# Head of Accounting Policy

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $300,000-$385,000 USD
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

Anthropic is growing quickly and needs a senior leader to own accounting policy and technical accounting. You will be the company's authority on accounting for complex transactions and build the technical accounting function to operate at public-company grade.

Key responsibilities:

- Establish and maintain US GAAP accounting policies across all significant areas

- Serve as lead technical advisor on novel and first-of-kind transactions

- Build and institutionalize a whitepaper and position-memo discipline

- Lead technical discussions with external auditors and SEC

- Prepare the company for public-company-grade external reporting

- Monitor and lead adoption of new FASB standards and SEC rules

- Partner with Legal, Tax, FP&A, and business and deal teams

- Advise on equity, financing, and capital-markets transactions

- Lead and develop a high-caliber technical accounting and accounting policy team

- Support reporting to company leadership and the Audit Committee

- Help design and strengthen controls over complex-area accounting

- Represent the company externally where useful

Minimum qualifications:

- Active CPA license

- Public accounting tenure at a top firm

- Deep US GAAP expertise and strong command of SEC reporting requirements

- Experience leading a technical accounting and/or accounting policy function at a high-growth technology company

- Demonstrated ability to research, conclude, and document positions on complex accounting issues

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred qualifications:

- 15+ years of combined experience across public accounting and industry

- Service at the US Securities and Exchange Commission

- FASB, EITF, or other standard-setting exposure

- Public speaking on technical accounting topics

- National office experience at a major firm

- Experience preparing a private company for public-company-grade reporting

## Skills

### Required
- US GAAP
- SEC reporting
- technical accounting
- accounting policy
- CPA license

### Nice to have
- FASB
- EITF
- standard-setting
- public speaking
- national office experience

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