Senior Manager, M&A Finance Integration
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
- Anthropic is seeking a Senior Manager, M&A Finance Integration to run the finance function's role in each transaction, from LOI through Day 1 readiness and post-close execution.
- This role involves owning the program management of Anthropic's growing legal entity footprint and acting as the day-to-day operator of the M&A Finance Integration program.
- The ideal candidate has operated in a similar function at a high-growth technology company and brings accounting fluency to build rigorous, repeatable processes.
Responsibilities
- Scope and own the finance integration plan for each transaction across every phase, from LOI and due diligence through signing, sign-to-close, and Day 90, spanning finance functions.
- Tailor the plan to the integration model (full integration vs. standalone subsidiary) and define each function's baseline activities and standalone-specific deltas.
- Ensure every function is engaged at the right phase, with clear owners, dependencies, and escalation paths.
- Run the integration operating rhythm: workstream check-ins, issue logs, risk registers, RACI matrices, decision logs, and status reporting to finance leadership.
- Negotiate deliverables and trade-offs directly with functional leads; escalate to the Director with a recommendation when priorities conflict.
- Drive Finance Day 1 readiness: bank account control and signers, payroll cutover, AP/AR continuity, ERP entity, cost-center and project-code setup, chart-of-accounts mapping, and expense policy communication.
- Run the Day 1 checklist and 30/60/90-day follow-through, ensuring acquired entities are onboarded without disruption to the close cycle.
- Coordinate the closing spreadsheet, net working capital mechanics, and post-close true-up with Corporate Development, Legal and Technical Accounting.
- Build and run the end-to-end entity setup process: decision documentation, incorporation, tax registrations, banking, ERP entity creation, functional-currency assessment, payroll or employer-of-record bridge, and statutory / compliance calendar onboarding.
- Build and own the Legal Entity Playbook and maintain sections of the modular M&A Finance Integration Playbook.
Requirements
- Demonstrated end-to-end ownership of at least two finance integration projects or entity set up projects, from planning through post-close execution, including project plan ownership and executive reporting.
- Working accounting fluency across the areas your stakeholders own: the close calendar, chart of accounts, intercompany, statutory reporting, purchase accounting fundamentals, and the finance implications of common deal structures.
- Strong program-management capability: comfortable scoping ambiguous work, owning multiple parallel workstreams, and managing to milestones without extensive oversight.
- Experience with ERP systems (NetSuite, Oracle, SAP, or equivalent) in an acquisition and migration context.
- Cross-functional credibility with Legal, Tax, People, Corporate Development, and Finance sub-functions, and the ability to drive outcomes across competing timelines and risk tolerances.
- Comfort operating under deal-environment time pressure and confidentiality, with sound judgment when processes are being defined in real time.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to distill complex operational issues into clear, decision-ready briefings.
- Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
- Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
Preferred qualifications
- 10+ years in finance, accounting, or finance operations, with at least 3 years running cross-functional programs at a high-growth technology company, with a focus in M&A integration or legal entity programs.
- Have built or significantly contributed to a finance integration playbook, template library, or integration management office infrastructure from scratch.
- Bring international entity experience: new-jurisdiction setup, statutory audit and local GAAP obligations, employer-of-record bridges, transfer pricing and intercompany agreements.
- Have worked with standalone-subsidiary integration models, consolidation bridges, and equity-method investments.
- Be an active user of AI tools in their own workflow and excited to push program management toward automation.
- Hold a CPA, ACA, ACCA, or CA qualification.
- Be genuinely excited about AI safety and aligned with Anthropic's mission to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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
- NetSuite
- Oracle
- SAP
- ERP Systems
