Anthropic

Anthropic

Director, Infrastructure Lease Accounting

San Francisco, CA · Director

H1B sponsorship available$230k-$300kDetected 2 days ago
SQLMachine LearningNLPNegotiationFinancial AnalysisAccountingLogisticsProcurementResearchCommunicationFinancial ReportingRenewable Energy

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Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role100
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70

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H-1B wage level

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Level IV · 4×
Level I$80,8701 entry
Level II$121,0142 entries
Level III$161,1383 entries
Level IV$201,2824 entries

This range already reaches Level IV — the maximum four lottery entries.

DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Computer Occupations, All Other (15-1299) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.

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About the role

  • As we continue our rapid growth, you will ensure the financial statement accuracy of the most technically complex contracts we enter into.
  • This is an opportunity to be at the heart of one of the fastest-scaling companies in the industry, and to shape how Anthropic accounts for the highest-stakes arrangements underpinning our compute and energy portfolio.
  • You will serve as the technical accounting subject matter expert for arrangements spanning data center leases (ASC 842), and counterparty or joint-venture structures (ASC 810 VIE analysis).

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical accounting analysis and memo preparation for new arrangements, ensuring positions are well-reasoned, supported, and auditor-ready
  • 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
  • Drive process improvements and automation, including leveraging AI tooling, to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of technical accounting work
  • Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
  • We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications.

Requirements

  • Have 12+ years of progressive experience in accounting, with meaningful time in a technical accounting role
  • Hold a Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
  • Possess strong technical accounting knowledge of ASC 842 (leases), ASC 810 (consolidation, including VIE analysis), and ASC 815 (derivatives and hedging), applied to real arrangements
  • Have a track record of authoring and defending technical accounting memos on complex, judgment-intensive arrangements
  • Have a track record of improving scalable technical accounting processes in fast-moving environments
  • Have experience partnering with engineering, infrastructure, or operations teams to improve financial reporting and cost transparency
  • 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
  • Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Nice to have

  • Background in a Big 4 technical accounting practice (SEC reporting / technical consultation) combined with industry experience
  • Experience at hyperscalers, utilities, or energy companies with meaningful PPA, REC, or commodity-arrangement exposure
  • Experience with renewable energy contracts, carbon markets, or related clean-energy accounting frameworks
  • Exposure to data center and compute-related infrastructure arrangements (including colocation, dark fiber IRUs, and equipment leases)
  • Experience with lease accounting software and derivative / hedge accounting systems at scale
  • SQL proficiency for querying and analyzing large contract and accounting datasets
  • Knowledge of AI/ML infrastructure and associated cost structures
  • Experience applying AI tooling (including Claude) to technical accounting research, memo drafting, or close automation

Compensation

  • $230,000 - $300,000 USD

Company info

  • We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
  • At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts.
  • 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.
  • Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • 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.
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