Finance Systems Analyst, Tax

Location: San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA; hybrid policy requiring staff to be in an office at least 25% of the time

Annual salary: $205,000–$270,000 USD

Company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation developing reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems intended to be safe and beneficial.

What you will do

• Run the tax systems request queue from intake and triage through resolution or escalation.
• Configure and document product taxability, registrations, exemptions, and refund rules, and build completeness checks and runbooks.
• Design and execute UAT for tax and billing changes, maintain evidence, and provide tax sign-off before releases.
• Write SQL reconciliations and tie-outs, investigate discrepancies, and answer tax data questions.
• Prepare ITGC evidence, run recurring SOX and IPE control evidence cycles, support auditor walkthroughs, and track remediation.
• Partner with Billing Engineering, Accounting, Product, vendors, auditors, and Tax & Treasury; use Claude and other AI tools to build reliable queries, tools, and documentation with appropriate checks.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience configuring or supporting an enterprise tax engine, tax provision tool, billing system, or ERP in a tax-facing role.
• Ability to read and write SQL to build deterministic reconciliations and trace discrepancies to their source independently.
• Ability to translate tax requirements into configuration, test cases, and clear engineering requests.
• Experience owning or participating in finance systems UAT from test design through execution and evidence.
• Understanding of SOX, ITGC, and IPE controls; ability to produce audit-acceptable evidence and work with external advisors and auditors.
• Cross-functional experience and clear communication with non-technical colleagues, vendors, auditors, and engineers.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with evolving requirements, prioritizing effectively, and learning unfamiliar tax areas.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and/or experience in a field relevant to the role.
• Minimum years of experience will correlate with the internal job level requirements.

Nice to have

• 7+ years of experience in tax operations, tax technology, or finance systems, with practical knowledge of indirect and/or direct tax.
• Experience across indirect and direct tax, including tax provision tooling, income tax compliance, R&D credit tools, or transfer pricing data.
• Python and data warehouse experience.
• Experience configuring purchasing-side ERP tax processes from purchase orders through supplier invoices.
• Experience with marketplace facilitator rules, usage-based billing, e-invoicing, or real-time tax reporting outside the US.
• Experience establishing recurring controls evidence cycles or using Claude and other AI tools for finance or tax work with reviewable checks.
• Tax experience at a large or high-growth technology company, such as a multinational SaaS business.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work across Tax Technology, Finance Systems, Billing Engineering, Accounting, Product, auditors, and vendors.
• Flexible working hours and a location-based hybrid policy.
• Competitive compensation, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, and an office environment for collaboration.
• Visa sponsorship is available, subject to role and candidate eligibility; immigration lawyer support is provided.
• Anthropic is a high-growth environment where the role is an early hire on a small team and may expand into end-to-end ownership of a tax area, tool, product, or jurisdiction.

Hiring process

• Follow Anthropic’s candidate AI-usage guidance during the application process.
• For legitimate recruiting communications, use only @anthropic.com contacts or clearly identified vetted recruiting agencies; recruiters will not request money, fees, or banking information before the first day.