Role Overview
The Senior Manager, Technical Accounting – M&A and Investments position oversees complex financial transactions within the finance division at Anthropic. Based in San Francisco, California or Seattle, Washington, this role suits an experienced accounting professional ready to guide mergers, acquisitions, and strategic investments.
Key Responsibilities
Execute technical accounting for business combinations, asset acquisitions, joint ventures, and related financing or equity structures.
Partner with Corporate Development to steer deal structures toward preferred terms, performing accounting due diligence on prospective transactions.
Execute end-to-end purchase accounting, including acquirer identification, consideration measurement, and recognition of assets, liabilities, and goodwill.
Handle post-close integration accounting such as conforming policies, ledger onboarding, working capital true-ups, and earn-out remeasurements.
Monitor consolidation and investment classification for investees and structured arrangements, supporting impairment and observable-price-change reviews.
Manage third-party valuation specialists to review purchase price allocations, intangible asset valuations, and impairment analyses.
Author and defend technical accounting policies and memoranda alongside external auditors.
Partner with Tax, Treasury, and Legal on deal structuring, basis-difference impacts, and financing instruments.
Refine the deal-accounting operating model, build playbooks, and ensure SOX-ready controls over non-routine transactions.
Prepare and review transaction-related disclosures for quarterly and annual filings, presenting conclusions to leadership.
Requirements
Hold 10 or more years of progressive accounting experience, featuring at least 4 years owning complex M&A and strategic investment accounting end-to-end.
Possess an active CPA license.
Bring significant Big 4 experience, ideally within a National Office, Transaction Advisory, or Capital Markets group, combined with in-house public or high-growth tech company experience.
Contributed to multiple closed acquisitions and minority or strategic investments of meaningful scale.
Deep command of US GAAP regarding business combinations, consolidation, equity method, and fair value measurement.
Fluent in valuation concepts with the ability to direct and challenge third-party specialists.
Experience operating within a deal-accounting or investments-accounting function.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with proficiency in tools like Workday and advanced Excel.
Nice to Have
Practitioner-level expertise in business combinations, consolidation, fair value measurement, and impairment testing.
Experience leading accounting for carve-outs, divestitures, spin-offs, or legal-entity rationalizations.
Background preparing or reviewing pro forma financial information and registration-statement disclosures.
Familiarity with novel AI or technology deal structures like acqui-hires, license-heavy transactions, and data arrangements.
Skills and Tools
US GAAP expertise including ASC 805, ASC 810, ASC 323, ASC 321, ASC 820, and ASC 350
Purchase price allocation and valuation review
SOX-ready controls and non-routine transaction management
Workday accounting systems and advanced Excel modeling
Salary and Benefits
Annual base salary ranging from $230,000 to $300,000 USD
Competitive compensation and benefits package
Optional equity donation matching
Generous vacation and parental leave
Flexible working hours
Collaborative office space with a location-based hybrid policy requiring at least 25% time in office
Visa sponsorship available for qualified candidates
About the Company
Anthropic operates as a public benefit corporation dedicated to building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that remain safe and beneficial for society. The organization functions as a single cohesive team focused on large-scale research efforts and empirical AI safety investigations.
How to Apply
Interested candidates should visit the official company careers page to submit an application for this position.
