Director, Technical Accounting - M&A

Location: San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA; hybrid policy requiring staff to be in one of the offices at least 25% of the time, with some roles requiring more office presence.

Annual salary: $230,000–$300,000 USD.

Company

Anthropic builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems intended to be safe and beneficial for users and society.

What you will do

• Execute technical accounting for business combinations, asset acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic investments, and related financing and equity structures.
• Partner with Corporate Development, Legal, Tax, Treasury, FP&A, and leadership on transaction structuring, due diligence, consolidation outcomes, and financial statement impacts.
• Lead purchase accounting, including acquirer and acquisition-date identification, consideration measurement, acquired assets and liabilities, goodwill, replacement awards, and contingent consideration.
• Manage post-close integration accounting, including policy alignment, system and ledger onboarding, working capital true-ups, earn-out remeasurement, and push-down considerations.
• Assess consolidation and investment classification, including VIE and primary-beneficiary analyses, equity method, measurement alternative, fair value through earnings, impairment, and observable-price-change reviews.
• Manage valuation specialists, author technical accounting memoranda, prepare transaction disclosures and pro forma information, monitor standard-setting and SEC developments, and present conclusions to stakeholders.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 4+ years owning complex M&A and strategic investment accounting transactions end-to-end.
• Active CPA license.
• Significant Big 4 experience, ideally in a National Office, Transaction/Deal Advisory, or Capital Markets/Accounting Advisory group, combined with in-house experience at a high-growth or public technology company.
• Experience with multiple closed acquisitions and minority or 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, with positions that withstand auditor and regulator scrutiny.
• Fluency in valuation concepts and ability to direct and challenge third-party specialists on PPA, contingent consideration, and impairment models.
• Experience operating within a deal-accounting or investments-accounting function and contributing to playbook and controls design.
• Effective communication with Corporate Development and Legal on structuring trade-offs, plus exceptional written and verbal communication for explaining complex deal accounting.
• Hands-on technical execution in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment; proficiency with accounting systems, Workday preferred, consolidation tools, and advanced Excel/modeling.
• Curiosity about and ability to quickly adopt AI tools, including Claude and Claude for Finance.
• Minimum education: bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience in a relevant field.

Nice to have

• Practitioner-level expertise in ASC 805, ASC 810, ASC 323, ASC 321, ASC 820, ASC 815, ASC 825, ASC 350, or ASC 360, including business combinations, asset acquisitions, consolidation, investment classification, fair value, goodwill, intangibles, impairment testing, and IPR&D.
• Experience leading accounting for carve-outs, divestitures, spin-offs, or legal-entity rationalizations and establishing SOX-compliant controls over complex transactions.
• Experience preparing or reviewing pro forma financial information and registration-statement disclosures, including Article 11 of Regulation S-X, S-X Rule 3-05/1-02(w) significance testing, and S-1 processes.
• Experience with novel AI and technology deal structures, including acqui-hires, IP or license-heavy transactions, data and compute arrangements, revenue-share partnerships, and strategic investor rights.
• Experience leveraging AI to accelerate diligence, memorandum drafting, and close activities.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment spanning research, engineering, policy, finance, and business leadership.
• Flexible working hours and a hybrid office policy.
• Competitive compensation, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation, and parental leave.
• Visa sponsorship may be available; Anthropic makes reasonable efforts to support visas and works with an immigration lawyer.
• Office-based collaboration in San Francisco or Seattle.

Hiring process

• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis with no stated deadline.
• Candidates should follow Anthropic’s policy regarding AI usage in the application process.