Equity Accounting and Reporting

Anthropic • San Francisco, CA

3d • Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic is seeking an experienced accountant to own equity accounting and reporting across US GAAP, IFRS, and local GAAP in jurisdictions where employees hold equity. Based in San Francisco, this hands-on role owns equity accounting data from Shareworks through to the ledgers, including entity-level expense, intercompany recharges, current and deferred tax, and equity footnotes and local statutory disclosures. The role prepares and reviews close materials, owns accounts, and serves as the first escalation point for accounting judgments in this area.

This is a build role focused on taking manual equity-accounting workstreams to automation and creating a scalable, efficient, compliant close. The role works with Finance Systems and Shareworks to develop reporting, finalizes policies and recharge agreements, and coordinates requirements across Equity Administration, Equity Reporting, Accounting, Treasury, Tax, Transfer Pricing, and Global Payroll. Responsibilities span share-based compensation from award-level records through expense, tax, payroll, disclosures, and related cross-jurisdictional processes.

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society. The company is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco.

Requirements

• CPA or equivalent professional accounting qualification.
• Deep, hands-on experience with stock-based compensation under ASC 718, IFRS 2, and local GAAP, including equity rollforwards and reconciliation to an equity administration platform.
• Experience with tax accounting for equity, including current and deferred tax by entity, mobility apportionment, and windfalls and shortfalls through the provision.
• Experience owning a portfolio of accounts through close in a public-company or pre-IPO environment, including designing and operating SOX controls.
• Experience writing and maintaining accounting policies and SOPs and accountability for their application.
• Ability to structure ambiguous problems, reach defensible conclusions, and document them clearly.
• Clear written and verbal communication with non-accounting partners.
• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
• Relevant field of study demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Nice To Haves

• Progressive accounting experience combining Big 4 audit with time at a high-growth or startup company.
• A clear point of view on how AI tools can eliminate low-value accounting work, with a track record of putting that into practice.
• A project management qualification or experience running cross-functional workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Own the equity portfolio through month-end and quarter-end close across US GAAP, IFRS, and local GAAP, including entity-level equity expense, reconciliations, journal entries, and variance commentary.
• Own intercompany recharge booking, including invoicing, settlement, Treasury communication, and associated foreign exchange.
• Own current and deferred tax on equity by entity and in local currency, including IFRS deferred-tax marks to share price and windfalls or shortfalls through the tax provision.
• Ensure close deliverables are audit-ready and include clear documentation of accounting positions and supporting evidence.
• Write, own, and maintain equity accounting policies and standard operating procedures across US GAAP, IFRS, and local GAAP, including grant-date fair value and expense schedules, recharge basis, mobility apportionment, and treatment of cancellations, modifications, and one-off events.
• Partner with Tax to resolve open policy positions and execute the recharge agreements that depend on them.
• Research tax and accounting rules for new jurisdictions and categorize each jurisdiction under the company framework before the first grant is issued there.
• Own equity footnotes and local statutory disclosures for all entities, including period award rollforwards with internal transfers and external audit responses.
• Design and operate SOX controls for equity expense, recharges, and deferred tax; review control evidence and remediate gaps on time.
• Establish completeness and cut-off controls to ensure consistent award, entity, event-date, and FX-rate data flows from Shareworks to ledgers, reports, and returns.
• Work with Finance Systems and Shareworks to build reporting for IFRS expense and deferred tax in local currency at Workday rates, mobility snapshots, corporate tax apportionment, and exercise and disclosure reports with mobility detail.
• Automate monthly pushdown and recharge postings and reconciliation of deferred tax to expense reports, replacing manual processes.
• Document workflows and controls to support knowledge transfer, audit evidence, and scale.
• Partner with Equity Administration, Equity Reporting, Accounting, Treasury, Tax, Transfer Pricing, and Global Payroll to address statutory and reporting requirements across award stages and provide stakeholders with needed data.
• Record local SBC expense and recharges in secondary ledgers to support transfer-pricing cost bases.
• Explain complex equity accounting topics in plain language to non-finance stakeholders.
• Lead cross-functional, cross-jurisdictional reviews of one-off equity events such as tender offers and share repurchases, covering accounting, deductions, payroll withholding, Treasury, and disclosures.
• Coordinate with Tax and advisers on open conclusions, including corporation-tax versus payroll-tax apportionment logic, so reporting configurations are accurate before they are built.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Optional equity donation matching.
• Generous vacation and parental leave.
• Flexible working hours.
• Office space for collaboration.
• Visa sponsorship, with reasonable efforts to secure a visa for candidates receiving an offer.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior