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 Finance Strategic Initiatives leader to complex and impactful initiatives cross-functionally. You will partner with the Controller, CFO, and senior leadership to orchestrate complex, multi-quarter programs that require exceptional executive-level stakeholder management and change management expertise. This is a unique opportunity to build the foundation for a world-class finance function at one of the most innovative AI companies.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end program management for strategic finance initiatives
- Establish and lead steering committees with executive leadership, providing clear visibility into program status, risks, dependencies, and decision requirements
- Drive cross-functional alignment on requirements gathering and timelines for execution
- Manage relationships with external consultants, partners, and vendors
- Identify and resolve critical path dependencies, escalate risks proactively, and develop mitigation strategies for complex program challenges
- Translate strategic vision from finance leadership into actionable workstreams with clear ownership, milestones, and success metrics
- Establish program management best practices, templates, and frameworks that can scale across the finance organization
- Develop executive-level communications and presentations for Board, Audit Committee, and senior leadership on program progress
You may be a good fit if you have
- 15+ years of experience in finance or accounting with at least 5 years leading strategic programs
- MBA or CPA certification
- Deep understanding of how the impacts of strategic transactions lead by finance might have downstream impacts to broader teams (e.g. accounting processes, financial systems architecture, etc)
- Exceptional program management skills with demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives with competing priorities
- Strategic thinker who can translate business objectives into detailed execution plans while maintaining sight of the big picture
- Outstanding stakeholder management and communication skills, with ability to influence and align diverse stakeholders across all organizational levels
- Strong financial and analytical skills with ability to build business cases and measure ROI
- Change management expertise
- Experience in leveraging AI
- The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
- For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
How we're different
- We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI — rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact work at any given time. As such, we greatly value communication skills.
- The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic, including: GPT-3, Circuit-Based Interpretability, Multimodal Neurons, Scaling Laws, AI & Compute, Concrete Problems in AI Safety, and Learning from Human Preferences.
