Director, Infrastructure & Energy Accounting

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical accounting subject matter expert for Anthropic's most complex infrastructure and energy arrangements, leading classification, measurement, and subsequent accounting judgments
• Apply ASC 842 to complex lease arrangements, including lease identification, modifications, reassessments, and embedded leases within compute, colocation, and data center contracts
• Apply ASC 810 to counterparty and joint-venture structures, including variable interest entity (VIE) analysis for special purpose entities
• Apply ASC 815 to energy and infrastructure arrangements, including consideration of embedded derivatives
• 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
• Serve as a key point of contact with external auditors on technical accounting matters within your portfolio
• Mentor accounting professionals across the Infrastructure Accounting team on technical accounting matters
• Drive process improvements and automation, including leveraging AI tooling, to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of technical accounting work

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive experience in accounting, with meaningful time in a technical accounting role
• CPA required
• Strong technical accounting knowledge of ASC 842 (leases), ASC 810 (consolidation, including VIE analysis), and ASC 815 (derivatives and hedging), applied to real arrangements
• Experience accounting for energy contracts — Power Purchase Agreements, Virtual PPAs, Renewable Energy Credits, or similar commodity arrangements
• A track record of authoring and defending technical accounting memos on complex, judgment-intensive arrangements
• Strong analytical abilities and comfort working with large, complex contracts and datasets
• A track record of improving scalable technical accounting processes in fast-moving environments
• Ability to translate technical accounting concepts into financial implications for non-finance stakeholders
• Communication skills to communicate clearly and influence effectively across cross-functional partners — Real Estate, Legal, Finance, and Procurement
• Experience partnering with engineering, infrastructure, or operations teams to improve financial reporting and cost transparency
• 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
• Proven ability to navigate ambiguity and drive results in rapidly changing environments

Pay

The annual compensation range for this role is $230,000—$300,000 USD.

Benefits

Anthropic offers 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.