Director, Technical Accounting – Investments

EngineersOfAI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic seeks a Director of Technical Accounting – Investments and M&A to own the accounting for strategic investments, partnerships, and capital transactions, reporting to the Senior Director. You will be a key technical resource on classification, consolidation, fair value, and financial statement impact across the portfolio.

In this builder role, you will stand up and sharpen the portfolio accounting process, controls, and valuation governance, partnering with Corporate Development, Legal,

Qualifications

• Significant Big 4 experience — ideally in a National Office, Transaction/Deal Advisory.
• Must possess strong understanding of US GAAP accounting for investments and M&A.

Responsibilities

• Execute technical accounting for strategic investments, JVs, partnership structures, and related financing/equity instruments from entry through exit.
• Partner with Corporate Development to review term sheets and deal documents before signing.
• Own entry accounting for new investments — ASC 321, 323, 810; VIE analysis and initial measurement memo.
• Lead quarterly portfolio reviews; account for follow-on investments, exits, and equity method changes.
• Oversee valuation specialists; review fair values, warrants, and Level 3 inputs.
• Prepare and review investment disclosures for quarterly and annual filings; present conclusions to leadership.

Skills

Big 4 experience

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

We are seeking a Director, Technical Accounting – Investments and M&A to join our Finance team at Anthropic. In this role, you will own the company's accounting for strategic investments, partnerships with investment components, and related capital transactions, and support mergers and acquisitions when deal volume requires. You will report to the Senior Director, Technical Accounting – M&A and Investments.

As Anthropic continues to scale rapidly and deploy capital into strategic investments, joint ventures, and novel commercial structures, including compute arrangements that carry warrants and other investment features, you will be a key technical resource on classification, consolidation outcomes, fair value, and financial statement impact across the portfolio. You will partner closely with Corporate Development, Legal, Tax, Treasury, FP&A, and leadership to ensure that investment economics are accurately reflected under US GAAP and that positions are defensible to external auditors, valuation specialists, and future regulators.

This is a builder role: you'll help stand up and continuously sharpen the portfolio accounting process, controls, and valuation governance expected of a world class finance organization, working alongside the Senior Director as the function takes shape. If you want to own a portfolio end to end — and still be in the room when deals are shaped — we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Execute technical accounting for strategic investments, joint ventures, partnership structures, and related financing/equity instruments from entry through exit
• Partner with and influence Corporate Development to steer investment structures toward preferred terms and outcomes, reviewing term sheets and deal documents before signing
• Own entry accounting for each new investment — classification under ASC 321, 323, or 810, VIE/primary-beneficiary analysis, basis differences, and the initial measurement memo
• Run the quarterly portfolio review — reconsideration events, impairment indicators, observable price changes, and equity method pick-ups — and account for follow-on investments, conversions, down rounds, and exits
• Own the investment rollforward, its reconciliation to the general ledger, and the portfolio reporting that supports close, FP&A, and leadership, including review of portfolio company financial statements
• Manage third-party valuation specialists; review fair values of investments, warrants, and derivative features, including Level 3 inputs and impairment analyses
• Assess warrants, equity rights, and other investment components embedded in partnerships and compute arrangements, partnering with Accounting Policy on how consideration is allocated
• Support M&A transactions alongside the M&A lead when deal volume requires — accounting due diligence, purchase accounting (consideration measurement, PPA review, opening balance sheet), and measurement-period adjustments
• Author and defend technical accounting policies & memoranda; partner closely with external auditors on investment, consolidation, and M&A matters
• Help build the investments operating model — intake form and approval gates, memo templates, quarterly checklists, and SOX-ready controls — designed to scale as the portfolio grows including utilizing Claude, ERP systems and third party applications (as applicable)
• Prepare and review investment and transaction disclosures for quarterly and annual filings, including fair value, equity method, and VIE disclosures
• Present investment accounting conclusions and financial statement impacts to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders in clear, decision-ready terms
• Monitor standard-setting and SEC developments affecting investments, consolidation, and business combinations; support adoption and cross-functional education

Minimum qualifications

• Bring significant Big 4 experience — ideally in a National Office, Transaction/Deal Advisory