Description
About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the role We are seeking a Strategic Finance Lead to own the operating P&L for Anthropic's datacenter infrastructure partnerships. This role will be the finance owner for every site covering lease, power and operations. In this role, you will be a key partner to our infrastructure teams, providing financial expertise and guidance to keep our sites on budget, drive operating costs down, and de-risk our largest infrastructure exposures. You will own the near-term forecast for datacenter spend, run budget-vs-actual on projects, and serve as the primary finance counterpart to our datacenter operating partners. Key responsibilities: Datacenter Financial Planning & Analysis - Own FP&A for all live-site datacenter operating costs including lease/rent, power, hardware ops, facility/DC ops, physical security, warehousing, and operator fees - Build and maintain per-site cost forecasts; refresh on a cadence that supports monthly reviews and board reporting - Run budget-vs-actual on datacenter developer spend and site build budgets, tracking expected eventual spend against approved commitments - Own the in-year power cost model across pass-through and direct costs - Reconcile operating partner invoices to forecast and lead the finance operating cadence with datacenter partners - Partner with Accounting on contract operationalization, lease accounting, and close Strategic Projects - Lead financial analysis for site-level optimization initiatives and operating model decisions - Handle operational finance asks tied to datacenter partners and live sites - Partner with the Datacenter Expansion lead on deal-to-operations handoffs, ensuring budgets set at signing are operationalized at commissioning Minimum qualifications - Experience in strategic finance, infrastructure investment, FP&A, private equity, consulting, or investment banking, preferably with datacenter, energy, real estate, telco, or managed-services infrastructure experience - Owned an infrastructure operating P&L and driven cost-out programs against it - Exceptional analytical skills with an ability to synthesize data into compelling insights and develop complex financial operating models - Comfort being the finance person in the partner/vendor room and partnering with technical operating teams - B