Description
We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Systems Analyst to join our Finance Systems team at Anthropic. Building on our recent go live on Workday Financials, you will serve as the internal functional lead for Workday Business Assets and Lease Management, owning the design and configuration of the systems and processes that govern the full lifecycle of Anthropic's assets and leases , from our rapidly scaling compute and data center infrastructure to our global real estate portfolio.
This is a critical role that will directly shape how Anthropic's finance organization operates as we scale toward public company readiness. Anthropic's asset base is growing at an extraordinary pace, and the accuracy of our capitalization, depreciation, and lease accounting (ASC 842) directly impacts our financial statements. You will work at the intersection of finance domain expertise and technical implementation, partnering with implementation partners, engineering teams, and finance stakeholders to build a world class asset and lease management foundation within Workday.
In this role, you will:
- Serve as the internal functional lead for Workday Business Assets, owning configuration of asset books, asset classes, useful lives, depreciation profiles, capitalization rules, and CIP (construction in progress) tracking
- Own end to end lease administration and lease accounting across Workday and dedicated lease management platforms for both real estate and infrastructure/compute leases
- Partner with Compute, Data Infrastructure, Procurement, Accounting, and other key stakeholders to manage high value technology infrastructure assets from procurement through capitalization, transfers, and retirement
- Support the broader Workday Financials platform as a secondary focus, ensuring FDM alignment (Worktags, account posting rules, dimensional hierarchies) for asset and lease transactions
- Build and maintain asset rollforwards, depreciation forecasts, lease disclosure schedules, and reconciliations
- Collaborate with Integrations, Security, and Financials configuration teams to align master data, journals, controls, and performance service level agreements
- Work closely with engineering teams and business stakeholders to drive ongoing expansion and adoption of the Workday platform
You may be a good fit if you:
- Have 8+ years of experience in finance systems, ERP implementation, or business systems analysis roles, with at least 5 years of hands-on Workday Financials (experience including Business Assets), lease management, inventory or asset management software experience
- Possess deep expertise in Workday Business Assets configuration, including asset books, depreciation methods, capitalization thresholds, CIP tracking, mass asset transactions, transfers, and disposals
- Have hands-on experience with lease accounting under ASC 842 in major lease management platforms
- Possess a strong understanding of fixed asset accounting processes, including capitalization policies, useful life determination, impairment assessment, and asset level reconciliation to the general ledger
- Have experience managing high value technology infrastructure assets, such as data centers, compute hardware, networking equipment
- Are skilled at translating complex business requirements into technical solutions, bridging the gap between finance stakeholders and technical implementation teams
- Have experience with full ERP implementation lifecycles, including requirements gathering, configuration, testing, data migration, cutover planning, and hypercare
- Have excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with ability to work effectively with finance leadership, accounting teams, and technical partners
The annual compensation range for this role is $205,000-$270,000 USD.