Director, Infrastructure Lease Accounting

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.

Anthropic is seeking a Director, Infrastructure Lease Accounting to lead technical accounting for our most complex infrastructure and energy arrangements — the data center leases and related structures underpinning our recently significant investment in American computing infrastructure. As we continue our rapid growth, you will ensure the financial statement accuracy of the most technically complex contracts we enter into.

This is an opportunity to be at the heart of one of the fastest-scaling companies in the industry, and to shape how Anthropic accounts for the highest-stakes arrangements underpinning our compute and energy portfolio.

You will serve as the technical accounting subject matter expert for arrangements spanning data center leases (ASC 842), and counter party or joint-venture structures (ASC 810 VIE analysis). You'll work closely with Real Estate, Legal, Finance, and external auditors to ensure accounting implications are understood before commitments are made.

Serve as the technical accounting subject matter expert for Anthropic's most complex infrastructure arrangements, leading classification, measurement, and subsequent accounting judgments

Apply ASC 842 to complex lease arrangements, including lease identification, modifications, reassessments, and embedded leases within compute, colocation, and data center contracts

Apply ASC 810 to counter party and joint-venture structures, including variable interest entity (VIE) analysis for special purpose entities

Apply ASC 815 to energy and infrastructure arrangements, including consideration of embedded derivatives

Lead technical accounting analysis and memo preparation for new arrangements, ensuring positions are well-reasoned, supported, and auditor‑ready

Partner with Real Estate, Legal, and Finance teams during contract negotiation and execution to ensure accounting implications are understood before commitments are made

Serve as a trusted finance partner to non‑finance stakeholders — explaining the financial statement impact of their decisions in clear, simple terms they can act on

Serve as a key point of contact with external auditors on technical accounting matters within your portfolio

Mentor accounting professionals across the Infrastructure Accounting team on technical accounting matters

Drive process improvements and automation, including leveraging AI tooling, to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of technical accounting work

• Have 12+ years of progressive experience in accounting, with meaningful time in a technical accounting role

Hold a Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA required

Possess strong technical accounting knowledge of ASC 842 (leases), ASC 810 (consolidation, including VIE analysis), and ASC 815 (derivatives and hedging), applied to real arrangements

Have a track record of authoring and defending technical accounting memos on complex, judgment‑intensive arrangements

Demonstrate strong analytical abilities and comfort working with large, complex contracts and datasets

Have a track record of improving scalable technical accounting processes in fast‑moving environments

Are adept at translating technical accounting concepts into financial implications for non‑finance stakeholders

Communicate clearly and influence effectively across cross‑functional partners — Real Estate, Legal, Finance, and Procurement

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