Anthropic Manager, Compute Accounting at Anthropic responsible for day-to-day accounting of compute and cloud infrastructure spend. Ensures accurate financial reporting and builds scalable processes and controls in a high-growth environment.
Responsibilities
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.
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
Qualification
StrongSQL and BigQuery proficiencyExperience at cloud service providers
Required
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
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
