The opportunity
We are seeking a Strategic Finance Lead to provide finance leadership for our accelerator investments. In this role, you will be a key partner to our compute teams, providing financial expertise and guidance to optimize our compute investments and drive strategic decision-making.
What you'll do
Finance lead for cloud accelerator compute spend, including budgeting,: monthly forecasting, variance analysis, and financial plan maintenance
Build and maintain detailed bottoms-up data-driven financial models for: accelerator infrastructure, including long-range forecasts, cost driver analyses, and investment scenario modeling
Develop deep expertise in compute contracts, pricing structures, and cost: drivers, and surface optimization opportunities across our infrastructure
Serve as subject matter expert for Anthropic’s overall compute capacity plan,: owning source of truth and plan of record
Support the implementation and management of financial planning tools (e.g.,: Pigment), ensuring our models and processes scale with the organization
Analyze the economics of model training and research compute, including ROI: across different dimensions like training run sizes, chip types, data, etc, and distill into actionable framework for capacity planning and deployment
What they're looking for
- + years of experience in strategic finance, infrastructure investment,: private equity, growth equity, consulting, or investment banking, preferably with infrastructure, datacenter, or technology infrastructure experience
- + years of experience specifically in cloud infrastructure financial management
- Experience working directly with major cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- MBA or other advanced degree in finance, economics, or business
- Deep expertise in cloud service provider economics, contract structures, and pricing models
- Experience with chip architecture economics and optimization strategies
- Proficiency with financial modeling tools and languages (SQL, Python, Excel)
