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Senior Manager, Infrastructure Asset Accounting

Anthropic· Finance
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA and Seattle, WA)$190k - $230kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Role owning accounting for Anthropic's infrastructure assets across their full lifecycle, ensuring financial accuracy and scalable controls for a rapidly growing fixed asset base related to data centers, components, and related infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end accounting for infrastructure assets through lifecycle (component cost accumulation, prepayments and deposits, construction-in-progress, transfer to fixed assets at deployment, disposal)
  • Build and maintain transaction flows mapping assets and costs from purchase to deployment and in-service, updating as sourcing models change
  • Evaluate accounting implications of new/non-standard supplier arrangements and document conclusions in memos
  • Apply ASC 360 expertise (capitalization, useful lives, impairment, disposals, asset retirement obligations) plus BOM cost, landed cost, obsolescence, and existence reserves
  • Partner with Supply Chain, Data Center Operations, Legal, and Finance during contract negotiation to understand accounting implications before commitments
  • Serve as trusted finance partner to non-finance stakeholders, explaining financial statement impact clearly
  • Collaborate to improve upstream data pipelines and component tracking (serial-number-level, existence controls, accurate dates)
  • Help design and scale systems, processes, and controls for growing component and fixed asset portfolio
  • Collaborate with and mentor accounting professionals across Infrastructure Accounting
  • Serve as key contact with external auditors on supply chain, capex, fixed asset accounting matters
  • Drive process improvements and automation, including leveraging AI tooling, to enhance efficiency and accuracy of financial reporting

Qualifications

  • Hold a Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA or equivalent preferred
  • Strong technical accounting knowledge of ASC 360 applied to infrastructure/data center/compute assets
  • Experience with cost accounting in a supply chain context (BOM-based costing, landed cost, standard vs actual, obsolescence/NRV)
  • Experience building or maintaining end-to-end transaction flows, process maps, or subledger designs tracing assets/costs across systems
  • Experience evaluating accounting for non-standard supplier/procurement arrangements with documented conclusions
  • Hands-on experience managing a significant fixed asset or component portfolio in a high-growth environment
  • Strong analytical abilities and comfort with large, complex datasets
  • Track record of improving scalable financial processes in fast-moving environments
  • Experience mentoring accounting professionals
  • Ability to translate technical accounting concepts into financial implications for non-finance stakeholders
  • Clear communication and influence across cross-functional partners
  • Experience partnering with supply chain, engineering, infrastructure, or operations teams to improve financial reporting and cost transparency

Skills

Required:ASC 360 knowledgeCost accounting (BOM, landed cost)Subledger and process mappingData analysisCross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Office space for collaboration
  • Visa sponsorship support where possible
Last updated Sep 16, 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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