Senior Analyst, Travel & Expense

EngineersOfAI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Senior Analyst, Travel & Expense, to manage daily financial controls, audits, and executive reporting for the T&E function. You will ensure accurate GL coding and month-end reconciliations across Navan, Brex, and Workday, while coordinating with Tax, Payroll, and Global Mobility to maintain compliance.

You will design, implement, and monitor a risk-based T&E audit program, develop dashboards, and partner with the Head of T&E to automate recurring reporting.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in travel and expense, corporate accounting, internal audit, or finance operations at a high-growth tech company
• Hands-on SOX or internal-controls experience: writing process narratives, testing or operating key controls, and working with external auditors
• Strong accounting fundamentals: GL coding, reconciliations, accruals, month-end close support
• Deep platform expertise in Navan and/or TMC platforms, plus Brex or expense tools, with ERP integrations (Workday preferred)
• Strong analytical skills; comfortable with large transaction data sets

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day operation of key T&E controls: approvals, card issuance, spend limits, and policy exceptions within the control framework
• Maintain T&E process narratives and risk/control matrices; update as systems/policies change
• Ensure accurate GL coding and month-end reconciliations across Navan, Brex, and Workday
• Prepare T&E controls for internal/external audits; gather evidence and track remediation
• Set up entity-level coding and approval flows in Brex/Navan as new entities come online
• Document country-specific rules for per diems, VAT reclaim, non-USD cards, and receipt requirements
• Partner with Tax, Payroll, Global Mobility to ensure compliance
• Support intercompany T&E cost allocations across entities
• Help design and run a risk-based T&E audit program; monitor pre-spend rules and 30-day receipts
• Build dashboards reporting policy compliance and control performance

Skills

SOX experience

Accounting fundamentals

Analytical skills

Travel & Expense

Finance operations

T&E controls

Tools

Navan

Brex

Workday

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

As a Senior Analyst, Travel & Expense, you will run the day-to-day financial controls, audit program, and executive reporting behind Anthropic's T&E function. T&E touches every employee, every legal entity, and every executive, and it runs on Navan, Brex, and negotiated supplier agreements. Spend and transaction volume have grown several-fold in the past six quarters, and the controls need to scale to meet a public-company standard.

You will report to the Head of Travel & Expense in Finance Operations and work daily with Accounting, Tax, Payroll, Talent, Security, Legal, Finance Systems and Administrative Business Partners.

Responsibilities

Controls & SOX Compliance

• Own the day-to-day operation of key T&E controls, including approvals, card issuance and spend limits, segregation of duties, and policy exceptions, within the control framework set by the Head of T&E, who owns the overall T&E process
• Maintain the T&E process narratives and risk and control matrix, and keep them current as systems and policies change
• Ensure correct GL coding and complete, accurate month-end reconciliations across Navan, Brex, and Workday, and support close, flux analysis, and accruals
• Act as the preparer for T&E controls and the day-to-day contact for internal and external auditors: gather and retain evidence, support walkthroughs and sample requests, and track remediation, escalating significant issues to the Head of T&E

International Expansion Controls

• Set up and maintain entity-level coding and approval flows in Brex and Navan as new legal entities and countries come online
• Document and operationalize country-specific rules for per diems, VAT reclaim, non-USD cards, receipt requirements, and local tax treatment
• Partner with Tax, Payroll, and Global Mobility to ensure compliance
• Support accurate intercompany treatment of T&E costs across entities

T&E Audit Program

• Help design, build, and run a risk-based audit program covering sampling, anomaly detection, misuse escalation, and remediation tracking
• Define and monitor pre-spend rules, duplicate and split-transaction checks, and receipt and 30-day submission compliance
• Build dashboards and reporting on policy compliance, exceptions, and control performance for Finance leadership
• Partner with the Head of T&E to deploy Claude to review transactions, flag policy exceptions, and automate recurring reporting

Program Operations

• Own day-to-day T&E operations, supporting the growing volume of travel and expense activity and platform configuration and automation, so operations keep running without pulling focus from controls
• Own transaction-level review and receipt follow-up, and help shape what should be automated rather than staffed
• Partner with Benefits, Payroll and Legal to ensure the T&E program is compliant with relevant local and country requirements

Preferred qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in travel and expense, corporate accounting, internal audit, or finance operations, ideally at a high-growth technology company
• Hands-on SOX or internal-controls experience: writing process narratives, testing or operating key controls, and working with external auditors
• Strong accounting fundamentals, including GL coding, account reconciliations, accruals, and month-end close support
• Deep platform expertise in Navan and/or comparable TMC platforms, plus Brex or equivalent expense management tools, and working knowledge of ERP integrations (Workday preferred)
• Strong analytical skills: comfort with large trans