Senior Business Systems Analyst, Finance Systems (Assets & Lease Management)

Anthropic•San Francisco, WA

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic is seeking an experienced Senior Business Systems Analyst to join their Finance Systems team. This role will serve as the internal functional lead for Workday Business Assets and Lease Management, responsible for the design and configuration of systems and processes governing the full lifecycle of Anthropic's assets and leases. The position is critical for shaping the finance organization's operations as the company scales towards public company readiness. The role involves managing a rapidly growing asset base, ensuring accuracy in capitalization, depreciation, and lease accounting (ASC 842), and working at the intersection of finance domain expertise and technical implementation. The analyst will partner with implementation partners, engineering teams, and finance stakeholders to build a robust asset and lease management foundation within Workday.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in finance systems, ERP implementation, or business systems analysis roles.
At least 5 years of hands-on Workday Financials (experience including Business Assets), lease management, inventory or asset management software experience.
Deep expertise in Workday Business Assets configuration, including asset books, depreciation methods, capitalization thresholds, CIP tracking, mass asset transactions, transfers, and disposals.
Hands-on experience with lease accounting under ASC 842 in major lease management platforms (e.g., CoStar, FinQuery/LeaseQuery, Visual Lease).
Strong understanding of fixed asset accounting processes, including capitalization policies, useful life determination, impairment assessment, and asset level reconciliation to the general ledger, along with an understanding of SOX and compliance requirements.
Experience managing high-value technology infrastructure assets, such as data centers, compute hardware, networking equipment, and understanding the operational realities of tracking physical assets at scale.
Skilled at translating complex business requirements into technical solutions, bridging the gap between finance stakeholders and technical implementation teams.
Experience with full ERP implementation lifecycles, including requirements gathering, configuration, testing, data migration, cutover planning, and hypercare.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with ability to work effectively with finance leadership, accounting teams, and technical partners.
Comfortable working in fast-paced, high-growth environments with evolving requirements and tight timelines.
Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.

Nice To Haves

CPA certification, or a strong background in accounting or finance, with understanding of GAAP/IFRS reporting requirements, including IFRS 16 lease accounting.
Experience with lease portfolios from dedicated platforms (e.g., FinQuery/LeaseQuery, Visual Lease, CoStar).
Experience assessing embedded leases within cloud, hosting, and service contracts under ASC 842.
Experience with Workday FDM design, Prism Analytics, or Accounting Center for asset and lease journal automation.
Technical familiarity with Claude suite, SQL, Workday WQL/RaaS reporting, BigQuery, Workday Studio/Core Connector, Python.
Knowledge of SOX compliance requirements and internal controls for fixed asset and lease accounting cycles.
Familiarity with Workday Procurement and Supply Chain, including PO to asset flows and supplier invoice integration points.
Prior experience at high-growth technology companies scaling toward IPO readiness, ideally with significant capital expenditure programs.

Responsibilities

Serve as the internal functional lead for Workday Business Assets, owning configuration of asset books, asset classes, useful lives, depreciation profiles, capitalization rules, and CIP tracking; drive design decisions, validate configurations, and ensure business requirements are met.
Own end-to-end lease administration and lease accounting across Workday and dedicated lease management platforms for both real estate and infrastructure/compute leases — including lease classification, right of use assets and lease liabilities, amortization schedules, modifications and remeasurements, and ASC 842 disclosure reporting.
Partner with Compute, Data Infrastructure, Procurement, Accounting, and other key stakeholders to manage high-value technology infrastructure assets from procurement through capitalization, transfers, and retirement; design componentization, tagging, and tracking approaches for data center and compute hardware at scale, with asset records structured to meet international regulatory, statutory, and cross-border compliance requirements.
Support the broader Workday Financials platform as a secondary focus, ensuring FDM alignment (Worktags, account posting rules, dimensional hierarchies) for asset and lease transactions; partner with consultants on future phase / net new implementations impacting assets and leases.
Build and maintain asset rollforwards, depreciation forecasts, lease disclosure schedules, and reconciliations; support month-end and quarter-end close activities for fixed assets and leases, managing defects and data quality issues as they arise.
Collaborate with Integrations, Security, and Financials configuration teams to align master data, journals, controls, and performance service level agreements; partner with Real Estate & Workplace, Legal, FP&A, and Tax on the lease pipeline and capital planning.
Work closely with engineering teams and business stakeholders to drive ongoing expansion and adoption of the Workday platform (e.g., biannual releases), identifying opportunities for process improvement and automation across the asset and lease lifecycle.