Finance & Strategy, Compute - Central Compute

Anthropic•San Francisco, CA

7h•Hybrid

About The Position

Anthropic is seeking a Strategic Finance Lead to manage the consolidated financial view across its compute infrastructure organization, which includes accelerators, cloud spend, direct infrastructure, datacenters, and data partnerships. This central role involves owning consolidation, operating cadence, cost allocation methodology, and the executive-facing narrative. The lead will partner with Corporate FP&A, Accounting, and Finance Systems to ensure compute financials are integrated into the company plan, models reconcile across pillars, and leadership and board materials reflect a single, defensible source of truth.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, finance operations, consulting, or investment banking, preferably in a multi-business-unit or infrastructure-heavy environment
Built or run a consolidation, allocation, or planning process across multiple finance owners
Exceptional analytical skills and the ability to reconcile complex models into a single defensible view
Strong process design and operating-cadence instincts
Excellent written communication; comfortable producing board- and executive-level materials
Comfort working cross-functionally and communicating complex financial information to non-finance audiences
A bias towards action, strong work ethic, and experience driving outcomes under tight timelines
Passion for Anthropic's mission to build safe, transformative AI systems
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 as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Nice To Haves

Experience with cost allocation / chargeback methodologies in a cloud or infrastructure context
Background in AI, ML, cloud service provider economics, or large-scale computing infrastructure
Proficiency with SQL, Python, and Excel
Prior chief-of-staff, BizOps, or finance-systems experience in a high-growth environment

Responsibilities

Own consolidation and workback of the financial review cadences across all compute finance pillars into a single narrative for finance and compute leadership
Manage the compute finance contribution to board materials and executive reviews
Own and maintain team dashboards, recurring content, and reporting infrastructure - keeping them live, accurate, and reconciled
Drive integration of financial models across the compute finance team into a coherent, full three-statement view
Own the calendar and cadence between Compute Finance and Corporate FP&A - close, forecast, budget, and long-range plan handoffs
Run team operating rhythm: meeting agendas, sprint cadence, recurring deliverable tracking, and cross-pillar coordination
Own compute finance's planning-system footprint - datasets, sources of truth, and pipeline into corporate systems
Drive model hygiene, version control, and central organization of team financial models