Corporate Accounting

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 Anthropic is seeking an Accountant to join our Corporate Accounting team. You will be a hands-on member of the close: owning a defined set of accounts and entities from transaction through reconciliation, and making sure what lands in the financial statements is accurate, supported, and explainable. This is a role for someone who likes getting into the detail and also asks why the process works the way it does. You will work closely with partners across Finance, Procurement, Payroll, Legal, Tax, and Finance Systems, and you will help us build a close that scales with the company, with a lot of room to improve how the work gets done as we grow. Key responsibilities • Own month-end and quarter-end close activities for an assigned set of accounts and entities, including journal entries, accruals, account reconciliations, and supporting schedules, delivered on the close calendar • Prepare balance sheet reconciliations and flux analyses, investigate variances to root cause, and write clear explanations for reviewers and business partners • Maintain US GAAP supporting schedules and documentation for your areas of ownership, such as prepaids, fixed assets, accruals, and intercompany balances • Draft accounting memos and process documentation for routine and recurring transactions, and escalate non-routine items to Technical Accounting with a clear summary and a proposed treatment • Execute internal controls for your areas and prepare audit support, including schedules, evidence, and responses to auditor requests • Partner with business owners and finance colleagues to understand new transactions, resolve issues at the source, and reduce adjustments after close • Review work from contractors and team members, and give feedback that helps the team raise its quality bar • Identify and implement process improvements and automation, including using Claude and other AI tools, and check the output carefully before anyone relies on it • Support system and process changes in the accounting function, including testing, data validation, and documentation Minimum qualifications • Working knowledge of US GAAP, applied hands-on to the monthly close: journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, and financial statement support • Experience preparing account reconciliations and flux analyses in an ERP or general ledger system (for example, Workday, NetSuite, or equivalent) • Strong spreadsheet skills, including lookups, pivot tables, and reconciling large data sets in Excel or Google Sheets • Experience supporting external audits and operating internal controls • Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain accounting results to colleagues who are not accountants • Sound judgment on when to resolve an issue independently and when to escalate it • Attention to detail and a strong sense of ownership, with the ability to manage competing deadlines Preferred qualifications • 7+ years of progressive accounting experience, in public accounting, in industry, or a combination of both • CPA, ACA, ACCA, or CA qualification, or progress toward one • Experience in a fast-moving environment where processes were still being defined, with a track record of improving them • Familiarity with technical areas such as ASC 842, ASC 718, ASC 606, fixed assets, or multi-entity and intercompany accounting • Experience with close management or reconciliation tooling, or with SQL