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Salary: USD 190,000 - 230,000 / annual
Anthropic is seeking a Senior Analyst, Travel & Expense to lead the day-to-day financial controls, audit program, and executive reporting for the company's T&E function. This role is critical as T&E touches every employee, legal entity, and executive, and operates across Navan, Brex, and negotiated supplier agreements. With spend and transaction volume growing several-fold over the past six quarters, the controls need to scale to meet public-company standards.
You will report to the Head of Travel & Expense in Finance Operations and collaborate daily with Accounting, Tax, Payroll, Talent, Security, Legal, Finance Systems, and Administrative Business Partners.
Key responsibilities include:
**Controls & SOX Compliance:** Own day-to-day operation of key T&E controls including approvals, card issuance, spend limits, segregation of duties, and policy exceptions. Maintain T&E process narratives and risk/control matrices. Ensure correct GL coding and complete, accurate month-end reconciliations across Navan, Brex, and Workday. Act as the preparer for T&E controls and primary contact for internal and external auditors, gathering evidence, supporting walkthroughs, and tracking remediation.
**International Expansion Controls:** Set up and maintain entity-level coding and approval flows in Brex and Navan as new legal entities and countries launch. Document and operationalize country-specific rules for per diems, VAT reclaim, non-USD cards, receipt requirements, and local tax treatment. Partner with Tax, Payroll, and Global Mobility teams to ensure compliance and support accurate intercompany treatment of T&E costs.
**T&E Audit Program:** Help design, build, and run a risk-based audit program covering sampling, anomaly detection, misuse escalation, and remediation tracking. Define and monitor pre-spend rules, duplicate and split-transaction checks, and receipt/submission compliance. Build dashboards and reporting on policy compliance and control performance for Finance leadership. Partner with the Head of T&E to deploy Claude to review transactions, flag policy exceptions, and automate recurring reporting.
**Program Operations:** Own day-to-day T&E operations supporting growing travel and expense activity, platform configuration, and automation. Own transaction-level review and receipt follow-up. Partner with Benefits, Payroll, and Legal to ensure compliance with local and country requirements.
**Requirements:**
- 7+ years of experience in travel and expense, corporate accounting, internal audit, or finance operations, ideally at a high-growth technology company
- Hands-on SOX or internal-controls experience: writing process narratives, testing or operating key controls, and working with external auditors
- Strong accounting fundamentals including GL coding, account reconciliations, accruals, and month-end close support
- Deep platform expertise in Navan and/or comparable TMC platforms, plus Brex or equivalent expense management tools, and working knowledge of ERP integrations (Workday preferred)
- Strong analytical skills with comfort handling large transaction datasets, sampling methods, and anomaly detection
- Sound judgment and discretion with sensitive information; ability to work credibly with senior executives
- Clear written and verbal communication skills
- AI-curious, builder mindset with experience automating finance workflows or enthusiasm for doing so
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience in a field relevant to the role
- Preferred: CPA, CIA, or equivalent certification
- Preferred: Experience with multi-entity, multi-currency environments including per diem rules, VAT reclaim, and cross-border tax considerations
- Preferred: Pre-IPO or newly public company readiness experience
- Preferred: M&A integration experience
