Strategic Finance Lead: AI Compute & Infrastructure

Anthropic Limited; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 240,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation & benefits

Equity donation matching (optional)

Generous vacation & parental leave

Flexible working hours

Office space in SF

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Strategic Finance Lead to provide finance leadership for accelerator compute investments. You will partner with compute teams, develop economics models from training runs to long-range capacity planning, and translate complex technical dynamics into clear financial narratives for leadership.

This high-impact role requires budgeting, forecasting, scenario modeling, and close collaboration with engineering and research to optimize profitability in a fast-moving AI

Qualifications

• Exceptional analytical skills and ability to translate data into insights.
• Experience building complex financial operating models for tech infra.
• Proven track record partnering with technical teams to optimize financial outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Finance lead for accelerator compute spend, budgeting, monthly forecasting, variance analysis, and financial plan maintenance.
• Build detailed bottoms-up financial models for accelerator infrastructure and long-range forecasts.
• Develop expertise in compute contracts, pricing structures and cost drivers; surface optimization opportunities.
• Own compute capacity plan and serve as the source of truth and plan of record.
• Support financial planning tools implementation and scale models and processes across the org.
• Analyze ROI and economics of model training and research compute; distill into actionable capacity planning frameworks.
• Partner with engineering and research to translate technical dynamics into financial frameworks.

Skills

Financial modeling

Data analysis

Strategic finance

Cross-functional partner

Cloud compute economics

Stakeholder communication

Education

MBA or advanced degree in finance/economics/business

Tools

SQL

Python

Excel

Job description

Anthropic is seeking a Strategic Finance Lead to provide finance leadership for accelerator compute investments. You will partner with compute teams, develop economics models from training runs to long-range capacity planning, and translate complex technical dynamics into clear financial narratives for leadership.

This high-impact role requires budgeting, forecasting, scenario modeling, and close collaboration with engineering and research to optimize profitability in a fast-moving AI