Director, Technical Accounting - M&A

The role

You will support the company's accounting for mergers, acquisitions, strategic investments, and other complex capital transactions. You will partner with cross-functional teams to ensure deal economics are accurately reflected under US GAAP.

What you will do

• Execute technical accounting for business combinations, asset acquisitions, joint ventures, and related financing/equity structures
• Partner with and influence Corporate Dev to steer deal structures
• Perform accounting due diligence on prospective transactions
• Execute end-to-end purchase accounting
• Execute post-close integration accounting
• Assess and monitor consolidation and investment classification
• Manage third-party valuation specialists
• Author and defend technical accounting policies and memoranda
• Partner with Tax, Treasury, and Legal on deal structuring and financing instruments
• Prepare and review transaction-related disclosures for quarterly and annual filings

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience
• 4+ years owning complex M&A and strategic investment accounting transactions end-to-end
• Hold an active CPA license
• Significant Big 4 experience in a National Office, Transaction/Deal Advisory, or Capital Markets/Accounting Advisory group
• In-house experience at a high-growth or public technology company
• Contributed to multiple closed acquisitions and minority/strategic investments, including at least one transaction of meaningful scale or complexity
• Deep command of US GAAP for business combinations, consolidation, equity method, and fair value measurement
• Fluent in valuation concepts
• Operated within a deal-accounting or investments-accounting function
• Proficient with accounting systems (Workday preferred), consolidation tools, and advanced Excel/modeling
• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Field of study relevant to the role

Nice to have

• Deep, practitioner-level expertise in ASC 805
• Deep, practitioner-level expertise in ASC 810, 323, 321
• Deep, practitioner-level expertise in ASC 820, 815, 825, 350, 360
• Led accounting for carve-outs, divestitures, spin-offs, or legal-entity rationalizations
• Prepared or reviewed pro forma financial information and registration-statement disclosures
• Experience with novel AI/technology deal structures

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation and parental leave
• Flexible working hours
• Office space

Before you apply

• We do sponsor visas

About the company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. Its mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.