Vendor Admin Lead

Anthropic; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Anthropic is seeking a Vendor Admin Lead to own vendor master data for Global Accounts Payable. You will manage onboarding, bank details, tax flags, and SOX controls, ensuring clean vendor data across US, Europe, and APAC. This role is distinct from invoicing and payments and focuses on security and process controls.

You will drive intake for new vendors, validate documentation, and maintain ERP access models, while partnering with TPRM and IA to strengthen controls and reduce risk.

Qualifications

• Experience owning vendor master data and controls in ERP systems.
• Experience with tax and 1099 data and vendor screening.

Responsibilities

• Own vendor-master data and bank-detail setup across entities and countries.
• Lead SOX controls and change-log review; ensure segregation of duties.
• Run vendor onboarding, documentation vetting, and risk screening.
• Support automation efforts for intake validation and reporting.
• Collaborate with TPRM and IA for control requirements and improvements.

Skills

Vendor master ownership

SOX controls

Data validation

Stakeholder management

Excel/Sheets

Fraud prevention

AI-assisted automation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Workday Financials

Zip

Coupa

Job description

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 looking for a Vendor Admin Lead to own vendor master data for our global Finance Operations team. Reporting to the Director of Global Accounts Payable, you will be the single point of accountability for who our vendors are and get paid: onboarding, bank-detail verification, supporting documentation vetting, data quality and the controls around all of it. Anthropic's vendor base is growing quickly across the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific, and a clean, verified vendor data is what keeps a fast-growing company scale with the necessary controls.

This role is deliberately separate from invoice processing and payments. You will control vendor records and bank details; you will not book invoices or move money. That separation is the point of the role, and you will own the SOX controls that enforce it and help design the access model that keeps it that way.

This is an opportunity to build a vendor-master function from the ground up and leverage process automation with Claude while supporting the team making AI safe.

Run intake for every new vendor and payee: validate completeness, collect and verify supporting documentation, and enable records in the ERP backbone system against agreed service levels

Validate supporting documents; set 1099-reportable and tax flags correctly

Confirm third-party risk and restricted-party screening before activation

Set up one-time and non-vendor payees with the right record type rather than forcing them through full onboarding

Partner with TPRM and IA teams on control requirements and continuous process improvement

1099 annual reporting

Own every bank-detail setup and change; validate against a bank letter on letterhead or an approved equivalent (void checks, etc.)

Run independent callbacks per policy using contact details sourced independently of the request, and record the evidence

Validate international bank formats and addresses (IBAN, SWIFT/BIC, ABA, SEPA, BSB, IFSC, Japanese bank/branch codes)

Identify and escalation business-email-compromise attempts and other payment-fraud red flags

Maintain vendor structure: parent/child and remit-to relationships, entity and country records, contacts and payment terms

Lead vendor consolidation: eliminate duplicate vendors and bank accounts, execute merges and inactivations in batched, logged, reviewed changes

Run periodic health reviews for dormant vendors, stale bank letters, missing tax forms and incomplete records; drive 1099 and TIN readiness for year-end

Own the vendor-master SOX controls as the named control owner: maker-checker on every create and change, change-log review, evidence retained on every record

Prepare the periodic review of bank-detail changes paid, and address Internal Audit and external auditor requests

Partner with Finance Systems to design and maintain ERP security roles so vendor master, invoicing and payments stay separated

Flag any suspicious vendor set-up activity through the appropriate channels

Own vendor-master documentation, intake checklists, requester guidance and service levels

Serve as the vendor-data expert through process migrations, including data conversion and post-migration fixes

Partner on automation: AI-assisted intake validation, document extraction, bank-format checks and a vendor self-service portal

Report monthly on onboarding volume, cycle time, bank changes, exceptions and data quality, and use the data to improve the process

• 7+ years in vendor master or AP operations with 3+ years of ownership

Owned a vendor master in an ERP end to end — process, controls and data — across multiple entities and countries

Hands-on experience verifying bank details and preventing payment fraud: bank letters, independent callbacks, BEC red flags, international bank formats

Experience with vendor tax documentation: W-9/W-8 validation, TIN matching, VAT/GST IDs, 1099 flagging

Working knowledge of procure-to-pay controls — segregation of duties, maker-checker, change logs, audit evidence — and have performed or owned a SOX control

Led a vendor data cleanup, consolidation or ERP migration and can show the outcome

The confidence to hold the line with requesters, vendors and senior stakeholders under time pressure while staying clear and helpful

Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills with large datasets (dedupe, lookups, reconciliations) and exceptional attention to detail

Workday Financials vendor management, and experience with Zip, Coupa or a similar procure-to-pay platform

SOX experience at a public company or one preparing to go public

Experience supporting APAC and EMEA vendors in a high-growth, multi-entity company

Experience designing or reviewing ERP security roles with a systems team

Comfort using AI tools to automate validation, follow-ups and reporting

The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.

For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.

$190,000 - $230,000 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.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

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