The opportunity
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…
What you'll do
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
What they're looking for
- 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
