Anthropic
Finance Systems Analyst, Tax
San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA. Posted 3 months ago
The role
You will manage the day-to-day running of tax systems, including triaging requests, configuring tax settings, and testing changes. You will act as a bridge between technical teams and the business by translating tax requirements into system configurations and data analysis.
What you will do
- Own the queue of tax systems requests from billing support and the tax team
- Make and document tax configuration changes for products and registrations
- Design and run user acceptance testing for tax and billing changes
- Write SQL against the data warehouse to build reconciliations and investigate discrepancies
- Prepare ITGC evidence and run the recurring SOX and IPE evidence cycle
- Act as the tax systems point of contact for Billing Engineering, Accounting and Product
- Use Claude and other AI tools to build queries, tools and documentation
Required qualifications
- Hands-on experience configuring or supporting an enterprise tax engine, tax provision tooling, or a billing or ERP system in a tax-facing role
- Can read and write SQL well enough to test and build deterministic reconciliations and trace a discrepancy to its source without help
- Skilled at translating tax requirements into configuration, test cases and clear requests for engineering teams
- Have owned or been involved in user acceptance testing on a finance systems project
- Understand SOX, ITGC and IPE controls
- Have worked with external advisors and auditors
- Have cross-functional experience
- Communicate clearly with non-technical colleagues
- Work directly with vendors, auditors and engineers without an intermediary
- Comfortable working in a fast paced, high growth environment
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
- Field of study relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Nice to have
- 7+ years of experience in tax operations, tax technology or finance systems
- Deep, practical knowledge of indirect and/or direct tax
- Experience across both indirect and direct tax
- Python and data warehouse experience
- Experience with tax setup on the purchasing side of an ERP
- Experience with marketplace facilitator rules or usage-based billing
- Familiarity with e-invoicing and real-time tax reporting requirements outside the US
- Experience standing up a recurring controls evidence cycle
- A track record of using Claude or other AI tools to speed up finance or tax work
- Tax experience at a large or high growth technology company
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.