Finance Strategic Projects

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 Finance Strategic Projects leader to drive strategic finance initiatives cross-functionally. You will partner with the Controller, CFO, and senior leadership to orchestrate complex, multi-quarter programs that require exceptional executive-level stakeholder management and change management expertise. This is a unique opportunity to build the foundation for a world-class finance function at one of the most innovative AI companies.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end program management for strategic finance initiatives
• Establish and lead steering committees with executive leadership, providing clear visibility into program status, risks, dependencies, and decision requirements
• Drive cross-functional alignment on requirements gathering and timelines for execution
• Manage relationships with external consultants, partners, and vendors
• Identify and resolve critical path dependencies, escalate risks proactively, and develop mitigation strategies for complex program challenges
• Translate strategic vision from finance leadership into actionable workstreams with clear ownership, milestones, and success metrics
• Establish program management best practices, templates, and frameworks that can scale across the finance organization
• Develop executive-level communications and presentations for Board, Audit Committee, and senior leadership on program progress

You May Be a Good Fit If You Have

• 15+ years of experience in finance or accounting with at least 5 years leading strategic programs
• MBA or CPA certification
• Deep understanding of how the impacts of strategic transactions lead by finance might have downstream impacts to broader teams (e.g. accounting processes, financial systems architecture, etc)
• Exceptional program management skills with demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives with competing priorities
• Strategic thinker who can translate business objectives into detailed execution plans while maintaining sight of the big picture
• Outstanding stakeholder management and communication skills, with ability to influence and align diverse stakeholders across all organizational levels
• Strong financial and analytical skills with ability to build business cases and measure ROI
• Change management expertise
• Experience in leveraging AI

The expected base compensation for this position is below. Our total compensation package for full-time employees includes equity, benefits, and may include incentive compensation.

Annual Salary
$230,000 - $300,000 USD

Logistics
Education requirements:
We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

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.

How We're Different
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. 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. As such, we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.
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