Senior Manager, Compute Accounting
San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA · San Francisco · USD 190,000-230,000 / year · 10+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 5, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 10+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA · San Francisco
- Salary
- USD 190,000-230,000 / 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
- As a Senior Manager, Compute Accounting at Anthropic, you will own the end-to-end accounting for our compute and cloud infrastructure spend, ensuring accurate financial reporting and robust controls as we scale.
- You'll be responsible for the complete lifecycle of compute cost accounting—from contract review and technical accounting assessment, through accruals, prepaids, accounts payable reconciliation, expense classification, and commitment tracking.
Responsibilities
- Own the complete accounting lifecycle for compute and cloud infrastructure expenses, ensuring accurate and timely recording of all costs through monthly close, reconciliations, accruals, prepaids, journal entries, and flux analysis
- Review and interpret cloud service provider and infrastructure contracts to ensure proper accounting treatment, commitment tracking, and compliance with contractual terms
- Apply technical accounting expertise to complex compute infrastructure arrangements under ASC 842—including embedded-lease identification, lease vs. service classification, measurement, modifications, and reassessments
- Partner with Engineering, Legal, Procurement, and Finance teams during contract negotiation and execution to ensure accounting implications are understood before commitments are made
- Scope and formulate accounting policies governing how compute costs are recognized, classified, and amortized across an expanding portfolio of cloud service provider arrangements
- Design and implement accrual and prepayment processes that accurately reflect the timing and nature of cloud infrastructure costs, including capacity reservations, savings plans, and committed-use discounts
- Track and reconcile commitment-based agreements, ensuring proper recognition and disclosure of multi-year purchase obligations
- Lead accounts payable and vendor statement reconciliation efforts, working with cloud service providers to resolve discrepancies and ensure billing accuracy
- Build scalable processes and controls that can grow with the organization, and develop reporting and monitoring systems to provide visibility into compute spending patterns and trends
- Serve as a key point of contact with external auditors on compute cost accounting and commitment disclosure matters
Requirements
- CPA (or equivalent) with a deep understanding of GAAP and strong technical accounting skills
- Significant experience accounting for cloud service or compute infrastructure expenses, including review of associated contracts
- Working knowledge of ASC 842 as applied to compute, infrastructure, or data center arrangements (embedded leases, lease vs. service classification)
- Experience with cloud service provider cost structures and the unique challenges of accounting for consumption-based services
- Ability to translate complex contractual terms into proper accounting treatment, and to communicate the financial statement impact of decisions to non-finance stakeholders in clear, simple terms
- Proven experience building accounting processes, controls, and policy in high-growth environments
- Proficiency with modern ERP systems (NetSuite, Workday, Oracle, or similar)
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
Preferred qualifications
- 10+ years of progressive accounting experience
- Experience mentoring and developing accounting professionals
- A track record of leading process transformation, automation, or finance systems projects from scoping through delivery
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to dive deep into large datasets to identify issues and opportunities
- Comfort with cross-functional partnership in fast-paced environments where priorities can shift quickly
- SQL and BigQuery proficiency, enabling direct data analysis and validation against source systems
- Python skills for building automation and analytical tools
- Experience at cloud service providers, data center operators, or technology companies with consumption-based or usage-based business models
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation
- Parental leave
- Flexible working hours
Workplace
- Location-based hybrid policy requiring staff to be in one of the offices at least 25% of the time, though some roles may require more time in the offices.
Skills
- GAAP
- ASC 842
- NetSuite
- Workday
- Oracle
- SQL
- BigQuery
- Python
- Claude
