Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
About the role
We are seeking a Senior Manager, Technical Accounting – M&A and Investments to join our Finance team at Anthropic. In this role, you will support the company's accounting for mergers, acquisitions, strategic investments, and other complex capital transactions. You will report to the Senior Director, Technical Accounting – M&A and Investments.
What they're looking for
- Execute technical accounting for business combinations, asset acquisitions, joint ventures, and related financing/equity structures
- Partner with and influence Corporate Dev to steer deal structures toward preferred terms and outcomes
- Perform accounting due diligence on prospective transactions, advising Corporate Development and leadership on GAAP, control, and earnings implications before terms are finalized
- Execute post-close integration accounting — conforming accounting policies, system/ledger onboarding, working capital true-ups, earn-out remeasurement, and push-down considerations
- Manage third-party valuation specialists, review PPA, intangible asset valuations, contingent consideration fair values, and impairment analyses
- Author and defend technical accounting policies & memoranda, partner closely with external auditors on M&A, investment, and consolidation matters
More about this role
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 seeking a Senior Manager, Technical Accounting – M&A and Investments to join our Finance team at Anthropic. In this role, you will support the company's accounting for mergers, acquisitions, strategic investments, and other complex capital transactions. You will report to the Senior Director, Technical Accounting – M&A and Investments.
As Anthropic continues to scale rapidly and deploy capital into acquisitions, strategic investments, joint ventures, and novel commercial structures, you will be a key technical resource on structuring alternatives, consolidation outcomes, and financial statement impact. You will partner closely with Corporate Development, Legal, Tax, Treasury, FP&A, and leadership to ensure that deal economics are accurately reflected under US GAAP and that positions are defensible to external auditors, valuation specialists, and future...
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