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Salary: USD 190,000 - 230,000 / annual
Anthropic is seeking a Senior Manager of Compute Accounting to own the end-to-end accounting for compute and cloud infrastructure spend. This is a critical finance role at a rapidly scaling AI research company, responsible for ensuring accurate financial reporting and robust controls as Anthropic's compute footprint expands across multiple cloud service providers.
You will manage the complete lifecycle of compute cost accounting—from contract review and technical accounting assessment through accruals, prepaids, accounts payable reconciliation, expense classification, and commitment tracking. The role requires deep expertise in accounting for compute usage, strong technical accounting judgment, and the ability to build scalable processes and controls in a high-growth environment.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own complete accounting lifecycle for compute and cloud infrastructure expenses, ensuring accurate monthly close, reconciliations, accruals, prepaids, and journal entries
- Review and interpret cloud service provider and infrastructure contracts to ensure proper accounting treatment and compliance
- Apply technical accounting expertise to complex compute arrangements under ASC 842, including embedded-lease identification and lease vs. service classification
- Partner with Engineering, Legal, Procurement, and Finance teams during contract negotiation to ensure accounting implications are understood before commitments
- Formulate accounting policies governing compute cost recognition, classification, and amortization
- Design and implement accrual and prepayment processes for capacity reservations, savings plans, and committed-use discounts
- Track and reconcile commitment-based agreements and multi-year purchase obligations
- Lead accounts payable and vendor statement reconciliation with cloud service providers
- Build scalable processes, controls, and reporting systems to provide visibility into compute spending
- Serve as key point of contact with external auditors on compute accounting matters
- Mentor accounting professionals across the Compute Accounting team
- Lead process transformation and automation initiatives, including close workflow redesign and automated data pipelines
Anthropics's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The company is a quickly growing group of researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working on beneficial AI systems. The role offers the opportunity to establish financial controls and accounting policy at scale during a period of rapid growth.
Minimum qualifications:
- CPA (or equivalent) with deep understanding of GAAP and strong technical accounting skills
- Significant experience accounting for cloud service or compute infrastructure expenses, including contract review
- Working knowledge of ASC 842 as applied to compute, infrastructure, or data center arrangements (embedded leases, lease vs. service classification)
- Experience with cloud service provider cost structures and accounting for consumption-based services
- Ability to translate complex contractual terms into proper accounting treatment and communicate financial statement impact to non-finance stakeholders
- Proven experience building accounting processes, controls, and policy in high-growth environments
- Proficiency with modern ERP systems (NetSuite, Workday, Oracle, or similar)
Preferred qualifications:
- 10+ years of progressive accounting experience
- Experience mentoring and developing accounting professionals
- Track record of leading process transformation, automation, or finance systems projects
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to work with large datasets
- Comfort with cross-functional partnership in fast-paced environments
- SQL and BigQuery proficiency for direct data analysis
- Python skills for building automation and analytical tools
- Experience at cloud service providers, data center operators, or technology companies with consumption-based business models
- Background combining Big 4 accounting or advisory experience with technology company roles
- Exposure to infrastructure lease or asset structures (colocation, GPU clusters, networking equipment, data centers)
- 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 financial analysis and close automation
- Experience supporting rapid growth and scaling initiatives
