Manager, Compute Accounting

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

As a Manager, Compute Accounting at Anthropic, you will execute day-to-day accounting for our compute and cloud infrastructure spend, ensuring accurate financial reporting and robust controls as we scale. You'll be responsible for preparing compute cost accounting, including accruals, prepaids, accounts payable reconciliation, expense classification, and commitment tracking. This role requires hands-on month-end close experience, strong organizational skills, and the ability to build scalable processes and controls in a high-growth environment, with a strong appetite for process improvement and automation.

You'll work directly with Engineering, Procurement, and Finance & Strategy to resolve issues and ensure that costs are captured accurately and in compliance with our agreements. As Anthropic's compute footprint expands rapidly across multiple cloud service providers, you'll help operate the financial controls and processes that enable us to manage compute spend measured in the tens of billions of dollars with precision and confidence. You'll also support internal and external audit requests.

Key responsibilities

Own the accounting lifecycle for compute and cloud infrastructure expenses, ensuring accurate and timely recording of all costs through monthly close, reconciliations, accruals, prepaids, journal entries, and flux analysis

Review and interpret cloud service provider and infrastructure contracts to ensure proper accounting treatment, commitment tracking, and compliance with contractual terms

Track and reconcile commitment-based agreements, ensuring proper recognition and disclosure of multi-year purchase obligations

Perform accounts payable and vendor statement reconciliations, working with cloud service providers to resolve discrepancies and ensure billing accuracy

Build scalable processes and controls that can grow with the organization, and develop reporting and monitoring systems to provide visibility into compute spending patterns and trends

Support internal and external audit requests on compute cost accounting and commitment disclosure matters

Work with Engineering and cloud service providers to investigate issues and see them through to resolution

Build monthly and quarterly financial reporting packages for leadership reviews

Drive process improvement and automation initiatives—redesigning close workflows, building automated data pipelines and reporting, and leveraging AI tooling—and contribute to cross-functional projects from scoping through delivery

Minimum qualifications

7+ years of progressive operational accounting experience

CPA (or equivalent) with a strong understanding of GAAP

Strong, hands-on month-end close experience, with a proven ability to prepare accruals, reconciliations, and journal entries accurately and on time

Significant experience accounting for cloud service or compute infrastructure expenses, including review of associated contracts

Experience with cloud service provider cost structures and the unique challenges of accounting for consumption-based services

Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain issues to vendors, engineers, and other non-finance stakeholders in clear, simple terms

Strong analytical abilities and comfort working with a high volume of transactions

Proven experience building accounting processes, controls, and policy in high-growth environments

Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with a track record of seeing issues through to resolution

Proficiency with modern ERP systems (Workday preferred)

Preferred qualifications

Have experience mentoring junior accounting professionals

A track record of leading process transformation, automation, or finance systems projects from scoping through delivery

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to dive deep into large datasets to identify issues and opportunities

Comfort with cross-functional partnership in fast-paced environments where priorities can shift quickly

SQL and BigQuery proficiency, enabling direct data analysis and validation against source systems

Python skills for building automation and analytical tools

Experience at cloud service providers, data center operators, or technology companies with consumption-based or usage-based business models

Background combining Big 4 accounting experience with industry roles at technology companies

Exposure to infrastructure lease or asset structures, including colocation, GPU clusters, networking equipment, or data center buildouts

Track record of implementing automated reconciliation and reporting solutions

Familiarity with commitment-based purchasing agreements and their accounting implications

Proficiency with AI-assisted tools (including Claude) for enhancing financial analysis, memo drafting, and close automation

Experience supporting rapid growth and scaling initiatives

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

$160,000 — $190,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

For roles performing work in California: We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records or criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

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