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Director, Infrastructure Lease Accounting

Anthropic· Finance
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San Francisco, CA$230k - $300kfull-timePosted 6d ago

About the role

Lead technical accounting for Anthropic's most complex infrastructure and energy arrangements (data center leases, counterparty/JVE structures, and related embedded derivatives), ensuring accurate financial statement impact and auditor readiness.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the technical accounting subject matter expert for Anthropic's most complex infrastructure arrangements, leading classification, measurement, and subsequent accounting judgments
  • Apply ASC 842 to complex lease arrangements, including lease identification, modifications, reassessments, and embedded leases within compute, colocation, and data center contracts
  • Apply ASC 810 to counterparty and joint-venture structures, including variable interest entity (VIE) analysis for special purpose entities
  • Apply ASC 815 to energy and infrastructure arrangements, including consideration of embedded derivatives
  • Lead technical accounting analysis and memo preparation for new arrangements, ensuring positions are well-reasoned, supported, and auditor-ready
  • Partner with Real Estate, Legal, and Finance teams during contract negotiation and execution to ensure accounting implications are understood before commitments are made
  • Serve as a trusted finance partner to non-finance stakeholders — explaining the financial statement impact of their decisions in clear, simple terms they can act on
  • Serve as a key point of contact with external auditors on technical accounting matters within your portfolio
  • Mentor accounting professionals across the Infrastructure Accounting team on technical accounting matters
  • Drive process improvements and automation, including leveraging AI tooling, to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of technical accounting work

Qualifications

  • Have 12+ years of progressive experience in accounting, with meaningful time in a technical accounting role
  • Hold a Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA required
  • Possess strong technical accounting knowledge of ASC 842 (leases), ASC 810 (consolidation, including VIE analysis), and ASC 815 (derivatives and hedging), applied to real arrangements
  • Have a track record of authoring and defending technical accounting memos on complex, judgment-intensive arrangements
  • Demonstrate strong analytical abilities and comfort working with large, complex contracts and datasets
  • Have a track record of improving scalable technical accounting processes in fast-moving environments
  • Are adept at translating technical accounting concepts into financial implications for non-finance stakeholders
  • Communicate clearly and influence effectively across cross-functional partners — Real Estate, Legal, Finance, and Procurement
  • Have experience partnering with engineering, infrastructure, or operations teams to improve financial reporting and cost transparency

Skills

Required:ASC 842ASC 810 (VIE analysis)ASC 815 (derivatives and hedging)Technical memo drafting

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Optional equity donation matching
  • Generous vacation and parental leave
  • Flexible working hours
  • Office space for collaboration
Last updated Oct 21, 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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