The opportunity
Anthropic is seeking a Senior Manager, Infrastructure Asset Accounting to join our Infrastructure Accounting team. In this role, you will own the accounting for Anthropic's infrastructure assets across their full lifecycle — from chips, memory, and networking components moving…
What you'll do
Own end-to-end accounting for Anthropic's infrastructure assets through their: lifecycle — component cost accumulation, prepayments and deposits, construction-in-progress (CIP), transfer to fixed assets at deployment, and disposal
Build and maintain detailed transaction flows that map how assets and costs: move from purchase order through shipment, receipt, warehousing, integration, deployment, and in-service, and keep them current as sourcing models change
Evaluate the accounting implications of new and non-standard supplier and: procurement arrangements and document conclusions in clear technical memos.
Apply technical accounting expertise under ASC 360 (capitalization, useful: lives, impairment, disposals, and asset retirement obligations), together with cost accounting concepts such as bill-of-materials (BOM) cost accumulation, landed cost, and obsolescence and existence reserves
Partner with Supply Chain, Data Center Operations, Legal, and Finance during: contract negotiation and execution so that accounting implications are understood before commitments are made
Serve as a trusted finance partner to non-finance stakeholders: explaining the financial statement impact of their decisions in clear, simple terms they can act on
What they're looking for
- + years of progressive experience in accounting, with operational experience: at technology, hardware, manufacturing, or infrastructure-heavy companies
- Experience at hyperscalers, semiconductor companies, hardware OEMs / ODMs,: contract manufacturers, or data center operators, with exposure to complex BOM-based assemblies and infrastructure asset structures (including GPU clusters, networking equipment, and data center buildouts)
- Familiarity with adjacent guidance that often arises in supply chain: arrangements, such as ASC 330 (inventory), ASC 842 (embedded leases), and ASC 460 (guarantees)
- Experience with fixed asset subledger and component / inventory management: systems at scale (e.g., NetSuite, Oracle, SAP)
- SQL proficiency for querying and analyzing large infrastructure and accounting datasets
- Background in Big 4 accounting or advisory services combined with industry experience
- Experience with complex data center buildouts or hybrid cloud / on-premise environments
- Knowledge of AI/ML infrastructure and associated cost structures
