Compute Accounting Manager

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

As a Compute Accounting Manager at Anthropic, you will own the end-to-end accounting for our compute expenses, ensuring accurate financial reporting and robust controls as we scale. You'll be responsible for the complete lifecycle of compute accounting—from contract review and compliance through accruals, prepaids, accounts payable reconciliation, expense classification, and commitment tracking. This role requires deep expertise in accounting for compute usage, strong data and analytical capabilities, and the ability to build scalable processes in a high-growth environment. You'll partner directly with the relevant Engineering, Legal, and Procurement teams to ensure our CSP contracts are properly reflected in our financial records and that we're capturing costs accurately and in compliance with our agreements. As Anthropic continues to grow rapidly, you'll play a critical role in establishing the financial controls and processes that enable us to manage significant compute spend with precision and confidence.

Responsibilities:

• • Own the complete accounting lifecycle for compute expenses, ensuring accurate and timely recording of all costs
  • Review and interpret CSP contracts to ensure proper accounting treatment and compliance with contractual terms
  • Design and implement accrual and prepayment processes that accurately reflect the timing and nature of our compute costs
  • Track and reconcile commitment-based agreements, ensuring proper recognition and disclosure of our obligations
  • Lead accounts payable reconciliation efforts, working with vendors to resolve discrepancies and ensure statement accuracy
  • Partner with Procurement and Legal teams on contract reviews, providing accounting perspective on financial terms and implications
  • Build scalable processes and controls that can grow with the organization while maintaining accuracy and efficiency
  • Develop automated reporting and monitoring systems to provide visibility into CSP spending patterns and trends
  • Collaborate with FP&A to support forecasting and budgeting efforts related to compute costs
  • Serve as the subject matter expert on CSP accounting matters, providing guidance to cross-functional teams

You may be a good fit if you:

• • Have 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, with significant exposure to accounting for compute and review of associated contracts
  • Are a CPA (or equivalent) with a deep understanding of GAAP and strong technical accounting skills
  • Have experience working with compute cost structures and understand the unique challenges of accounting for consumption-based services
  • Possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to dive deep into data to identify issues and opportunities
  • Have proven experience building accounting processes and controls in high-growth environments
  • Are proficient with modern ERP systems (NetSuite, Workday, Oracle, or similar)
  • Can translate complex contractual terms into proper accounting treatment
  • Excel at cross-functional partnership and can effectively communicate accounting concepts to non-finance stakeholders
  • Thrive in fast-paced environments where priorities can shift quickly
  • Have a bias toward automation and process improvement

Strong candidates may also:

• • SQL and BigQuery proficiency, enabling direct data analysis and validation
  • Python skills for building automation and analytical tools
  • Experience in consumption-based or usage-based business models
  • Background combining Big 4 accounting experience with industry roles at technology companies
  • Track record of implementing automated reconciliation and reporting solutions
  • Experience supporting rapid growth and scaling initiatives
  • Familiarity with commitment-based purchasing agreements and their accounting implications

Deadline to apply: None. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Logistics

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

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

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How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.