Infrastructure Lease Accounting Lead — Scale & Impact

Anthropic Limited; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and benefits

Equity donation matching (optional)

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office in San Francisco

Job summary

Anthropic Limited in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Manager, Infrastructure Lease Accounting to own end‑to‑end accounting for the infrastructure lease portfolio, including monthly close, reconciliations, and flux analysis, with a focus on ASC 842 compliance.

You will partner with Real Estate, Legal, Finance, and Data Center Operations to shape controls, scalable processes, and audit readiness while mentoring the team and collaborating with external auditors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA or equivalent preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience in technology or infrastructure-heavy environments.
• Experience with ASC 842 in infrastructure, data center, or compute-related arrangements.
• Experience managing a sizable lease portfolio in a high-growth setting.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end accounting for one of Anthropic's AI infrastructure lease portfolios, including monthly close, reconciliations, roll-forwards, and flux analysis.
• Apply technical accounting expertise to complex infrastructure arrangements under ASC 842 (lease classification, measurement, modifications, embedded leases, and reassessments).
• Partner with Real Estate, Legal, and Finance during contract negotiations to ensure accounting implications are understood before commitments.
• Serve as a trusted finance partner to non-finance stakeholders, explaining financial statement impacts clearly.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to improve upstream data pipelines from operational and contract systems.
• Design and scale systems, processes, and controls to support a rapidly growing lease portfolio.
• Collaborate with and mentor accounting professionals across the Infrastructure Accounting team.
• Serve as a key point of contact with external auditors on lease accounting matters.
• Drive process improvements and automation, including leveraging AI tooling, to enhance financial reporting.
• Hold a Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA or equivalent preferred.

Skills

ASC 842

Financial analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance

Tools

Lease accounting software

SQL

AI tooling

Job description

Anthropic Limited in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Manager, Infrastructure Lease Accounting to own end‑to‑end accounting for the infrastructure lease portfolio, including monthly close, reconciliations, and flux analysis, with a focus on ASC 842 compliance.

You will partner with Real Estate, Legal, Finance, and Data Center Operations to shape controls, scalable processes, and audit readiness while mentoring the team and collaborating with external auditors.