processed monthly, days payable outstanding reduced, or duplicate payment rates eliminated after a system overhaul.
Highlight ERP and automation platform experience
Many postings screen for hands-on experience with SAP, Oracle, or Coupa. Name the exact modules you've configured or migrated, not just the platform name. Candidates who can describe AP automation implementations stand out from those who only listed the software.
Align your resume to procurement or shared services language
Job descriptions vary by company structure. Some focus on procure-to-pay cycle ownership, others on shared services leadership. Mirror the language in each posting so your resume passes ATS screening before a human ever reads it.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists director of accounts payable openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare for a case-based finance interview
Expect scenario questions about month-end close conflicts, vendor escalations, or implementing controls after an audit finding. Walk interviewers through your decision process, not just the outcome. Directors are evaluated on judgment, not just technical knowledge.
Negotiate total comp beyond base salary
At the director level, sign-on bonuses, annual incentive targets, and remote work arrangements are all negotiable. Get the full picture of the offer in writing before accepting. Many candidates leave value on the table by focusing only on base.
Director of Accounts Payable Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most director of accounts payables?
The companies hiring the most director of accounts payables right now include Kahana & Feld LLP, Jobot, and ghj, with the largest share of openings in California, Texas, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Healthcare systems, large manufacturers, and enterprise technology companies tend to maintain consistent demand for this role.
How many director of accounts payable jobs are remote?
About 54% of director of accounts payable openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, with remote arrangements most common in shared services and corporate finance environments. Roles tied to on-site operations, plant accounting, or hands-on team management are more likely to require a physical presence.
How do you become a director of accounts payable?
Most directors of accounts payable build toward the role by progressing from AP specialist to AP manager, taking on team leadership and process ownership along the way. Earning an ERP certification or accounting credential strengthens candidacy. Experience leading an AP automation project, closing a system migration, or managing an audit is often the differentiator that moves candidates into director-level consideration.
Can I get hired as a director of accounts payable without direct director experience?
Yes, many companies hire AP managers into their first director role if the scope of their current work is comparable. Focus your resume on team size managed, budget oversight, and cross-functional projects like system implementations or policy redesigns. A demonstrated record of reducing processing errors or improving payment cycles often carries more weight than the job title itself.
What does the director of accounts payable interview process look like?
Most director of accounts payable interviews include an initial recruiter screen, a panel interview with the CFO or controller, and at least one technical or scenario-based round. You'll likely be asked about your approach to vendor disputes, your experience with controls and audits, and how you've led teams through system changes. Some companies also include a process improvement case or a brief presentation.
Where can I find and apply to director of accounts payable jobs?
You can find and apply to director of accounts payable jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your experience and apply directly to each listing from the page.
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