# Senior Manager, Corporate Accounting Operations

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $190,000-$230,000 USD
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Manager, Corporate Accounting Operations to join our team. As a key member of our finance organization, you will lead a team of accountants while staying hands-on, reviewing and preparing close materials, setting technical standards, and owning your own portfolio of accounts through close.

This is a build role. You will write and own the policies and SOPs your 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.

Responsibilities:

- Close Operations:

- Own a portfolio of accounts through month-end and quarter-end close , including reconciliations, journal entries, and variance commentary

- Drive close acceleration by identifying bottlenecks and implementing process changes that reduce cycle time without sacrificing accuracy

- Ensure all close deliverables are consistently audit-ready, with clear documentation of positions and supporting evidence

- Oversee SOX control preparation and execution across your accounts; review control evidence and own timely remediation of any gaps

- Technical Accounting & Policy:

- Write, own, and maintain technical accounting policies and SOPs across your domain , drafting, evolving, and operationalising them as the business changes

- Review technical accounting memos prepared by your team; ensure conclusions are well-supported and consistent with US GAAP

- Collaborate with Technical Accounting on new or evolving standards and translate guidance into procedures the team can execute

- Own external audit responses within your domain; ensure timely delivery of supporting schedules and audit-ready workpapers

- Process Improvement & Automation:

- Identify repetitive, rules-based tasks across the team's workflows and build scalable solutions , including leveraging Claude , to automate or replace them

- Document workflows and controls in a way that supports knowledge transfer, audit evidence, and system scalability

- Contribute to ERP and systems implementations, translating accounting requirements into clear specifications and test criteria

- Cross-Functional Partnership:

- Partner with Finance & Strategy, Tax, People Operations, Procurement, and Facilities to keep accounting aligned with business activity in real time

- Translate complex accounting positions into plain language for non-finance stakeholders

- Support new entity setup and geographic expansion by establishing accounting processes for new jurisdictions as Anthropic grows

- Team Leadership & Review:

- Coach and develop a team of highly agile performers - providing timely, specific feedback that raises the technical and operational bar over time

- Hire and onboard accountants as the team grows; set clear expectations and build a culture of precision and continuous improvement

- Serve as the first escalation point for complex transactions and accounting judgments across your team's workstreams

Areas of experience include:

- Close management and acceleration; process improvement; SOX control design and operation

- Real estate and lease accounting (ASC 842); fixed assets, capitalisation policy, and depreciation

- Payroll accounting; stock-based compensation (ASC 718); commissions (ASC 340-40); contingent worker accounting

- Cash and investments; debt accounting; IDSE, Intangibles, prepaids, accruals, and period-end cut-off controls

You May Be a Good Fit If You:

- Hold an active CPA licence

- Have around 10 years of progressive accounting experience, combining public company experience (in audit or in-house) with time at a high-growth or startup environment

- Have a Big 4 audit background , a strong signal of technical depth and audit-readiness standards

- Have managed or meaningfully coached more junior accountants and are ready for a role with direct reports

- Are comfortable owning accounting policies and SOPs end-to-end: writing them, maintaining them, and being accountable for how the team applies them

- Can move fluidly between reviewing your team's work and doing the work yourself , equally comfortable in a reconciliation spreadsheet and a review meeting

- Have experience designing and operating controls in a SOX environment

- Thrive in ambiguity and can structure work, reach defensible conclusions, and document them clearly even when the answer is not obvious

- Are energised by building from scratch rather than maintaining what already exists

- Have a clear point of view on how AI tools can eliminate low-value accounting work , and want to put that into practice

- Communicate clearly with non-accounting partners and can explain a complex position in plain language

Strong Candidates May Also:

- Have public company accounting experience, including exposure to financial reporting cycles

- Bring deep expertise in two or more specialty areas: ASC 842 lease accounting, ASC 718 stock-based compensation, commissions accounting, payroll accounting, or fixed asset accounting

- Have led or played a significant role in an ERP implementation , particularly in a high-growth environment where accounting requirements were evolving mid-project

- Have experience building accounting infrastructure from the ground up: chart of accounts design, allocation methodology, or close cadence structure

- Bring familiarity with AI or infrastructure-heavy business models where cost attribution and capitalisation decisions are complex

- Have managed accounting through significant organisational change , new entity setup, geographic expansion, or business model evolution

The annual compensation range for this role is $190,000-$230,000 USD.

## Skills

### Required
- Accounting
- Financial Management
- Leadership
- Communication
- Problem-Solving
- Analytical Skills
- Technical Accounting
- SOX Compliance
- ERP Implementation
- Process Improvement
- Automation
- Cloud Computing
- Data Analysis
- Financial Reporting
- Budgeting
- Forecasting

### Nice to have
- AI Tools
- Machine Learning
- Data Science
- Cloud Security
- Cybersecurity
- Compliance
- Risk Management
- Audit
- Financial Planning
- Strategic Planning