The Strategic Finance Lead at Anthropic will provide finance leadership for the company’s accelerator investments. The role partners with compute teams to optimize compute spend and drive strategic decision-making through financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and analysis of cloud infrastructure economics. Responsibilities include building detailed financial models, managing planning tools, and translating technical dynamics into actionable financial frameworks.
Strategic Finance Lead en Anthropic
Híbrido - San Francisco, CA, United States
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USD 190,000 - 240,000
Requirements
Skills
- Exceptional analytical skills with an ability to synthesize data into compelling insights and develop complex financial operating models
- Extraordinary problem-solving and critical thinking abilities to develop new frameworks for assessing profitability and capital efficiency
- Attention to detail and patience for getting to the source of truth on complex and interconnected underlying financial and legal frameworks
- Comfort working cross-functionally and adept at communicating complex financial information to non-finance audiences
- Proven track record of partnering with technical teams to drive financial optimization initiatives
- Experience driving operational outcomes under tight timelines
- Strong relationship building, business judgment, process management, and communication skills
- Background in AI, ML, or high-performance, large-scale computing infrastructure, including data centers, cloud service providers
- 7+ years of experience in strategic finance, infrastructure investment, private equity, growth equity, consulting, or investment banking
- 3+ years of experience specifically in cloud infrastructure financial management
- Experience working directly with major cloud service providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- MBA or other advanced degree in finance, economics, or business
- Deep expertise in cloud service provider economics, contract structures, and pricing models
- Experience with chip architecture economics and optimization strategies
- Proficiency with financial modeling tools and languages (SQL, Python, Excel)
Responsibilities
- Finance lead for cloud accelerator compute spend, including budgeting, monthly forecasting, variance analysis, and financial plan maintenance
- Build and maintain detailed bottoms-up data-driven financial models for accelerator infrastructure, including long-range forecasts, cost driver analyses, and investment scenario modeling
- Develop deep expertise in compute contracts, pricing structures, and cost drivers, and surface optimization opportunities across infrastructure
- Serve as subject matter expert for Anthropic’s overall compute capacity plan, owning source of truth and plan of record
- Support the implementation and management of financial planning tools (e.g., Pigment), ensuring models and processes scale with the organization
- Analyze the economics of model training and research compute, including ROI across different dimensions such as training run sizes, chip types, data, etc., and distill into actionable framework for capacity planning and deployment
- Partner closely with engineering and research teams to understand how training and reinforcement learning processes scale, and translate those technical dynamics into financial frameworks
Technologies
PigmentSQLPythonExcel
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