3P Revenue Accounting & Reporting

Anthropic•Seattle, WA

23d•$190,000 - $230,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic is hiring a Senior Manager, 3P Revenue Accounting & Reporting to own revenue recognition, month-end close, and reporting for Claude sold through cloud service provider channels, including AWS Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Azure Marketplace. The role works with consumption-based, partner-reported data and serves as the accounting point of contact for finance and partner teams at AWS, Google, and Microsoft. Internally, it partners with Finance, FAB, Engineering, and business teams to convert partner billing data into accurate, auditable revenue and to automate a currently manual close process. The role leads revenue accounting and reporting, applies ASC 606 to third-party arrangements, maintains reserves and SOX controls, supports audits, and develops reporting and close automation. It also partners with FP&A, Treasury, AR, Engineering, Technical Accounting, and business teams on forecasts, cash, disputes, new products, billing changes, and accounting judgments. Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. The company describes its mission as creating reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial. It offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and office space for collaboration. Staff are currently expected to work in an office at least 25% of the time, though some roles may require more.

Requirements

Strong ASC 606 knowledge, especially principal-versus-agent, variable consideration, consideration payable to a customer, and consumption-based revenue.
Experience owning a month-end close with tight deadlines and reviewing journal entries, reconciliations, and flux analysis.
Experience building revenue reporting from large, imperfect third-party data sets and reconciling it to the general ledger.
Experience managing external partner relationships that depend on partner-provided data and driving data fixes.
Strong SQL skills, such as BigQuery or similar, and experience automating close workbooks or reconciliations.
Experience designing or operating SOX controls and supporting external audits.
Clear communication with accounting, finance, business, and engineering teams.
Ability to thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments where processes are still being built.
Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
Required field of study: a field relevant to the role, demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
Minimum years of experience will correlate with internal job-level requirements.

Nice To Haves

10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 3+ years managing revenue accounting or close teams.
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA or equivalent (ACA, ACCA).
Big 4 audit experience combined with industry experience at a high-growth tech or SaaS company.
Experience with cloud marketplace, reseller, or channel revenue, such as AWS Marketplace, Google Cloud Marketplace, or Azure Marketplace.
Experience with usage-based and subscription revenue models.
Hands-on experience with Workday Financials, NetSuite, Numeric, Hex, or similar close and reporting tools.
Experience with IPO readiness.
Experience using AI tools to automate accounting and reporting work.

Responsibilities

Lead the cloud service provider Marketplace revenue close within a listed-company timeline.
Prepare and review revenue, revenue-share, reserve, accrual, and true-up journal entries, including memos documenting accounting assessments and judgments.
Own balance sheet reconciliations, reserves, and the usage-to-invoice-to-cash bridge.
Perform monthly and quarterly flux analysis and prepare leadership flux decks.
Own quarter-end deliverables, including footnote disclosures, flux commentary, and presentations to leadership and Corporate Accounting.
Serve as the primary contact for external auditors.
Review accountants’ and contractors’ work, set the close calendar, and ensure close packages are complete and audit-ready.
Own monthly and quarterly third-party revenue reporting for leadership and FP&A, broken down by partner, model, product, region, and customer.
Review partner usage, invoice, disbursement, and fraud reports each month and resolve data issues before close.
Serve as the accounting point of contact for finance, engineering, and product teams, and drive reporting improvements that support an on-time close.
Apply ASC 606 to third-party arrangements, including principal-versus-agent, variable consideration, and reseller arrangements.
Estimate and document reserves, including credit loss under ASC 326.
Assess accounting for new third-party products, programs, and billing changes, partnering with Technical Accounting on complex judgments.
Partner with Engineering to automate manual close processes, including SQL-driven workbooks, automated reconciliations, and system-generated journal entries.
Own third-party SOX controls, including design, documentation, gap remediation, and audit evidence.
Partner with FP&A, Treasury, AR, and business teams on forecasts, cash, and partner disputes.