Anthropic

3P Revenue Accounting & Reporting

San Francisco, CA | Seattle, WA. Posted 25 days ago

The role

You will own revenue recognition, month-end close, and reporting for Claude sold through cloud service provider channels. You will partner with finance, engineering, and partner teams to turn billing feeds into accurate revenue and lead the automation of manual close processes.

What you will do

  • Lead the revenue close for cloud service provider Marketplace within a listed company timeline.
  • Prepare and review revenue, revenue-share, reserve journal entries, accruals and true-ups.
  • Own balance sheet reconciliations, reserves, and the usage-to-invoice-to-cash bridge.
  • Perform monthly and quarterly flux analysis and prepare flux decks for leadership.
  • Own quarter-end deliverables, including footnote disclosures and presentations.
  • Serve as the primary contact for external auditors.
  • Review the work of accountants and contractors.
  • Own monthly and quarterly 3P revenue reporting for leadership and FP&A.
  • Review partner usage, invoice, disbursement and fraud reports.
  • Apply ASC 606 to 3P arrangements.

Required qualifications

  • Strong ASC 606 knowledge, especially principal-vs-agent, variable consideration, consideration payable to a customer, and consumption-based revenue.
  • Owned a month-end close with tight deadlines and reviewed journal entries, reconciliations and flux analysis.
  • Built revenue reporting from large, imperfect third-party data sets and reconciled it to the general ledger.
  • Managed external partner relationships where you depended on their data.
  • Strong SQL skills (BigQuery or similar).
  • Experience automating close workbooks or reconciliations.
  • Designed or operated SOX controls and supported external audits.
  • Communicate clearly with accounting, finance, business and engineering teams.
  • Thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
  • 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

  • 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 3+ years managing revenue accounting or close teams.
  • A Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA or equivalent (ACA, ACCA).
  • Big 4 audit experience combined with industry experience at a high-growth tech or SaaS company.
  • Experience with cloud marketplace, reseller or channel revenue (AWS Marketplace, Google Cloud Marketplace, Azure Marketplace).
  • Experience with usage-based and subscription revenue models.
  • Hands-on experience with Workday Financials, NetSuite, Numeric, Hex or similar close and reporting tools.
  • Experience with IPO readiness.
  • Experience using AI tools to automate accounting and reporting work.

Benefits

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

Before you apply

  • We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate.

About the company

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

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