Business Systems Lead, Procure-to-Pay

Details

The Finance Platform & Technology team builds and scales the systems and data architecture that power OpenAI’s core financial operations. The team enables business agility, compliance, and operational excellence across procure-to-pay, quote-to-cash, supply chain, financial planning, and asset management. It partners with Procurement, Accounting, Tax, Legal, Security, Data, and Engineering to modernize workflows through platform design, integrations, automation, and trusted data.

As a Business Systems Lead for Procure-to-Pay, you will be a hands-on engineer designing, building, and operating integrations and first-party applications that power procurement workflows. You will translate business needs into secure, scalable software, APIs, data flows, and automation across Oracle Fusion, Zip, and connected platforms.

The role is based in San Francisco, California, with a hybrid work model requiring three days in the office per week.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate integrations across Oracle Fusion, Zip, and connected systems using APIs, events, messaging, and batch interfaces.
• Build first-party procurement applications, backend services, and user-facing workflows for intake, approvals, transaction visibility, and exception resolution.
• Write maintainable code and reusable integration components using version control, code review, automated tests, and repeatable deployment and rollback practices.
• Define data contracts, mappings, durable identifiers, lifecycle states, and authoritative data ownership across systems.
• Engineer reliable processing through validation, idempotency, retries, monitoring, alerting, reconciliation, recovery, and readback from the system of record.
• Build and evaluate AI-enabled workflows using OpenAI technology, with scoped tool access, explicit approval boundaries, audit trails, and safe handling of errors or uncertain outputs.
• Make targeted Oracle Fusion and Zip configuration changes for intake fields, routing, approvals, and supplier settings, in partnership with Procurement, Accounts Payable, and functional specialists.
• Own technical testing and release readiness, including integration and regression tests, business user acceptance testing, migration validation, staged rollout, and operational documentation.
• Own the long-term procurement applications and integrations roadmap, including build-versus-configure decisions.
• Own production health and incident resolution, protect access and financial controls, and deliver durable fixes that reduce failed transactions, manual intervention, and procurement cycle time.

Requirements

• Six or more years of experience in enterprise integrations, software engineering, or business systems engineering, with substantial hands-on responsibility for production solutions.
• Ability to write, review, test, and debug production code in Python, TypeScript, or a comparable language.
• Proficiency with SQL for investigating data quality, reconciling systems, and validating outcomes.
• Hands-on experience integrating with Oracle Fusion and understanding Procurement and Payables transactions, APIs, data models, and interfaces.
• Experience designing and shipping APIs, services, or internal applications, and explaining implementation choices, failure modes, and production results.
• Understanding of REST APIs, JSON, authentication and authorization, data modeling, and event-driven or message-based integration patterns.
• Experience building and operating integrations using OIC, Workato, or comparable platforms, with the ability to choose between custom code, native APIs, and integration platforms.
• Experience with production troubleshooting and service reliability, including observability, retries, reconciliation, incident response, and safe recovery.
• Understanding of the procure-to-pay lifecycle, including approvals, supplier data, purchase orders, receiving, matching, invoices, payments, downstream accounting, and controls.
• Ability to make targeted functional configuration changes and validate their business impact. Experience with Zip is a plus.
• Knowledge of secure engineering and financial-control practices, including least-privilege access, segregation of duties, sensitive-change approvals, and auditable transaction histories.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to work with Procurement, Accounts Payable, Accounting, Risk, and Engineering teams.
• Interest in building and evaluating AI-enabled applications.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.

Benefits

• Base salary of $272,000–$302,000 per year, plus equity and performance-related bonuses for eligible employees.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts, dependent care accounts, and commuter benefits.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave.
• Paid time off, paid company holidays, office closures, and sick or safe time.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Daily office meals and eligible meal delivery credits.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional benefits may include charitable donation matching and wellness stipends.