Senior Manager, Corporate Accounting Operations

About the role

We are looking for a Corporate Accountant to join Anthropic's Corporate Accounting Operations team. Reporting to the Director of Accounting Operations, you will lead a team of accountants while staying hands-on - reviewing and preparing close materials, setting technical standards, and owning your own portfolio of accounts through close. This is a build role. You will write and own the policies and SOPs your team operates against, design the controls framework, and continuously improve the processes underneath it - including using Claude and other tools to automate work that doesn't need to be manual. We are looking for someone who has done this before: built accounting infrastructure from scratch in high-growth environments and wants to do it again at one of the most important companies in the world.

Responsibilities

• Close Operations
• Own a portfolio of accounts through month-end and quarter-end close - including reconciliations, journal entries, and variance commentary
• Drive close acceleration by identifying bottlenecks and implementing process changes that reduce cycle time without sacrificing accuracy
• Ensure all close deliverables are consistently audit-ready, with clear documentation of positions and supporting evidence
• Oversee SOX control preparation and execution across your accounts; review control evidence and own timely remediation of any gaps
• Technical Accounting & Policy
• Write, own, and maintain technical accounting policies and SOPs across your domain - drafting, evolving, and operationalising them as the business changes
• Review technical accounting memos prepared by your team; ensure conclusions are well-supported and consistent with US GAAP
• Collaborate with Technical Accounting on new or evolving standards and translate guidance into procedures the team can execute
• Own external audit responses within your domain; ensure timely delivery of supporting schedules and audit-ready workpapers
• Process Improvement & Automation
• Identify repetitive, rules-based tasks across the team's workflows and build scalable solutions - including leveraging Claude - to automate or replace them
• Document workflows and controls in a way that supports knowledge transfer, audit evidence, and system scalability
• Contribute to ERP and systems implementations, translating accounting requirements into clear specifications and test criteria
• Cross-Functional Partnership
• Partner with Finance & Strategy, Tax, People Operations, Procurement, and Facilities to keep accounting aligned with business activity in real time
• Translate complex accounting positions into plain language for non-finance stakeholders
• Support new entity setup and geographic expansion by establishing accounting processes for new jurisdictions as Anthropic grows
• Team Leadership & Review
• Coach and develop a team of highly agile performers - providing timely, specific feedback that raises the technical and operational bar over time
• Hire and onboard accountants as the team grows; set clear expectations and build a culture of precision and continuous improvement
• Serve as the first escalation point for complex transactions and accounting judgments across your team's workstreams
• Areas of experience include:
• Close management and acceleration; process improvement; SOX control design and operation
• Real estate and lease accounting (ASC 842); fixed assets, capitalisation policy, and depreciation
• Payroll accounting; stock-based compensation (ASC 718); commissions (ASC 340-40); contingent worker accounting
• Cash and investments; debt accounting; IDSE, Intangibles, prepaids, accruals, and period-end cut-off controls
• You May Be a Good Fit If You
• Hold an active CPA licence
• Have around 10 years of progressive accounting experience, combining public company experience (in audit or in-house) with time at a high-growth or startup environment
• Have a Big 4 audit background - a strong signal of technical depth and audit-readiness standards
• Have managed or meaningfully coached more junior accountants and are ready for a role with direct reports
• Are comfortable owning accounting policies and SOPs end-to-end: writing them, maintaining them, and being accountable for how the team applies them
• Can move fluidly between reviewing your team's work and doing the work yourself - equally comfortable in a reconciliation spreadsheet and a review meeting
• Have experience designing and operating controls in a SOX environment
• Thrive in ambiguity and can structure work, reach defensible conclusions, and document them clearly even when the answer is not obvious
• Are energised by building from scratch rather than maint

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About Anthropic Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

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