# Director, Infrastructure Lease Accounting

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $230,000-$300,000 USD
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

Anthropic is seeking a Director, Infrastructure Lease Accounting to lead technical accounting for complex infrastructure and energy arrangements. You will ensure financial statement accuracy for the most technically complex contracts entered into.

As the technical accounting subject matter expert, you will serve as a trusted finance partner to non-finance stakeholders, explaining the financial statement impact of their decisions. You will work closely with Real Estate, Legal, Finance, and external auditors to ensure accounting implications are understood before commitments are made.

Responsibilities:

- Serve as the technical accounting subject matter expert for Anthropic's most complex infrastructure arrangements

- Apply ASC 842 to complex lease arrangements

- Apply ASC 810 to counterparty and joint-venture structures

- Apply ASC 815 to energy and infrastructure arrangements

- Lead technical accounting analysis and memo preparation for new arrangements

- Partner with Real Estate, Legal, and Finance teams during contract negotiation and execution

- Serve as a trusted finance partner to non-finance stakeholders

- Serve as a key point of contact with external auditors on technical accounting matters

- Mentor accounting professionals across the Infrastructure Accounting team on technical accounting matters

- Drive process improvements and automation

Minimum qualifications:

- 12+ years of progressive experience in accounting

- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA required

- Strong technical accounting knowledge of ASC 842, ASC 810, and ASC 815

- Track record of authoring and defending technical accounting memos

- Demonstrate strong analytical abilities and comfort working with large, complex contracts and datasets

Preferred qualifications:

- Background in a Big 4 technical accounting practice

- Experience at hyperscalers, utilities, or energy companies

- Experience with renewable energy contracts, carbon markets, or related clean-energy accounting frameworks

- Exposure to data center and compute-related infrastructure arrangements

- Experience with lease accounting software and derivative / hedge accounting systems at scale

The annual compensation range for this role is $230,000-$300,000 USD.

## Skills

### Required
- ASC 842
- ASC 810
- ASC 815
- technical accounting
- financial analysis
- communication

### Nice to have
- Big 4 technical accounting practice
- hyperscalers
- utilities
- energy companies
- renewable energy contracts
- carbon markets
- lease accounting software
- derivative / hedge accounting systems

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