Senior Business Systems Analyst, Finance Systems (Assets & Lease Management) at Anthropic

On-site - San Francisco, CA

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Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, dedicated to building safe and beneficial AI systems. The Senior Business Systems Analyst, Finance Systems (Assets & Lease Management) role focuses on leading the design and configuration of Workday Business Assets and Lease Management, ensuring accurate capitalization, depreciation, and lease accounting across the organization’s rapidly growing asset base.

Requirements

Skills

  • 8+ years of experience in finance systems, ERP implementation, or business systems analysis roles, with at least 5 years of hands‑on Workday Financials (including Business Assets), lease management, inventory or asset management software
  • Deep expertise in Workday Business Assets configuration, including asset books, depreciation methods, capitalization thresholds, CIP tracking, mass asset transactions, transfers, and disposals
  • Hands‑on experience with lease accounting under ASC 842 in major lease management platforms such as CoStar, FinQuery/LeaseQuery, or Visual Lease
  • Strong understanding of fixed asset accounting processes, including capitalization policies, useful life determination, impairment assessment, and asset‑level reconciliation to the general ledger, as well as SOX and compliance requirements
  • Experience managing high‑value technology infrastructure assets such as data centers, compute hardware, and networking equipment
  • Skill at translating complex business requirements into technical solutions and bridging finance stakeholders with technical implementation teams
  • Experience with full ERP implementation lifecycles, including requirements gathering, configuration, testing, data migration, cutover planning, and hypercare
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with finance leadership, accounting teams, and technical partners
  • Comfortable working in fast‑paced, high‑growth environments with evolving requirements and tight timelines

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the internal functional lead for Workday Business Assets, owning configuration of asset books, asset classes, useful lives, depreciation profiles, capitalization rules, and CIP tracking; drive design decisions, validate configurations, and ensure business requirements are met
  • Own end‑to‑end lease administration and lease accounting across Workday and dedicated lease management platforms for both real estate and infrastructure/compute leases, including lease classification, right‑of‑use assets and lease liabilities, amortization schedules, modifications and remeasurements, and ASC 842 disclosure reporting
  • Partner with Compute, Data Infrastructure, Procurement, Accounting, and other key stakeholders to manage high‑value technology infrastructure assets from procurement through capitalization, transfers, and retirement; design componentization, tagging, and tracking approaches for data center and compute hardware at scale, with asset records structured to meet international regulatory, statutory, and cross‑border compliance requirements
  • Support the broader Workday Financials platform as a secondary focus, ensuring FDM alignment (Worktags, account posting rules, dimensional hierarchies) for asset and lease transactions; partner with consultants on future phase/net new implementations impacting assets and leases
  • Build and maintain asset rollforwards, depreciation forecasts, lease disclosure schedules, and reconciliations; support month‑end and quarter‑end close activities for fixed assets and leases, managing defects and data quality issues as they arise
  • Collaborate with Integrations, Security, and Financials configuration teams to align master data, journals, controls, and performance service level agreements; partner with Real Estate & Workplace, Legal, FP&A, and Tax on the lease pipeline and capital planning
  • Work closely with engineering teams and business stakeholders to drive ongoing expansion and adoption of the Workday platform (e.g., biannual releases), identifying opportunities for process improvement and automation across the asset and lease lifecycle

Technologies

Workday FinancialsWorkday Business AssetsWorkday WQLWorkday Studio/Core ConnectorSQLBigQueryPythonClaude suiteWorkday FDM designPrism AnalyticsAccounting CenterCoStarFinQuery/LeaseQueryVisual Lease

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