Financial Reporting Accountant

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Financial Reporting accountant to join our Finance team at Anthropic. In this role, you will be responsible for executing key aspects of our financial reporting processes, ensuring compliance with US GAAP, and supporting the implementation and optimization of our reporting systems.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and review external financial reporting deliverables, including quarterly and annual financial statements, ensuring full compliance with US GAAP and applicable reporting standards
• Execute month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close processes, coordinating with accounting teams to ensure timely and accurate completion
• Conduct technical accounting research and prepare documentation for complex transactions, including stock-based compensation (ASC 718), derivatives (ASC 815), lease accounting (ASC 842), as well as supporting implementing new accounting standards
• Serve as a key point of contact with external auditors, coordinating audit requests, preparing supporting documentation, and ensuring efficient completion of audit procedures
• Support the implementation and day-to-day operation of Workiva for financial reporting, controls documentation and compliance
• Develop and maintain accounting policies and procedures documentation
• Collaborate with Legal, Investor Relations, Tax, Equity Accounting and Finance & Strategy teams to ensure alignment between management and external reporting
• Contribute to special projects as needed, including system implementations, process improvements, and reporting automation initiatives

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in accounting
• Hold a CPA license (or equivalent) or are actively pursuing CPA (or equivalent) certification
• 7+ years of accounting experience, including experience in public accounting
• Possess expertise in US GAAP and SEC reporting experience is a plus
• Hands-on experience using Workiva or similar financial reporting platforms and are comfortable optimizing workflows within these tools
• Proficient with ERP systems; Workday Financials is a plus
• Experience supporting SOX compliance programs and working with external auditors
• Demonstrate exceptional attention to detail while maintaining the ability to see the big picture
• Effectively communicate complex accounting concepts to non-finance stakeholders
• Thrive in fast-paced, dynamic environments and can adapt quickly to changing priorities
• Care about the societal impacts of your work and are excited about Anthropic's mission to build safe, beneficial AI
• Strong Excel and data manipulation skills; experience with Python or SQL for reporting automation is a plus

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
• Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Lovely office space for collaboration

Pay

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

Schedule

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.

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.