Senior Business Systems Analyst, Finance Systems

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 205,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity donation matching

Generous vacation and parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space with collaboration area

Job summary

Anthropic Limited is seeking an experienced Senior Business Systems Analyst to join our Finance Systems team. You will serve as the internal functional lead for Workday Financials, owning the Financial Data Model, Chart of Accounts, and dimensional structures to support financial reporting.

You will develop Prism Analytics and Accounting Center solutions, gather requirements, and build reporting capabilities in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in finance systems, ERP implementations, or business systems analysis.
• 5+ years hands-on Workday Financials experience.
• Strong Workday FDM design, Worktags, hierarchies, and Accounting Books knowledge.
• Experience with Workday Prism Analytics for data modeling, source integration, reporting.

Responsibilities

• Serve as internal functional lead for Workday Financials, guiding configuration decisions and validating designs.
• Own design and configuration of the Financial Data Model and Chart of Accounts for GAAP and management reporting.
• Develop Prism Analytics and Accounting Center solutions, integrating with external data sources like BigQuery.
• Gather requirements and translate them into executive dashboards and analytics solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful Workday adoption and data integrity.

Skills

Finance systems

Workday Financials

Requirements gathering

Reporting / Analytics

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

SQL/Python scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Prism Analytics

Accounting Center

BigQuery

Pigment

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 an experienced Senior Business Systems Analyst to join our Finance Systems team at Anthropic. In this role, based on our recent go live on Workday Financials, you will serve as the internal functional lead for our Workday Financials,, owning the design and configuration of the Financial Data Model (FDM), Chart of Accounts, and dimensional structures that will serve as the source of truth for financial reporting. You will develop Prism Analytics and Accounting Center solutions, gather requirements and build reporting capabilities, and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to drive the successful adoption of the Workday platform.

This is a critical role that will directly shape how Anthropic's finance organization operates as we scale toward public company readiness. You will work at the intersection of finance domain expertise and technical implementation, partnering with the implementation partner, engineering teams, and finance stakeholders to build a world-class financial systems foundation.

In this role, you will

• ERP Core Financials: Serve as internal functional lead for Workday Financials, partnering with partners to drive configuration decisions, validate designs, and ensure business requirements are met. Partner with consultants for Phase X / net new implementations.
• Financial Data Model (FDM) Design: Own the design and configuration of Chart of Accounts, Worktags, dimensional hierarchies, and Accounting Books that will serve as the source of truth for all financial reporting, ensuring support for both GAAP and Management reporting requirements
• Prism Analytics Development: Develop and maintain Prism/Accounting Center solutions from source analysis and ingestion design through build and testing,, including integration with external data sources like BigQuery and Pigment
• Requirements Gathering & Reporting: Gather business requirements from Finance, Accounting, and FP&A stakeholders, translating them into hands‐on development of executive reporting, dashboards, and analytics solutions
• Workshop Participation & Solution Design: Participate in implementation workshops, challenge requirements, and translate business needs into buildable designs and testable acceptance criteria; manage defects and data quality issues throughout the project lifecycle for all implementations impacting Workday Record to Report (R2R)
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with Integrations, Security, and Financials configuration teams to align master data, journals, controls, and performance service level agreements; partner with Data Infrastructure and BizTech teams on system integrations
• Platform Expansion & Adoption: Work closely with engineering teams and business stakeholders to drive ongoing expansion and adoption of the Workday platform (e.g. bi‑annual releases), identifying opportunities for process improvement and automation.

You may be a good fit if you

• Have 8+ years of experience in finance systems, ERP implementation, or business systems analysis roles, with at least 5 years of hands‐on Workday Financials experience
• Possess deep expertise in Workday Financial Data Model (FDM), including Chart of Accounts design, Worktags configuration, dimensional hierarchies, and Accounting Books setup
• Have strong experience with Workday Prism Analytics, including data modeling, source integration, calculated fields, and report development
• Are skilled at translating complex business requirements into technical solutions, bridging the gap between finance stakeholders and technical implementation teams
• Have experience with full ERP implementation lifecycles, including requirements gathering, configuration, testing, data migration, cutover planning, and hypercare
• Possess strong understanding of financial accounting processes including General Ledger, multi‑entity consolidation, intercompany accounting, and management reporting
• Have excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with ability to work effectively with finance leadership, accounting teams, and technical partners
• Demonstrate strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy and integrity
• Are comfortable working in fast‑paced, high‑growth environments with evolving requirements and tight timelines

Strong candidates may also have

• Background in accounting, finance, or CPA certification with understanding of GAAP/IFRS reporting requirements
• Experience with Workday Accounting Center for complex journal automation and subledger accounting
• Technical proficiency with SQL, Python, or scripting languages for data analysis and integration support
• Experience integrating Workday with external data platforms such as BigQuery or cloud data warehouses
• Knowledge of SOX compliance requirements and internal controls for financial systems
• Experience with EPM/FP&A systems such as Pigment, Anaplan, or Adaptive Planning and their integration with ERP
• Prior experience at high‑growth technology companies scaling toward IPO readiness
• Familiarity with Workday HCM and understanding of HCM‑Financials integration points
• Experience with data migration tools, ETL processes, and reconciliation frameworks for ERP implementations

Annual Salary

$205,000—$270,000 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.

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.

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