Financial Data and Controls Lead, Billing Platform

The role

You will own billing accuracy, reconciliation, and financial controls for the Billing Platform. You will lead a working group of reconciliation and controls owners to ensure systems meet SOX requirements.

What you will do

• Own reconciliation and accuracy checks for critical billing data across product platforms and third-party providers
• Design and run detective controls to catch billing errors
• Partner with billing engineering teams to automate verifiers
• Review billing changes for financial impact and SOX or ITAC compliance
• Own end-to-end test strategy and audit evidence for billing changes
• Triage billing errors and prioritize fixes with owning teams
• Define and maintain data contracts between billing and finance systems
• Lead a working group of reconciliation and controls owners through influence
• Translate product and pricing roadmaps into financial impact and process updates

Required qualifications

• Experience building or owning a financial ledger, billing reconciliation, or cash reconciliation system end to end
• Hands-on SQL skills
• Accounting domain knowledge (order to cash, month-end close, and materiality)
• Experience working with SOX and Internal Audit teams on IT application controls, detective controls, transaction monitoring, functional test evidence, and auditor walkthroughs
• Experience defining data contracts between billing or product systems and finance systems
• Track record of driving work across Engineering, Finance, Accounting, and Audit without direct authority
• Ability to explain technical issues to Finance and auditors and financial risk to engineers
• Interest in AI and a commitment to Anthropic's mission
• 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

• Background as a backend, data, or analytics engineer who built a financial ledger or cash reconciliation system from scratch
• Experience running these systems under public company reporting requirements
• Experience with usage-based or consumption billing
• Experience with multi-party billing, such as marketplaces, or app stores
• Experience turning manual checks into automated verifiers with engineering teams
• Experience remediating a control deficiency, or standing up a controls program while the underlying systems were changing
• A track record of using Claude or other AI tools to automate reconciliation, testing, or evidence collection
• Experience with billing and finance tools such as Stripe, Metronome, Zuora, NetSuite, or Workday Financials
• Python for data analysis or automation

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.