G&A Opex Finance Business Partner

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.

About the role

Our Corporate Finance & Strategy team serves as a strategic partner to Anthropic's leadership, driving data-informed decisions that shape our company's future. We are seeking a Finance & Strategy - G&A Opex Finance Business Partner to support Executive Budget Owners across our G&A departments (Finance, People, Legal, Policy, and Workplace). In this high-impact role, you'll optimize financial decision-making, enhance forecasting accuracy, and lead strategic initiatives that directly influence our operational excellence. As part of our lean team, your contributions will be immediately visible and essential to Anthropic's continued growth.

Responsibilities

Business Partnership & Strategic Support

• Serve as the lead finance business partner to Executive Budget Owners across G&A functions (Finance, People, Legal, Policy, Workplace, etc), providing strategic financial guidance and thought partnership
• Own the consolidated G&A P&L, ensuring comprehensive visibility and control over operational expenses as Anthropic scales
• Provide data-driven insights and recommendations to empower leaders in making informed business decisions
• Partner with department heads to establish and track performance against operational and financial objectives
• Proactively identify opportunities for process improvements, cost optimization, and operational efficiencies across G&A functions

Financial Planning & Analysis

• Lead monthly forecast cycle for G&A functions - analyze financial and operational results, identify key trends, and communicate risks and opportunities to influence business outcomes
• Own the G&A budgeting and forecasting process, ensuring accurate submissions and alignment with company objectives
• Produce comprehensive Forecast vs Actuals (FvA) analyses, investigating variances to improve forecast accuracy and reliability
• Develop and maintain G&A KPIs and metrics to drive performance and accountability
• Create scenario models to support critical decisions around real estate, headcount planning, and other strategic initiatives
• Partner with Workplace team to establish robust financial review processes for facilities costs and ensure adherence to accounting policies
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to surface actionable insights for G&A leadership

Process Improvement & Systems Enhancement

• Partner with Finance Systems team to enhance and automate forecasting models, reducing manual processes and improving accuracy
• Drive standardization of G&A cost management practices across the organization
• Develop and refine cost drivers and allocation methodologies in our planning tools
• Build scalable reporting infrastructure and dashboards to track key operational metrics
• Work with cross-functional teams to implement and track cost savings initiatives
• Ensure compliance with financial policies and provide guidance to maximize operational efficiency
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives to streamline recurring financial processes

Strategic Projects

• Drive strategic analyses and special projects for the CFO and executive team
• Support ad-hoc requests and evolving business priorities with agility and precision
• Contribute to company-wide initiatives that span beyond traditional G&A boundaries

You may be a good fit if you have:

• 5+ years of relevant experience in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, private equity, or management consulting
• Minimum 2 years of FP&A experience with demonstrated G&A business partnership expertise
• Strong financial modeling and analytical capabilities with meticulous attention to detail
• Experience with financial planning systems (Pigment in particular)
• Ability to manage large volumes of data while maintaining strategic perspective
• Exceptional communication skills - ability to distill complex analyses into clear, actionable recommendations for diverse audiences
• Proven track record of building trusted relationships with operational leaders and influencing decision-making
• Natural problem-solver who thrives in ambiguous situations and creates solutions where standard processes don't exist
• Experience driving change and continuous improvement in fast-paced, transformational environments
• Strong project management skills with ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
• Self-starter mentality with high degree of flexibility and collaborative approach
• Working knowledge of SQL and data visualization tools
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Mathematics, or related field

Strong candidates may have:

• Experience specific to real estate / workplace planning
• Background in large international technology companies, particularly high-growth SaaS or AI/ML organizations
• Track record of AI-driven process automation and systems implementation
• MBA or relevant advanced degree
• Deep interest in and alignment with Anthropic's mission

What makes this role unique at Anthropic:

• Direct impact on strategic decisions at a company working on frontier AI systems
• Opportunity to build financial infrastructure during a critical growth phase
• Collaboration with world-class researchers, engineers, and operational leaders
• Role in ensuring efficient resource allocation toward our mission of building safe, beneficial AI

The expected salary range for this position is:

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

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.

Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, 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.

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.