Finance & Strategy – Datacenter FP&A

Join Anthropic as a Finance & Strategy, Datacenter FP&A leader based in San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY, managing the financial strategy for our critical datacenter infrastructure partnerships. In this full-time role, you'll drive financial operations and cost optimization for the infrastructure that powers our AI research.

What This Role Involves

You'll manage the profit-and-loss statement for Anthropic's datacenter partnerships with infrastructure providers. Working as a key financial partner to our infrastructure teams, you'll ensure projects remain on budget, identify and execute cost reduction opportunities, and minimize financial exposure. Your forecasts will inform board-level decisions, and you'll be the central finance contact for all partnership discussions.

Core Duties

• Direct financial planning and analysis across all live datacenter operating costs including lease payments, power consumption, hardware operations, facility oversight, physical security, warehouse operations, and provider fees
• Establish and maintain site-by-site cost forecasts, updated regularly to support monthly strategic reviews and board presentations
• Execute budget-to-actual reviews on datacenter developer spending and site development budgets, tracking committed expenditures
• Maintain the annual power spend model, including both pass-through and owned power costs
• Reconcile provider invoices with financial forecasts and establish the finance rhythm with operating partners
• Collaborate with Accounting on contract operationalization, lease accounting treatment, and period-end close procedures
• Assess financial implications of site optimization projects and operational structure changes
• Coordinate with the Infrastructure Expansion function during transition phases to ensure spending plans translate from agreement to implementation

What We're Looking For

• Background in strategic finance, project-level infrastructure finance, financial planning and analysis, private equity investment, business strategy consulting, or investment banking—preferably with experience in datacenters, power generation, commercial real estate, telecommunications, or managed service operations
• Demonstrated success managing infrastructure cost centers and implementing programs to reduce spending
• Strong quantitative abilities with capacity to convert raw data into clear insights and construct sophisticated financial models
• Ability to engage confidently as the financial expert when interacting with external partners and vendor teams
• High-execution orientation with strong work commitment and demonstrated success meeting ambitious deadlines
• Strong interpersonal style, sound business perspective, and clear communication
• Alignment with Anthropic's vision of creating safe, interpretable, controllable AI systems
• Preferred: 7+ years in strategic finance, project finance, financial analysis, private equity, consulting, or investment banking; experience with datacenter operations or power purchasing economics; background managing financial workflows with external service providers; AI, machine learning, or large-scale computing experience; proficiency in SQL, Python, or advanced Excel; MBA or equivalent advanced degree in finance, business, or economics

About Anthropic

Anthropic is building AI systems designed to be safe, reliable, and compatible with human oversight. Our core focus is developing AI that's interpretable—we can explain its decision-making—and responsive to human guidance. Our talented team spans research, engineering, policy, and business, united in pursuing transformative AI research using rigorous scientific methods. We believe great results come from tight collaboration and clear dialogue. Anthropic is structured as a public benefit corporation and headquartered in San Francisco. We provide market-competitive compensation, equity investment opportunities, robust time-off policies, schedule flexibility, and thoughtfully designed collaborative spaces for our team.

Applying for This Role

Candidates should have a bachelor's degree or equivalent substantive professional background in finance, operations, or infrastructure. Your professional experience should correspond to the requirements of this full-time position.

Anthropic actively sponsors employment visas and commits to making reasonable efforts to support immigration sponsorship for offer recipients; we work with immigration specialists to facilitate this process.

We genuinely encourage applications from candidates who don't see themselves meeting every stated criterion. Research demonstrates that people from underrepresented communities often doubt their qualifications despite being well-suited for roles; we want your application. Our work on AI systems with far-reaching societal implications demands diverse perspectives and varied lived experience.

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