Senior Manager, Corporate Accounting

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>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.</p></div><h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2> <p>We are looking for a Corporate Accountant to join Anthropic’s Corporate Accounting Operations team. Reporting to the Director of Accounting Operations, this person will lead a team of accountants while staying hands-on — reviewing and preparing close materials, setting technical standards, and owning their own portfolio of accounts through close.</p> <p>This is a build role. The successful candidate will write and own the policies and SOPs their team operates against, design the controls framework, and continuously improve the processes underneath it — including using Claude and other tools to automate work that doesn’t need to be manual. We are looking for someone who has built accounting infrastructure from scratch in high-growth environments and wants to do it again at one of the most important companies in the world.</p> <p>The role requires an active CPA licence and roughly 10 years of progressive accounting experience combining public company (audit or in-house) exposure with time in a high-growth or startup environment. A Big 4 audit foundation is a strong signal. The role carries direct reports and sits at the intersection of close operations, technical accounting, SOX, process automation, and cross-functional partnership.</p> <h2><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></h2> <h3><strong>Close Operations (~35%)</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Own a portfolio of accounts through month-end and quarter-end close — reconciliations, journal entries, and variance commentary</li> <li>Drive close acceleration by identifying bottlenecks and implementing process changes that reduce cycle time without sacrificing accuracy</li> <li>Ensure all close deliverables are consistently audit-ready with clear documentation of positions and supporting evidence</li> <li>Oversee SOX control preparation and execution across owned accounts; review control evidence and own timely remediation of gaps</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Technical Accounting & Policy (~20%)</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Write, own, and maintain technical accounting policies and SOPs across the domain — drafting, evolving, and operationalising them as the business changes</li> <li>Review technical accounting memos prepared by the team; ensure conclusions are well-supported and consistent with US GAAP</li> <li>Collaborate with Technical Accounting on new or evolving standards and translate guidance into executable procedures</li> <li>Own external audit responses within the domain; ensure timely delivery of supporting schedules and audit-ready workpapers</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Process Improvement & Automation (~20%)</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Identify repetitive, rules-based tasks and build scalable solutions — including leveraging Claude — to automate or replace them</li> <li>Document workflows and controls in a way that supports knowledge transfer, audit evidence, and system scalability</li> <li>Contribute to ERP and systems implementations, translating accounting requirements into clear specifications and test criteria</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Team Leadership & Review (~15%)</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Coach and develop a team of highly agile performers with timely, specific feedback that raises the technical and operational bar</li> <li>Hire and onboard accountants as the team grows; set clear expectations and build a culture of precision and continuous improvement</li> <li>Serve as the first escalation point for complex transactions and accounting judgments across the team’s workstreams</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Cross-Functional Partnership (~10%)</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Partner with Finance & Strategy, Tax, People Operations, Procurement, and Facilities to keep accounting aligned with business activity in real time</li> <li>Translate complex accounting positions into plain language for non-finance stakeholders</li> <li>Support new entity setup and geographic expansion by establishing accounting processes for new jurisdictions</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Minimum Qualifications</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Active CPA licence (required)</li> <li>Big 4 audit foundation — strong signal of technical depth and audit-readiness standards</li> <li>Has managed or meaningfully coached junior accountants; ready for direct reports</li> <li>Experience designing and operating controls in a SOX environment</li> <li>Hands-on ownership of close: reconciliations, JEs, variance analysis, period-end cut-off</li> <li>Depth across several of: ASC 842 leases, ASC 718 SBC, ASC 340-40 commissions, payroll, fixed assets / capitalisation, cash & investments, debt, intangibles, prepaids, accruals</li> <li>Player-coach: moves fluidly between reviewing team work and doing the work — equally comfortable in a recon spreadsheet and a review meeting</li> <li>Owns policies and SOPs end-to-end: writes them, maintains them, accountable for how the team applies them</li> <li>Thrives in…