Director, Technical Accounting – Investments
San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA · San Francisco · USD 230,000-300,000 / year · 4+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 8, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 4+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA · San Francisco
- Salary
- USD 230,000-300,000 / year · Base salary
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship available
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
- We are seeking a Director, Technical Accounting – Investments and M&A to join our Finance team at Anthropic.
- In this role, you will own the company's accounting for strategic investments, partnerships with investment components, and related capital transactions, and support mergers and acquisitions when deal volume requires.
- This is a builder role: you'll help stand up and continuously sharpen the portfolio accounting process, controls, and valuation governance expected of a world class finance organization.
Responsibilities
- Execute technical accounting for strategic investments, joint ventures, partnership structures, and related financing/equity instruments from entry through exit
- Partner with and influence Corporate Development to steer investment structures toward preferred terms and outcomes, reviewing term sheets and deal documents before signing
- Own entry accounting for each new investment — classification under ASC 321, 323, or 810, VIE/primary-beneficiary analysis, basis differences, and the initial measurement memo
- Run the quarterly portfolio review — reconsideration events, impairment indicators, observable price changes, and equity method pick-ups — and account for follow-on investments, conversions, down rounds, and exits
- Own the investment rollforward, its reconciliation to the general ledger, and the portfolio reporting that supports close, FP&A, and leadership, including review of portfolio company financial statements
- Manage third-party valuation specialists; review fair values of investments, warrants, and derivative features, including Level 3 inputs and impairment analyses
- Assess warrants, equity rights, and other investment components embedded in partnerships and compute arrangements, partnering with Accounting Policy on how consideration is allocated
- Support M&A transactions alongside the M&A lead when deal volume requires — accounting due diligence, purchase accounting (consideration measurement, PPA review, opening balance sheet), and measurement-period adjustments
- Author and defend technical accounting policies & memoranda; partner closely with external auditors on investment, consolidation, and M&A matters
- Help build the investments operating model — intake form and approval gates, memo templates, quarterly checklists, and SOX-ready controls — designed to scale as the portfolio grows including utilizing Claude, ERP systems and third party applications (as applicable)
Requirements
- Bring significant Big 4 experience — ideally in a National Office, Transaction/Deal Advisory, or Capital Markets/Accounting Advisory group — paired with in-house experience at a technology company and public accounting or advisory experience
- Proven experience leading complex valuations (e.g., business combinations, equity and debt investments, warrants and other Level 3 instruments), including directing and challenging the work of third-party valuation specialists
- Have owned the accounting for a portfolio of minority/strategic investments, including quarterly impairment and fair value monitoring and at least one investment of meaningful scale or complexity
- Possess deep command of US GAAP for investments in equity securities, equity method, consolidation and VIEs, fair value measurement, and business combinations, with a track record of positions that withstand auditor and regulator scrutiny
- Are fluent in valuation concepts and can direct and challenge third-party specialists on private company fair value, warrant/option pricing, impairment, and PPA models
- Have operated within an investments-accounting or deal-accounting function, contributing to playbook and controls design
- Communicate effectively with Corporate Development, Legal, and Tax on structuring trade-offs, translating technical conclusions for cross-functional and senior stakeholders
- Demonstrate exceptional written and verbal communication, translating complex investment and deal accounting into clear business implications
- Excel at hands-on technical execution in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment, shifting between portfolio work and live deals as priorities change
- Are proficient with accounting systems (Workday preferred), consolidation tools, and advanced Excel/modeling
Preferred qualifications
- Have 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 4+ years owning strategic investment, equity method, or consolidation accounting end-to-end
- Have deep, practitioner-level expertise in investments in equity securities, equity method, and consolidation (ASC 321, 323, 810)
- Hold an active CPA license
- Have built an investment accounting process from the ground up, including intake, quarterly monitoring, and SOX-compliant controls over non-routine/complex transactions
- Have prepared or reviewed investment disclosures in SEC filings, including fair value hierarchy, equity method, and VIE disclosures
Benefits
- competitive compensation
- competitive benefits
- optional equity donation matching
- generous vacation
- parental leave
- flexible working hours
Workplace
- Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.
Skills
- US GAAP
- ASC 321
- ASC 820
- ASC 805
- ASC 808
- Workday
- Excel
- Claude
