Finance Systems, Senior Business Systems Analyst
San Francisco, CAFull-TimeSeniorAccounts / Finance
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
- We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Systems Analyst to join our Finance Systems team at Anthropic. In this role, you will serve as the internal functional lead for our Workday Financials implementation, owning the design and configuration of the Financial Data Model (FDM), Chart of Accounts, and dimensional structures that will serve as the source of truth for financial reporting. You will develop Prism Analytics and Accounting Center solutions, gather requirements and build reporting capabilities, and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to drive the successful adoption of our new ERP platform.
- This is a critical role that will directly shape how Anthropic's finance organization operates as we scale toward public company readiness. You will work at the intersection of finance domain expertise and technical implementation, partnering with the implementation partner, engineering teams, and finance stakeholders to build a world-class financial systems foundation.
In this role, you will
- ERP Core Financials Implementation: Serve as internal functional lead for Workday Financials implementation, partnering with consultants to drive configuration decisions, validate designs, and ensure business requirements are met
- Financial Data Model (FDM) Design: Own the design and configuration of Chart of Accounts, Worktags, dimensional hierarchies, and Accounting Books that will serve as the source of truth for all financial reporting, ensuring support for both GAAP and Management reporting requirements
- Prism Analytics Development: Develop and maintain Prism/Accounting Center solutions from source analysis and ingestion design through build, testing, cutover, and hypercare, including integration with external data sources like BigQuery and Pigment
- Requirements Gathering & Reporting: Gather business requirements from Finance, Accounting, and FP&A stakeholders, translating them into hands-on development of executive reporting, dashboards, and analytics solutions
- Workshop Participation & Solution Design: Participate in implementation workshops, challenge requirements, and translate business needs into buildable designs and testable acceptance criteria; manage defects and data quality issues throughout the project lifecycle
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with Integrations, Security, and Financials configuration teams to align master data, journals, controls, and performance service level agreements; partner with Data Infrastructure and BizTech teams on system integrations
- Cutover & Hypercare Planning: Prepare cutover plans, data migration strategies, reconciliation frameworks, and hypercare plans; document data lineage, controls, and audit artifacts to support SOX compliance requirements
- Platform Expansion & Adoption: Work closely with engineering teams and business stakeholders to drive ongoing expansion and adoption of the Workday platform, identifying opportunities for process improvement and automation
You may be a good fit if you
- Have 8+ years of experience in finance systems, ERP implementation, or business systems analysis roles, with at least 5 years of hands-on Workday Financials experience
- Possess deep expertise in Workday Financial Data Model (FDM), including Chart of Accounts design, Worktags configuration, dimensional hierarchies, and Accounting Books setup
- Have strong experience with Workday Prism Analytics, including data modeling, source integration, calculated fields, and report development
- Are skilled at translating complex business requirements into technical solutions, bridging the gap between finance stakeholders and technical implementation teams
- Have experience with full ERP implementation lifecycles, including requirements gathering, configuration, testing, data migration, cutover planning, and hypercare
- Possess strong understanding of financial accounting processes including General Ledger, multi-entity consolidation, intercompany accounting, and management reporting
- Have excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with ability to work effectively with finance leadership, accounting teams, and technical partners
- Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy and integrity
- Are comfortable working in fast-paced, high-growth environments with evolving requirements and tight timelines
- Have 8+ years of experience in finance systems, ERP implementation, or business systems analysis roles, with at least 5 years of hands-on Workday Financials experience
- Possess deep expertise in Workday Financial Data Model (FDM), including Chart of Accounts design, Worktags configuration, dimensional hierarchies, and Accounting Books setup
- Have strong experience with Workday Prism Analytics, including data modeling, source integration, calculated fields, and report development
- Are skilled at translating complex business requirements into technical solutions, bridging the gap between finance stakeholders and technical implementation teams
- Have experience with full ERP implementation lifecycles, including requirements gathering, configuration, testing, data migration, cutover planning, and hypercare
- Possess strong understanding of financial accounting processes including General Ledger, multi-entity consolidation, intercompany accounting, and management reporting
- Have excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with ability to work effectively with finance leadership, accounting teams, and technical partners
- Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy and integrity
- Are comfortable working in fast-paced, high-growth environments with evolving requirements and tight timelines
Strong candidates may also have
- Background in accounting, finance, or CPA certification with understanding of GAAP/IFRS reporting requirements
- Experience with Workday Accounting Center for complex journal automation and subledger accounting
- Technical proficiency with SQL, Python, or scripting languages for data analysis and integration support
- Experience integrating Workday with external data platforms such as BigQuery or cloud data warehouses
- Knowledge of SOX compliance requirements and internal controls for financial systems
- Experience with EPM/FP&A systems such as Pigment, Anaplan, or Adaptive Planning and their integration with ERP
- Prior experience at high-growth technology companies scaling toward IPO readiness
- Familiarity with Workday HCM and understanding of HCM-Financials integration points
- Experience with data migration tools, ETL processes, and reconciliation frameworks for ERP implementations
- Background in accounting, finance, or CPA certification with understanding of GAAP/IFRS reporting requirements
- Experience with Workday Accounting Center for complex journal automation and subledger accounting
- Technical proficiency with SQL, Python, or scripting languages for data analysis and integration support
- Experience integrating Workday with external data platforms such as BigQuery or cloud data warehouses
- Knowledge of SOX compliance requirements and internal controls for financial systems
- Experience with EPM/FP&A systems such as Pigment, Anaplan, or Adaptive Planning and their integration with ERP
- Prior experience at high-growth technology companies scaling toward IPO readiness
- Familiarity with Workday HCM and understanding of HCM-Financials integration points
- Experience with data migration tools, ETL processes, and reconciliation frameworks for ERP implementations
- 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.
