# Corporate Accountant, Accounting Operations

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $160,000-$190,000 USD
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5130251008
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## Description

We are seeking a Corporate Accountant to join our team at Anthropic. As a key preparer across the monthly and quarterly close cycle, you will work cross-functionally across the organisation to solve complex problems on a regular basis. This is an opportunity for someone who thrives in ambiguity, moves quickly without sacrificing accuracy, and genuinely enjoys building better processes.

Responsibilities:

- Serve as a primary preparer across month-end and quarter-end close activities spanning various corporate accounting areas

- Prepare and own balance sheet reconciliations, journal entries, and flux analysis commentary across your portfolio of accounts

- Prepare and maintain technical accounting memos, documenting conclusions in accordance with US GAAP and ensuring audit-ready support

- Support and operate within the company's internal controls framework, with a focus on SOX compliance and control documentation

- Identify repetitive, rules-based accounting tasks and build scalable workflows, including leveraging Claude and other tools, to reduce manual effort and increase accuracy

- Collaborate with Technical Accounting on complex transactions, policy development, and application of new or evolving accounting standards

- Support external audit requests and ensure timely delivery of audit-ready schedules and supporting documentation

- Contribute to system implementations and process improvement initiatives as the team and company continue to scale

Requirements:

- Hold an active CPA license

- Have 7+ years of accounting experience, preferably in startup or high-growth environments with 2+ years of experience in a public company

- Big 4 Audit background

- Have experience operating across multiple accounting functions, including corporate close, lease accounting, and payroll accounting

- Can move between preparer-level execution and technical accounting analysis

- Have experience working in or building out SOX-compliant control environments

- Are a self-starter who identifies what needs to be done and does it without waiting to be asked

- Communicate clearly and directly with non-accounting partners

- Are comfortable with ambiguity and can make good decisions with incomplete information

Strong candidates may also have experience working in a fast-paced startup environment, Workday financials experience or ERP implementation, and the ability to meet deadlines without sacrificing the quality of their work product.

## Skills

### Required
- CPA license
- accounting experience
- Big 4 Audit background
- SOX compliance
- Claude

### Nice to have
- Workday financials experience
- ERP implementation