# Finance & Strategy, Datacenter FP&A

**Company**: Anthropic
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $240,000-$325,000 USD
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116758847

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## Description

We are seeking a Strategic Finance Lead to own the operating P&L for Anthropic's datacenter infrastructure partnerships. This role will be the finance owner for every site covering lease, power and operations.

In this role, you will be a key partner to our infrastructure teams, providing financial expertise and guidance to keep our sites on budget, drive operating costs down, and de-risk our largest infrastructure exposures. You will own the near-term forecast for datacenter spend, run budget-vs-actual on projects, and serve as the primary finance counterpart to our datacenter operating partners.

## Key Responsibilities:

### Datacenter Financial Planning & Analysis

- Own FP&A for all live-site datacenter operating costs including lease/rent, power, hardware ops, facility/DC ops, physical security, warehousing, and operator fees

- Build and maintain per-site cost forecasts; refresh on a cadence that supports monthly reviews and board reporting

- Run budget-vs-actual on datacenter developer spend and site build budgets, tracking expected eventual spend against approved commitments

- Own the in-year power cost model across pass-through and direct costs

- Reconcile operating partner invoices to forecast and lead the finance operating cadence with datacenter partners

- Partner with Accounting on contract operationalization, lease accounting, and close

### Strategic Projects

- Lead financial analysis for site-level optimization initiatives and operating model decisions

- Handle operational finance asks tied to datacenter partners and live sites

- Partner with the Datacenter Expansion lead on deal-to-operations handoffs, ensuring budgets set at signing are operationalized at commissioning

## Minimum Qualifications

- Experience in strategic finance, infrastructure investment, FP&A, private equity, consulting, or investment banking, preferably with datacenter, energy, real estate, telco, or managed-services infrastructure experience

- Owned an infrastructure operating P&L and driven cost-out programs against it

- Exceptional analytical skills with an ability to synthesize data into compelling insights and develop complex financial operating models

- Comfort being the finance person in the partner/vendor room and partnering with technical operating teams

- Bias towards action, strong work ethic, and experience driving operational outcomes under tight timelines

- Strong relationship building, business judgment, process management, and communication skills

- Passion for Anthropic's mission to build safe, transformative AI systems

## Preferred Qualifications

- 7+ years of experience in strategic finance, infrastructure investment, FP&A, private equity, consulting, or investment banking

- Direct experience with datacenter, colocation, or power (PPA / energy procurement) economics and contract structures

- Experience managing finance cadence with a third-party operator or managed-services provider

- Background in AI, ML, or high-performance, large-scale computing infrastructure

- Proficiency with financial modeling tools and languages (SQL, Python, Excel)

- MBA or other advanced degree in finance, economics, or business

The annual compensation range for this role is $240,000-$325,000 USD.

## Skills

### Required
- strategic finance
- infrastructure investment
- FP&A
- financial modeling
- data analysis
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- datacenter
- colocation
- power economics
- contract structures
- SQL
- Python
- Excel
- MBA

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