Corporate Finance & Strategy, Public Benefit

Anthropic•San Francisco, CA

4d•$240,000 - $325,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic is seeking a Finance & Strategy partner focused on Public Benefit and Public Policy. This role will serve as the finance lead for how Anthropic plans, funds, and reports its giving and policy work, which includes grants, philanthropy, direct programs, and policy engagement globally. The position is a "build role" where the individual will shape budgets, funding structures, and reporting processes in collaboration with leaders from Global Affairs, Public Benefit, Legal, Tax, Corp Development, and Accounting. The ideal candidate will possess strong corporate FP&A skills combined with an understanding of philanthropic and policy finance, including foundations, grantmaking, and funding vehicles. The role requires a proactive approach, the ability to use data to support recommendations, and comfort with making tradeoffs in areas where impact is harder to measure than revenue.

Requirements

Experience in FP&A or strategic finance, ideally at a high-growth company or foundation, with meaningful time supporting philanthropy, social impact, or policy work.
Experience in grants, philanthropy, or impact-investing finance.
Advanced financial modeling skills in spreadsheets, with experience building budgets, forecasts, and multi-year plans where few exist yet.
Clear written and verbal communication, including explaining complex financial concepts to program leaders, policy staff, external partners, and executives.
Ability to push back constructively with data and clear reasoning.
Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward action, including building processes while the work is still being defined.
A commitment to Anthropic's mission to build safe, beneficial AI systems.

Nice To Haves

10+ years of experience in FP&A or strategic finance.
Experience building stage-gated or milestone-based funding frameworks.
Fluency in ERP, procurement, or finance systems.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary finance partner to Public Benefit and Global Affairs leaders, working with program teams and partner functions on every financial aspect of their work.
Lead annual planning, in-year forecasting, and multi-year planning across the giving and policy portfolio, translating strategy into clear priorities, tradeoffs, and resource-allocation decisions.
Design and run stage-gated funding: tranche releases, graduation criteria, and tracking against them.
Lead the financial planning of large or strategic commitments, such as grants, loans, foundation funding, and in-kind contributions, with Legal, Tax, Corp Development and Accounting, including how each structure is accounted for and put into practice.
Bring funding recommendations and tradeoffs to executive leadership.
Work with program leaders to define how outcomes are measured where revenue is not the yardstick.
Set up spend categorization and reporting, including project codes, workflows, and external reporting, and build the processes and tools so reporting scales with the program.