The opportunity
Anthropic is seeking a Senior Manager, Infrastructure Lease Accounting to join our Infrastructure Accounting team. In this role, you will execute day-to-day accounting for Anthropic's infrastructure lease portfolio — the leased assets underpinning our recently announced $50bn…
What you'll do
Lead end-to-end accounting for one of Anthropic's AI infrastructure lease: portfolio, including monthly close, reconciliations, roll-forwards, and flux analysis
Apply technical accounting expertise to complex infrastructure arrangements: under ASC 842 (lease classification, measurement, modifications, embedded leases, and reassessments)
Partner with Real Estate, Legal, and Finance teams during contract: negotiation and execution to ensure 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
Collaborate cross-functionally to improve the quality of upstream data: pipelines from operational and contract systems
Design and scale systems, processes, and controls to support a rapidly growing lease portfolio
What they're looking for
- Have 10+ years of progressive experience in accounting, with operational: experience at technology or infrastructure-heavy companies
- Experience at hyperscalers, large compute consumers, or data center operators: with exposure to infrastructure lease structures (including colocation, dark fiber IRUs, and compute / equipment leases)
- Experience with lease accounting software at scale
- 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
- Experience applying AI tooling (including Claude) to accounting processes, memo drafting, or close automation
