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Tax Director, Provision & Compliance

Anthropic· Finance
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (New York City, NY), Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$230k - $300kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Directly own Anthropic's global income tax provision and US income tax compliance function, overseeing ASC 740 close, co-sourced compliance, and building scalable processes, controls, and team growth. Brings hands-on experience with complex M&A and infrastructure transactions, leading tax purchase price allocations and crafting technical memos for auditors and leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Own the quarterly and annual worldwide income tax provision: current and deferred computations, effective tax rate reconciliation, deferred tax inventory and valuation allowance assessments, stock-based compensation, uncertain tax positions, and return-to-provision true-ups
  • Own the tax journal entries, account reconciliations, income tax footnote and disclosures, and the supporting workpapers and SOX controls; manage the financial statement audit relationship with our Big 4 auditors
  • Coordinate the international components of the provision with the team and outside advisors, and drive continuous improvement in close speed and quality
  • Manage the US federal and state income tax compliance program, working with our co-sourced Big 4 providers: returns, estimated payments and extensions, elections and disclosures, and the compliance calendar
  • Own cash tax forecasting and support tax authority notices, examinations, and audit defense
  • Drive automation and tax technology adoption across the provision and compliance processes, including AI tooling
  • Own tax purchase price allocation workpapers for acquisitions: taxable vs. nontaxable characterization, ASC 805 opening balance sheet deferred taxes, goodwill component analysis, and reconciliation to the tax basis balance sheet — plus tax diligence, structuring, and integration
  • Analyze data center and compute infrastructure arrangements — lease classification, sale-leasebacks, Section 467 rent schedules, build-out cost recovery — and the financing structures around them: debt vs. equity characterization, prepayments, vendor financing, warrants and equity instruments in commercial agreements, and joint venture formations and buyouts
  • Prepare and review technical memos documenting positions for auditors and leadership, and model the cash tax and effective tax rate consequences of proposed structures for Corp Dev, Finance, and Legal while deals are being negotiated
  • Mentor and develop tax team members and help build the function as the company grows
  • Manage outside advisors on opinions, studies, and valuations, and own those budgets and relationships

Qualifications

  • Have substantial experience managing a corporate tax function in the multinational software and technology industry, including hands-on experience running the income tax provision and compliance processes, with a combination of Big 4 public accounting and in-house tax department experience
  • Have owned the full ASC 740 provision cycle at a multinational company — not just reviewed pieces of it — including deferred taxes, valuation allowance judgments, uncertain tax positions, footnote and disclosures, SOX controls, and auditor management
  • Have managed a US federal and state income tax compliance program at scale, including co-sourced arrangements with Big 4 providers
  • Bring familiarity and hands-on experience with complex M&A transactions — tax purchase price allocations, ASC 805 opening balance sheet accounting, diligence and structuring — and ideally experience with infrastructure leases, build-outs, and the financing arrangements behind them
  • Write clear, well-organized technical memos that hold up with Big 4 auditors, and can explain the same issue in plain terms to non-tax partners
  • Hold a CPA; a Master's in Taxation or LLM is a plus
  • Thrive on novel fact patterns and ambiguity, and default to building the workpaper and writing the position down rather than waiting for a template

Skills

Required:Income tax provision (ASC 740)US federal & state income tax complianceM&A tax diligence and structuringTechnical memos for auditors

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Office space for collaboration
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Anthropic

building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

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