Director, Financial Reporting - Special Projects San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA

Anthropic Limited; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Equity donation matching (optional)

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Lovely office space

Job summary

Anthropic Limited is seeking a senior Financial Reporting professional to own the consolidated cash flows, lead SEC reporting, and advance AI-driven reporting workflows. This hands-on IC role collaborates with Technical Accounting, Controllership, Tax, Legal, FP&A, and external auditors to improve speed, accuracy, and scalability of financial disclosures.

Ideal candidates have 12+ years in financial reporting, strong US GAAP expertise, and experience with peer benchmarking and AI-enabled

Qualifications

• 12+ years of financial reporting, SEC reporting, or public accounting experience.
• CPA or equivalent certification preferred.
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP and SEC reporting requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own the consolidated statement of cash flows end to end, including preparation and disclosures.
• Lead subsidiary and other compliance-related reporting and regulatory filings.
• Drive adoption of new accounting standards and related data/system changes.

Skills

Financial reporting

SEC reporting

US GAAP

Cross-functional collaboration

Internal controls

Education

CPA or equivalent certification

Tools

Claude

EDGAR full-text search

XBRL data

Job description

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 a Financial Reporting to join our Financial Reporting team within Accounting. In this role, you will own some of the most important pieces of our external reporting: the consolidated statement of cash flows, subsidiary and other compliance‑related reporting, and the peer benchmarking that keeps our disclosures clear and comparable.

This is a hands‑on individual contributor role for someone who wants to shape how a financial reporting function works, not just run it. Our team builds with Claude every day, and you will help design the workflows and automation that make our reporting faster, more accurate, and more scalable. You will partner closely with Technical Accounting, Controllership, Tax, Legal, FP&A, Corporate Development, and our external auditors.

If you enjoy owning complex reporting end to end, have strong judgment on disclosure, and are excited to reinvent how financial reporting gets done with AI, we would love to hear from you.

Key responsibilities

• Own the consolidated statement of cash flows end to end, including preparation, supporting schedules, classification analysis, non‑cash disclosures, and review with our external auditors
• Lead subsidiary and other compliance‑related reporting, such as entity‑level and special‑purpose financial statements, lender and covenant reporting, and other regulatory or contractual reporting requirements
• Lead the adoption of new accounting standards: impact assessment, data and system changes, disclosure drafting, controls, and review with our external auditors
• Lead stock‑based compensation reporting, including the expense and award‒activity roll‒forwards
• Contribute to the preparation and review of periodic SEC filings (Forms 10-Q and 10-K) and related disclosures
• Contribute to peer disclosure benchmarking, including frequent and proactive review of peer disclosures and assessment of Anthropic’s disclosures in comparison to peers
• Partner with valuation specialists, Technical Accounting, Tax, and Corporate Development on purchase accounting and post‒close reporting for acquired entities
• Identify opportunities to leverage Claude and automation tools to improve reporting processes, with a hands‑on willingness to test and adopt new technologies as they emerge
• Build and maintain Claude‑powered reporting workflows (e.g., roll‒forwards, tie‒outs, disclosure drafting, benchmarking) and document them so the broader team can use and extend them
• Design and maintain the process documentation and controls that support your areas, and serve as a primary point of contact for auditors on them
• Hands‑on ownership of a statement of cash flows, including preparation, classification under ASC 230, and support for audit review
• Experience with subsidiary, statutory, or other compliance‑related reporting (e.g., entity‑level financial statements, lender or covenant reporting, regulatory filings)
• Experience using Claude or similar AI tools to build new financial reporting workflows or automation
• Strong working knowledge of US GAAP and SEC reporting requirements, including Regulation S‑X and S‑K
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain complex accounting topics to non‑accounting partners
• Sound judgment and comfort owning ambiguous work, setting priorities, and meeting filing deadlines with minimal oversight
• Passion for Anthropic’s mission to build safe, transformative AI systems

Preferred qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in financial reporting, SEC reporting, or public accounting, including time at a public company or one preparing to go public
• Have built or run a peer disclosure benchmarking program, including use of EDGAR full‑text search or XBRL data
• Have built reusable Claude or similar AI skills, agents, or processes
• Experience with international statutory reporting or consolidation of special‑purpose entities
• CPA or equivalent certification

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.

$230,000 - $300,000 USD

Logistics

Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience

Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience

Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

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.

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