# Senior Manager, Corporate Accounting **Company:** [Anthropic](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/anthropic) **Location:** San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA **Role:** Finance & Accounting **Salary:** $230k – $300k/yr **Experience:** 10+ years **Skills:** US GAAP, Sox, ERP, Asc 842, Asc 718, Asc 340-40, Payroll, Fixed Assets, Cash & Investments, Debt, Intangibles, Prepaids, Accruals **Posted:** 2026-06-03 > Lead a team of accountants, review and prepare close materials, set technical standards, and manage a portfolio of accounts. This role involves building accounting infrastructure from scratch in a high-growth environment. ## Job Description ## Key Responsibilities ### Close Operations (~35%) * Own a portfolio of accounts through month-end and quarter-end close — reconciliations, journal entries, and variance commentary * Drive close acceleration by identifying bottlenecks and implementing process changes that reduce cycle time without sacrificing accuracy * Ensure all close deliverables are consistently audit-ready with clear documentation of positions and supporting evidence * Oversee SOX control preparation and execution across owned accounts; review control evidence and own timely remediation of gaps ### Technical Accounting & Policy (~20%) * Write, own, and maintain technical accounting policies and SOPs across the domain — drafting, evolving, and operationalising them as the business changes * Review technical accounting memos prepared by the team; ensure conclusions are well-supported and consistent with US GAAP * Collaborate with Technical Accounting on new or evolving standards and translate guidance into executable procedures * Own external audit responses within the domain; ensure timely delivery of supporting schedules and audit-ready workpapers ### Process Improvement & Automation (~20%) * Identify repetitive, rules-based tasks and build scalable solutions — including leveraging Claude — to automate or replace them * Document workflows and controls in a way that supports knowledge transfer, audit evidence, and system scalability * Contribute to ERP and systems implementations, translating accounting requirements into clear specifications and test criteria ### Team Leadership & Review (~15%) * Coach and develop a team of highly agile performers with timely, specific feedback that raises the technical and operational bar * Hire and onboard accountants as the team grows; set clear expectations and build a culture of precision and continuous improvement * Serve as the first escalation point for complex transactions and accounting judgments across the team’s workstreams ### Cross-Functional Partnership (~10%) * Partner with Finance & Strategy, Tax, People Operations, Procurement, and Facilities to keep accounting aligned with business activity in real time * Translate complex accounting positions into plain language for non-finance stakeholders * Support new entity setup and geographic expansion by establishing accounting processes for new jurisdictions ## Minimum Qualifications * Active CPA licence (required) * Big 4 audit foundation — strong signal of technical depth and audit-readiness standards * Has managed or meaningfully coached junior accountants; ready for direct reports * Experience designing and operating controls in a SOX environment * Hands-on ownership of close: reconciliations, JEs, variance analysis, period-end cut-off * Depth across several of: ASC 842 leases, ASC 718 SBC, ASC 340-40 commissions, payroll, fixed assets / capitalisation, cash & investments, debt, intangibles, prepaids, accruals * Player-coach: moves fluidly between reviewing team work and doing the work — equally comfortable in a recon spreadsheet and a review meeting * Owns policies and SOPs end-to-end: writes them, maintains them, accountable for how the team applies them * Thrives in ambiguity: structures work, reaches defensible conclusions, documents clearly when the answer isn’t obvious * Builder mindset: energised by building from scratch rather than maintaining what exists * Clear POV on how AI tools eliminate low-value accounting work — and wants to put that into practice * Communicates complex positions in plain language to non-accounting partners ## Preferred Qualifications * ~10 years progressive accounting experience combining public company (audit or in-house) with high-growth / startup * Public company accounting experience including exposure to financial reporting cycles * Deep expertise in two or more of: ASC 842, ASC 718, commissions, payroll, or fixed asset accounting * Led or played a significant role in an ERP implementation in a high-growth environment with evolving requirements * Built accounting infrastructure from the ground up: chart of accounts, allocation methodology, close cadence * Familiarity with AI or infrastructure-heavy business models where cost attribution and capitalisation decisions are complex * Managed accounting through significant change: new entity setup, geographic expansion, or business model evolution ## Annual Salary: $230,000—$300,000 USD ## Logistics * Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience ## Similar roles - [Strategic Finance, Partnerships](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/22beef70-5155-4e20-9808-a7b56ee1dca3) - OpenAI - San Francisco, CA - $234k – $260k/yr - [Finance Manager - Hardware Consolidations](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/64f79d65-37ec-4df8-98d0-acaddb0c3eac) - OpenAI - San Francisco, CA - $234k – $260k/yr - [Senior Manager, Cost, Operational, and Revenue Accounting](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/20bec4c8-fab4-4c78-abbb-8edeb91c417c) - Zoox - Foster City, CA - $221k – $266k/yr - [Finance & Strategy, Compute Infrastructure](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/ed969901-d69d-4d6a-a04d-ffd6bda1eeda) - Anthropic - San Francisco, CA - $240k – $325k/yr - [Inventory and Cost Accounting Lead](https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/94d5d9c2-1b72-4159-8318-ec2815791a72) - OpenAI - San Francisco, CA - $216k – $240k/yr **Apply:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/f121335b-f9bc-4338-a781-52c92e071dbc **Canonical:** https://hotfix.jobs/jobs/f121335b-f9bc-4338-a781-52c92e071dbc