# Senior Manager, Corporate Accounting

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA
**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

We are looking for a Senior Manager, Corporate Accounting to join our Corporate Accounting Operations team. This person will lead a team of accountants while staying hands-on, reviewing and preparing close materials, setting technical standards, and owning their own portfolio of accounts through close.

This is a build role. The successful candidate will write and own the policies and SOPs their 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.

The role requires an active CPA licence and roughly 10 years of progressive accounting experience combining public company (audit or in-house) exposure with time in a high-growth or startup environment. A Big 4 audit foundation is a strong signal.

Key responsibilities include:

- Close Operations (~35%): Own a portfolio of accounts through month-end and quarter-end close , reconciliations, journal entries, and variance commentary

- Technical Accounting & Policy (~20%): Write, own, and maintain technical accounting policies and SOPs across the domain , drafting, evolving, and operationalising them as the business changes

- Process Improvement & Automation (~20%): Identify repetitive, rules-based tasks and build scalable solutions , including leveraging Claude , to automate or replace them

- Team Leadership & Review (~15%): Coach and develop a team of highly agile performers with timely, specific feedback that raises the technical and operational bar

- Cross-Functional Partnership (~10%): Partner with Finance & Strategy, Tax, People Operations, Procurement, and Facilities to keep accounting aligned with business activity in real time

Minimum qualifications include an active CPA licence, Big 4 audit foundation, and roughly 10 years of progressive accounting experience.

Preferred qualifications include ~10 years progressive accounting experience combining public company (audit or in-house) with high-growth / startup, public company accounting experience including exposure to financial reporting cycles, and deep expertise in two or more of: ASC 842, ASC 718, commissions, payroll, or fixed asset accounting.

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

## Skills

### Required
- CPA
- Big 4 audit foundation
- progressive accounting experience
- public company accounting experience
- financial reporting cycles
- ASC 842
- ASC 718
- commissions
- payroll
- fixed asset accounting

### Nice to have
- Claude
- AI tools
- process automation
- team leadership
- cross-functional partnership

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