Finance & Strategy, Machines (FP&A)

Anthropic•San Francisco, CA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

About the role We are seeking a Machines FP&A lead to own financial planning for the chips and accelerators that run our models. You will own the hardware forecast and budget, keep leadership's view of machine spend current, and be the single finance point of contact for machines into Accounting and consolidated FP&A. In this role, you will be a key partner to our capacity planning and hardware teams, and work day to day with the Compute deal team, Accounting, and the consolidated FP&A team.

Requirements

Owned a forecast or budget end to end at a hardware, semiconductor, hyperscaler, or infrastructure-heavy business
Strong driver-based modeling skills and budget-vs-actual / variance discipline
Comfort partnering closely with engineering and commercial teams under deal-timeline pressure
Passion for Anthropic's mission to build safe, transformative AI systems

Nice To Haves

7+ years in FP&A, strategic finance, or capacity/infrastructure finance
Capacity planning or infrastructure FP&A experience at a hyperscaler or major chip maker
Experience building forecast infrastructure for a new or fast-changing spend area
Lease and long-term-agreement accounting fluency
MBA, CFA, or equivalent

Responsibilities

Own the hardware forecast: delivery volumes, lease and financing expense, and cash flows
Run budget vs. actuals for machine spend: one view of what the fleet costs and why it moved
Serve as the single point of contact for machines in forecast and close cycles with Accounting and consolidated FP&A
Coordinate forecast inputs with Capacity Planning and the Compute deal team
Track spend and cash-flow phasing against multi-year hardware commitments and prepayments
Partner with Accounting on the treatment of leases, prepayments, and related agreements
Support chip and accelerator economics analyses) led by the Machines finance team
Build the reporting that keeps leadership's machine spend picture current