Director Technical Accounting Investments
AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, including the Claude product family and developer platform.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
Funding history
About Anthropic
Anthropic PBC develops frontier AI systems and deploys them through Claude products and the Claude Platform, with a stated focus on safety, interpretability, and steerability.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead technical accounting for strategic investments, partnerships, and related financing instruments from entry through exit. You will oversee portfolio reviews, valuations, reconciliations, disclosures, controls, and technical memoranda. You will also support M&A accounting, advise on deal structures, and present accounting conclusions to stakeholders.
Requirements
- Significant Big Four experience and in-house technology-company accounting experience
- Experience leading complex valuations for investments, warrants, and Level 3 instruments
- Experience owning accounting for minority or strategic investment portfolios
- Deep knowledge of US GAAP for equity investments, equity method, consolidation, VIEs, fair value, and business combinations
- Valuation knowledge for private-company fair value, warrants, impairment, and purchase-price allocation
- Experience designing accounting playbooks and controls
- Advanced Excel and accounting-system proficiency
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, or experience
Responsibilities
- Execute technical accounting for strategic investments, joint ventures, partnership structures, and financing instruments
- Review investment structures, term sheets, and deal documents before signing
- Own entry accounting, classification, consolidation analysis, and initial measurement memoranda
- Run quarterly portfolio reviews and account for follow-on investments, conversions, down rounds, and exits
- Manage investment rollforwards, general-ledger reconciliations, and portfolio reporting
- Manage third-party valuation specialists and review fair value and impairment analyses
- Support M&A accounting due diligence, purchase accounting, and measurement-period adjustments
- Author and defend technical accounting policies and memoranda
- Build scalable investment-accounting processes, controls, templates, and checklists
- Prepare and review investment and transaction disclosures
- Monitor accounting-standard and SEC developments
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation
- Parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Visa sponsorship support