Finance & Strategy, Datacenter 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 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.

• 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 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 toward 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.
• Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
• Minimum years of experience:
  Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position.
• Location‑based hybrid policy:
  Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. Some roles may require more time in our offices.
• Visa sponsorship:
  We sponsor visas where possible and retain an immigration lawyer to assist with the process.