Senior Analyst, Travel & Expense

San Francisco · USD 190,000-230,000 / year · 7+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 8, 2026

At a glance

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.

The Senior Analyst, Travel & Expense will manage day-to-day financial controls, audit programs, and executive reporting for Anthropic's T&E function. This role involves scaling controls to meet public-company standards while partnering with cross-functional teams to manage global travel and expense operations.

Own day-to-day operation of T&E controls including approvals, card issuance, spend limits, and policy exceptions.
Maintain T&E process narratives and the risk and control matrix.
Ensure correct GL coding and accurate month-end reconciliations across Navan, Brex, and Workday.
Act as the preparer for T&E controls and primary contact for internal and external auditors.
Set up and maintain entity-level coding and approval flows in Brex and Navan for new legal entities.
Document and operationalize country-specific rules for per diems, VAT reclaim, and local tax treatment.
Design and execute a risk-based audit program covering sampling, anomaly detection, and misuse escalation.
Build dashboards and reporting on policy compliance and control performance for Finance leadership.
Partner with the Head of T&E to deploy Claude to review transactions and automate reporting.
Own transaction-level review and receipt follow-up while shaping automation strategies.

7+ years of experience in travel and expense, corporate accounting, internal audit, or finance operations.
Hands-on SOX or internal-controls experience including writing process narratives and testing controls.
Strong accounting fundamentals including GL coding, reconciliations, accruals, and month-end close support.
Deep platform expertise in Navan or comparable TMC platforms.
Experience with Brex or equivalent expense management tools.
Working knowledge of ERP integrations, specifically Workday.
Strong analytical skills with comfort in large transaction datasets and sampling methods.
Experience with multi-entity, multi-currency environments including VAT and cross-border tax.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Clear written and verbal communication skills.

Location-based hybrid policy requiring staff to be in the office at least 25% of the time.