Senior Manager, Infrastructure Lease Accounting

EngineersOfAI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic in New York is seeking a Senior Manager, Infrastructure Lease Accounting to own end-to-end accounting for its infrastructure lease portfolio underpinning the company’s expanding compute infrastructure. You will apply ASC 842, manage monthly close, and partner with Real Estate, Legal and Finance to ensure accurate reporting.

You will mentor the accounting team, design scalable controls, drive automation, and serve as a main point of contact with external auditors to support Anthropic’s

Qualifications

• Strong ASC 842 knowledge applied to infrastructure leases.
• Experience managing a large lease portfolio in high-growth environments.
• Ability to translate complex accounting into business implications.
• Proven track record mentoring accounting professionals.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end accounting for infrastructure lease portfolio, incl. close and reconciliations.
• Apply ASC 842 to complex arrangements and reassessments.
• Collaborate with Real Estate, Legal, Finance, and IT teams during negotiations.
• Serve as finance partner to non-finance stakeholders with clear explanations.
• Design scalable processes and controls to support growth.
• Liaise with external auditors on lease accounting matters.
• Drive process improvements and automation, including AI tooling.

Skills

ASC 842 expertise

Lease accounting

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance

CPA or equivalent preferred

Tools

Lease accounting software

SQL

ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite/Oracle)

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

Anthropic is seeking a Senior Manager, Infrastructure Lease Accounting to join our Infrastructure Accounting team. In this role, you will execute day-to-day accounting for Anthropic's infrastructure lease portfolio — the leased assets underpinning our recently announced $50bn investment in American computing infrastructure. As we continue our rapid growth, you will help ensure the operational scalability and financial accuracy of the core functions that enable Anthropic's research and commercial success.

This is an opportunity to be at the heart of one of the fastest-scaling companies in the industry, and to shape how Anthropic's growing lease portfolio is accounted for and understood across the business.

You will own end-to-end accounting for Anthropic's infrastructure lease portfolio, working closely with cross-functional partners across Data Center Operations, Real Estate, Finance, and Legal. You'll apply deep technical accounting expertise under ASC 842, and help build the processes, controls, and systems that let this function scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end accounting for one of Anthropic's AI infrastructure lease portfolio, 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 teams during contract negotiation and execution to ensure accounting implications are understood before commitments are made
• Serve as a trusted finance partner to non-finance stakeholders — explaining the financial statement impact of their decisions in clear, simple terms they can act on
• Collaborate cross-functionally to improve the quality of 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 the efficiency and accuracy of financial reporting

Minimum qualifications

• Hold a Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA or equivalent preferred
• Possess strong technical accounting knowledge of ASC 842, particularly as applied to infrastructure, data center, or compute-related arrangements
• Have experience managing a significant lease portfolio in a high-growth environment
• Demonstrate strong analytical abilities and comfort working with large, complex datasets
• Have a track record of improving scalable financial processes in fast-moving environments
• Have experience mentoring and developing accounting professionals
• Are adept at translating technical accounting concepts into financial implications for non-finance stakeholders
• Communicate clearly and influence effectively across cross-functional partners
• Have experience partnering with engineering, infrastructure, or operations teams to improve financial reporting and cost transparency

Preferred qualifications

• Have 10+ years of progressive experience in accounting, with operational experience at technology or infrastructure-heavy companies
• Experience at hyperscalers, large compute consumers, or data center operators with exposure to infrastructure lease structures (including colocation, dark fiber IRUs, and compute / equipment leases)
• Experience with lease accounting software at scale
• SQL proficiency for querying and analyzing large infrastructure and accounting datasets
• Background in Big 4 accounting or advis