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Anthropic

Builds Claude AI models with a focus on safety

Strategic Finance Lead

Corporate Finance & FP&AUpdated on Nov 11
Full-timeSan Francisco, CA, USA$240k - $325k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • Exceptional analytical skills, including synthesizing data into insights and developing complex financial operating models.
  • Problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities to develop frameworks for assessing profitability and capital efficiency.
  • Attention to detail and patience in identifying the source of truth across complex financial and legal frameworks.
  • Ability to work cross-functionally and communicate complex financial information to non-finance audiences.
  • Proven track record of partnering with technical teams to drive financial optimization initiatives.
  • Experience adapting to a fast-paced, dynamic environment and collaborating effectively.
  • Bias toward action, strong work ethic, and experience driving operational outcomes under tight timelines.
  • Relationship building, business judgment, process management, and communication skills.
  • Passion for Anthropic's mission to build safe, transformative AI systems and for integrating AI tools to streamline manual finance workflows.
  • Background in network, telecom, or large-scale computing infrastructure, including data centers or cloud service providers.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; a relevant field of study as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
  • 7+ years of experience in strategic finance, infrastructure investment, private equity, growth equity, consulting, or investment banking; the preferred background is telecom, datacenter, or network infrastructure.
  • 3+ years of experience specifically in network infrastructure financial management.
  • Experience working directly with major carriers, colocation providers, or hardware vendors.
  • MBA or another advanced degree in finance, economics, or business.
  • Expertise in connectivity, equipment, or lease economics, contract structures, and pricing models.
  • Experience with capital project or long-lead equipment economics.
  • Proficiency with financial modeling tools and languages, including SQL, Python, and Excel.
  • Experience building a computer, homelab, or home network from scratch.
  • Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position.

Responsibilities

  • Lead finance for network capital expenditures and operating expenses, including budgeting, monthly forecasting, variance analysis, and financial plan maintenance.
  • Build and maintain detailed, data-driven, bottoms-up financial models for network infrastructure, including long-range forecasts, cost-driver analyses, and investment scenario modeling.
  • Develop expertise in connectivity, colocation, and equipment contracts, pricing structures, and cost drivers, and identify optimization opportunities.
  • Serve as the subject matter expert and source of truth for Anthropic’s network buildout and plan of record.
  • Support implementation and management of financial planning and procurement tools, ensuring models and processes scale with the organization.
  • Analyze build, lease, and service options for network capacity, including return on investment across term, route, and ownership, and translate findings into an actionable capacity-planning and deployment framework.
  • Partner with network engineering teams to understand how capacity, lead times, and site readiness scale, and translate those technical dynamics into financial frameworks.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in strategic finance, infrastructure investment, private equity, growth equity, consulting, or investment banking, preferably with telecom, datacenter, or network infrastructure experience.
  • Experience working directly with major carriers, colocation providers, or hardware vendors.
  • An MBA or other advanced degree in finance, economics, or business.
  • Expertise in connectivity, equipment, or lease economics, contract structures, and pricing models.
  • Experience with capital project or long-lead equipment economics.
  • Proficiency with SQL, Python, and Excel for financial modeling.
  • Experience building a computer, homelab, or home network from scratch.

About the Company

Anthropic

Builds Claude AI models with a focus on safety

Anthropic builds the Claude family of AI models and sells them to businesses, software developers, and consumers, with research on making AI safe and understandable at the center of its work. In 2024 it introduced the Model Context Protocol, an open standard for connecting AI assistants to outside apps and data that OpenAI and Google adopted the next year. People use the Claude app to write and analyze files, programmers hand coding tasks to Claude Code, and companies build Claude into their own products through its API. Anthropic earns money from subscriptions, business plans, and usage-based API fees. Siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei founded Anthropic in 2021 with other former OpenAI employees, and it is based in San Francisco.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
N/A
Total funding
$243.8B
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
2021

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