Finance Operations • Lead

Who you are

You have extensive experience in finance and program management, ideally with a background in leading strategic initiatives within a corporate environment. Your ability to manage relationships with executive leadership and external partners is exceptional, and you thrive in complex, multi-quarter programs that require meticulous planning and execution. You possess strong analytical skills and can translate strategic visions into actionable workstreams with clear ownership and success metrics. Your expertise in change management allows you to navigate challenges effectively, ensuring alignment across various teams and stakeholders.

You are a proactive problem solver, adept at identifying critical path dependencies and developing mitigation strategies for complex program challenges. Your communication skills are top-notch, enabling you to provide clear visibility into program status, risks, and decision requirements to executive leadership. You are also familiar with establishing program management best practices that can scale across the finance function, ensuring that initiatives are executed efficiently and effectively.

Desirable

Experience in the AI or technology sector is a plus, as is familiarity with financial regulations and compliance. You may have a background in consulting or have worked with external vendors and partners, enhancing your ability to manage relationships and drive successful outcomes. A strong understanding of financial metrics and performance indicators will further bolster your effectiveness in this role.

What you'll do

In this role, you will lead end-to-end program management for strategic finance initiatives at Anthropic. You will establish and lead steering committees with executive leadership, providing them with clear visibility into program status, risks, dependencies, and decision requirements. Your role will involve driving cross-functional alignment on requirements gathering and timelines for execution, ensuring that all stakeholders are on the same page and that initiatives are executed smoothly.

You will manage relationships with external consultants, partners, and vendors, leveraging these connections to enhance the effectiveness of finance initiatives. Your ability to identify and resolve critical path dependencies will be crucial, as will your skill in escalating risks proactively and developing mitigation strategies for complex program challenges. You will translate the strategic vision from finance leadership into actionable workstreams, ensuring that each initiative has clear ownership, milestones, and success metrics.

Additionally, you will establish program management best practices, templates, and frameworks that can scale across the finance function, contributing to the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the team. Your leadership will help build the foundation for a world-class finance function at one of the most innovative AI companies.

What we offer

At Anthropic, we offer competitive compensation and benefits, including optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, and flexible working hours. You will have the opportunity to work in a collaborative office space with a team of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders. We are dedicated to creating reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for our users and society as a whole. Join us in our mission to build beneficial AI systems and make a positive impact on the world.