Head of Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
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.
We are looking for a strategic and analytical Head of Corporate FP&A to partner with our leadership team during a period of rapid growth. In this role, you will lead financial planning processes, develop and publish financial reporting, and drive data-driven decision making across the organization. As we scale our business, you will continue to build a world-class FP&A function and processes to support our growth. If you are looking for an opportunity to make a significant impact on the financial trajectory of a highly innovative AI company, come join us in our mission to build cutting-edge, safe artificial intelligence.
Responsibilities:
- Own annual planning, quarterly forecasting, and monthly management reporting of financial performance
- Partner with senior leaders to develop financial targets, key metrics, and detailed business plans
- Lead monthly business reviews with executives to discuss results, identify risks and opportunities, and drive accountability
- Develop business narrative and variance analysis for internal and external stakeholders
- Build insightful management reporting, dashboards, and metrics to track performance and inform decision making
- Lead, manage, and scale an outstanding Corporate FP&A team
- Implement financial systems and drive process improvements to scale FP&A
- Collaborate with team members across Finance to ensure accurate, timely financial close and reporting
You may be a good fit if you:
- Have 10+ years of FP&A experience, including 5+ years in leadership roles
- Have experience leading an FP&A function through both rapid growth and operating at scale; able to provide the context and expertise needed to guide our team through this critical stage
- Demonstrate strong leadership and mentorship skills to develop and manage a high-performing team
- Possess exceptional problem-solving and critical thinking abilities to navigate complex financial challenges
- Possess strong financial modeling and analytical skills; highly proficient in Excel / Google Sheets
- Are adept at communicating complex financial information to non-finance audiences
- Have experience with multi-dimensional finance and business planning tools (e.g., Anaplan, Pigment)
- Have extensive experience with headcount planning, international expansion, and accurate cost modeling
- Are fluent at translating between GAAP and non-GAAP financial metrics, and quantifying the impact of non-financial metrics
- Thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment and adapt well to change
- Are passionate about Anthropic's mission to build safe, transformative AI systems
- Have excellent business judgment, integrity, and a strong work ethic
Strong candidates may also:
- Bring experience in SaaS, AI/ML, and usage-based business models
- Hold a professional accounting certification, MBA or other relevant advanced degree (e.g., finance, data science, statistics)
- Possess strong SQL and data visualization (e.g., Looker, Tableau) skills
The expected salary range for this position is:
Logistics
Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
US visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate; operations roles are especially difficult to support. But if we make you an offer, we will make every effort to get you into the United States, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy, so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important, and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.
Compensation and Benefits*
Anthropic’s compensation package consists of three elements: salary, equity, and benefits. We are committed to pay fairness and aim for these three elements collectively to be highly competitive with market rates.
Equity - For eligible roles, equity will be a major component of the total compensation. We aim to offer higher-than-average equity compensation for a company of our size, and communicate equity amounts at the time of offer issuance.
US Benefits - The following benefits are for our US-based employees:
- Optional equity donation matching.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and all your dependents.
- 401(k) plan with 4% matching.
- 22 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more!
- Stipends for education, home office improvements, commuting, and wellness.
- Fertility benefits via Carrot.
- Daily lunches and snacks in our office.
- Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area.
UK Benefits - The following benefits are for our UK-based employees:
- Optional equity donation matching.
- Private health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
- Pension contribution (matching 4% of your salary).
- 21 weeks of paid parental leave.
- Unlimited PTO – most staff take between 4-6 weeks each year, sometimes more!
- Health cash plan.
- Life insurance and income protection.
- Daily lunches and snacks in our office.
* This compensation and benefits information is based on Anthropic’s good faith estimate for this position as of the date of publication and may be modified in the future. Employees based outside of the UK or US will receive a different benefits package. The level of pay within the range will depend on a variety of job-related factors, including where you place on our internal performance ladders, which is based on factors including past work experience, relevant education, and performance on our interviews or in a work trial.
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.
Come work with us!
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.