Financial Reporting Accountant

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Financial Reporting accountant to join our Finance team at Anthropic. In this role, you will be responsible for executing key aspects of our financial reporting processes, ensuring compliance with US GAAP, and supporting the implementation and optimization of our reporting systems. Reporting to the Financial Reporting Lead, you will play an important role in maintaining robust reporting frameworks that support our growth while upholding the highest standards of accuracy and transparency. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to prepare timely and accurate financial statements, support external audit processes, and drive continuous improvement in our reporting capabilities.

This role offers the opportunity to contribute to the financial reporting infrastructure of a leading AI company while working at the forefront of transformative technology.

Responsibilities:

• Prepare and review external financial reporting deliverables, including quarterly and annual financial statements, ensuring full compliance with US GAAP and applicable reporting standards

• Execute month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes, coordinating with accounting teams to ensure timely and accurate completion

• Conduct technical accounting research and prepare documentation for complex transactions, including stock-based compensation (ASC 718), derivatives (ASC 815), lease accounting (ASC 842), as well as supporting implementing new accounting standards

• Support the implementation and day-to-day operation of Workiva for financial reporting, controls documentation and compliance

• Serve as a key point of contact with external auditors, coordinating audit requests, preparing supporting documentation, and ensuring efficient completion of audit procedures

• Support the design and implementation of internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR) 

• Partner with the Finance Systems team to ensure seamless integration between ERP systems and reporting platforms

• Develop and maintain accounting policies and procedures documentation

• Collaborate with Legal, Investor Relations, Tax, Equity Accounting and Finance & Strategy teams to ensure alignment between management and external reporting

• Contribute to special projects as needed, including system implementations, process improvements, and reporting automation initiatives

You may be a good fit if you:

• Bachelor's degree in accounting

• Hold a CPA license (or equivalent) or are actively pursuing CPA (or equivalent) certification

• 7+ years of accounting experience, including experience in public accounting

• Possess expertise in US GAAP and SEC reporting experience is a plus

• Hands-on experience using Workiva or similar financial reporting platforms and are comfortable optimizing workflows within these tools

• Proficient with ERP systems; Workday Financials is a plus

• Experience supporting SOX compliance programs and working with external auditors

• Demonstrate exceptional attention to detail while maintaining the ability to see the big picture

• Effectively communicate complex accounting concepts to non-finance stakeholders

• Thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments and can adapt quickly to changing priorities

• Passionate about building scalable processes and systems supporting organizational grow

• Care about the societal impacts of your work and are excited about Anthropic's mission to build safe, beneficial AI

• Strong Excel and data manipulation skills; experience with Python or SQL for reporting automation is a plus

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below. 

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

Annual Salary:

$190,000—$230,000 USD

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.**

Location-based hybrid policy:** Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed.  Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.

How we're different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues. Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process