Finance & Strategy, Datacenter FP&A

About the role

We are seeking a Strategic Finance Lead to own the operating P&L for Anthropic's datacenter infrastructure partnerships. This role will be the finance owner for every site covering lease, power and operations. In this role, you will be a key partner to our infrastructure teams, providing financial expertise and guidance to keep our sites on budget, drive operating costs down, and de‑risk our largest infrastructure exposures.

You will own the near‑term forecast for datacenter spend, run budget‑vs‑actual on projects, and serve as the primary finance counterpart to our datacenter operating partners.

• Datacenter Financial Planning & Analysis.
• Own FP&A for all live‑site datacenter operating costs including lease/rent, power, hardware ops, facility/DC ops, physical security, warehousing, and operator fees.
• Build and maintain per‑site cost forecasts; refresh on a cadence that supports monthly reviews and board reporting.
• Run budget‑vs‑actual on datacenter developer spend and site build budgets, tracking expected eventual spend against approved commitments.
• Own the in‑year power cost model across pass‑through and direct costs.
• Reconcile operating partner invoices to forecast and lead the finance operating cadence with datacenter partners.
• Partner with Accounting on contract operationalization, lease accounting, and close.
• Lead strategic projects by providing financial analysis for site‑level optimization initiatives and operating model decisions.
• Handle operational finance asks tied to datacenter partners and live sites.
• Partner with the Datacenter Expansion lead on deal‑to‑operations handoffs, ensuring budgets set at signing are operationalized at commissioning.

• Experience in strategic finance, infrastructure investment, FP&A, private equity, consulting, or investment banking, preferably with datacenter, energy, real estate, telco, or managed‑services infrastructure experience.
• Owned an infrastructure operating P&L and driven cost‑out programs against it.
• Exceptional analytical skills with an ability to synthesize data into compelling insights and develop complex financial operating models.
• Comfort being the finance person in the partner/vendor room and partnering with technical operating teams.
• Bias towards action, strong work ethic, and experience driving operational outcomes under tight timelines.
• Strong relationship building, business judgment, process management, and communication skills.
• Passion for Anthropic's mission to build safe, transformative AI systems.

• 7+ years of experience in strategic finance, infrastructure investment, FP&A, private equity, consulting, or investment banking.
• Direct experience with datacenter, colocation, or power (PPA / energy procurement) economics and contract structures.
• Experience managing finance cadence with a third‑party operator or managed‑services provider.
• Background in AI, ML, or high‑performance, large‑scale computing infrastructure.
• Proficiency with financial modeling tools and languages (SQL, Python, Excel).
• MBA or other advanced degree in finance, economics, or business.

Annual Salary: $240,000 — $325,000 USD.

Minimum education:

Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience. Minimum years of experience: correlates with internal job level requirements. Location‑based hybrid policy: staff are expected to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. Visa sponsorship: we do sponsor visas and will make every reasonable effort to secure a visa for an offered candidate.