Senior Compute Accounting Manager — Cloud Spend & Controls

EngineersOfAI; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic seeks a Senior Manager, Compute Accounting to own end-to-end accounting for compute and cloud infrastructure spend, ensuring accurate reporting, robust controls, and scalable processes in a high-growth setting.

You will partner with Engineering, Legal, Procurement, and Finance to ensure proper accounting implications are understood before commitments, and you’ll mentor the Compute Accounting team while driving automation across close workflows.

Qualifications

• CPA (or equivalent) with GAAP knowledge.
• Significant experience accounting for cloud service or compute infrastructure expenses, including review of associated contracts.
• Working knowledge of ASC 842 as applied to compute, infrastructure, or data center arrangements (embedded leases, lease vs. service classification).

Responsibilities

• Own the complete accounting lifecycle for compute and cloud infrastructure expenses, ensuring accurate and timely recording of all costs through monthly close, reconciliations, accruals, prepaids, journal entries, and flux analysis.
• Review and interpret cloud service provider and infrastructure contracts to ensure proper accounting treatment, commitment tracking, and compliance with contractual terms.
• Apply technical accounting expertise to complex compute infrastructure arrangements under ASC 842—including embedded-lease identification, lease vs. service classification, measurement, modifications, and reassessments.
• Partner with Engineering, Legal, Procurement, and Finance teams during contract negotiation and execution to ensure accounting implications are understood before commitments are made.
• Scope and formulate accounting policies governing how compute costs are recognized, classified, and amortized across an expanding portfolio of cloud service provider arrangements.
• Design and implement accrual and prepayment processes that accurately reflect the timing and nature of cloud infrastructure costs, including capacity reservations, savings plans, and committed-use discounts.
• Track and reconcile commitment-based agreements, ensuring proper recognition and disclosure of multi-year purchase obligations.
• Lead accounts payable and vendor statement reconciliation efforts, working with cloud service providers to resolve discrepancies and ensure billing accuracy.
• Build scalable processes and controls that can grow with the organization, and develop reporting and monitoring systems to provide visibility into compute spending patterns and trends.
• Serve as a key point of contact with external auditors on compute cost accounting and commitment disclosure matters.
• Collaborate with and mentor accounting professionals across the Compute Accounting team, and serve as the subject matter expert on compute accounting matters for cross-functional partners.
• Lead process transformation and automation initiatives—redesigning close workflows, building automated data pipelines and reporting, and leveraging AI tooling—and manage cross-functional projects from scoping through delivery.

Skills

GAAP expertise

ASC 842 knowledge

Technical accounting

Cloud compute accounting

Contract review

Education

CPA (or equivalent)

Job description

Anthropic seeks a Senior Manager, Compute Accounting to own end-to-end accounting for compute and cloud infrastructure spend, ensuring accurate reporting, robust controls, and scalable processes in a high-growth setting.

You will partner with Engineering, Legal, Procurement, and Finance to ensure proper accounting implications are understood before commitments, and you’ll mentor the Compute Accounting team while driving automation across close workflows.