Finance & Strategy, Datacenter Finance

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Anthropic · San Francisco, CA

$235K–$310K/yrFull-timeOn-site1mo ago30+ days old, may be filled

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About the role

We are seeking a Strategic Finance Lead to own the operating P&L for Anthropic's datacenter infrastructure partnerships. This role will be the finance owner for every site covering lease, power and operations. In this role, you will be a key partner to our infrastructure teams, providing financial expertise and guidance to keep our sites on budget, drive operating costs down, and de-risk our largest infrastructure exposures. You will own the near-term forecast for datacenter spend, run budget-vs-actual on projects, and serve as the primary finance counterpart to our datacenter operating partners.

Responsibilities

Datacenter Financial Planning & Analysis

Own FP&A for all live-site datacenter operating costs including lease/rent, power, hardware ops, facility/DC ops, physical security, warehousing, and operator fees

Build and maintain per-site cost forecasts; refresh on a cadence that supports monthly reviews and board reporting

Run budget-vs-actual on datacenter developer spend and site build budgets, tracking expected eventual spend against approved commitments

Own the in-year power cost model across pass-through and direct costs

Reconcile operating partner invoices to forecast and lead the finance operating cadence with datacenter partners

Partner with Accounting on contract operationalization, lease accounting, and close

Strategic Projects

Lead financial analysis for site-level optimization initiatives and operating model decisions

Handle operational finance asks tied to datacenter partners and live sites

Partner with the Datacenter Expansion lead on deal-to-operations handoffs, ensuring budgets set at signing are operationalized at commissioning

You may be a good fit if you have:

7+ years of experience in strategic finance, infrastructure investment, FP&A, private equity, consulting, or investment banking, preferably with datacenter, energy, real estate, telco, or managed-services infrastructure experience

Owned an infrastructure operating P&L and driven cost-out programs against it

Exceptional analytical skills with an ability to synthesize data into compelling insights and develop complex financial operating models

Comfort being the finance person in the partner/vendor room and partnering with technical operating teams

A bias towards action, strong work ethic, and experience driving operational outcomes under tight timelines

Strong relationship building, business judgment, process management, and communication skills

Passion for Anthropic's mission to build safe, transformative AI systems

Strong candidates may also have:

Direct experience with datacenter, colocation, or power (PPA / energy procurement) economics and contract structures

Experience managing finance cadence with a third-party operator or managed-services provider

Background in AI, ML, or high-performance, large-scale computing infrastructure

Proficiency with financial modeling tools and languages (SQL, Python, Excel)

MBA or other advanced degree in finance, economics, or business

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role's On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

$235,000 - $310,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single quali

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