Finance & Strategy, Datacenter FP&A

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>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.</p></div><h2><strong>About the role</strong></h2> <p>We are seeking a Strategic Finance Lead to own the operating P&amp;L for Anthropic's datacenter infrastructure partnerships. This role will be the finance owner for every site covering lease, power and operations.</p> <p>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.</p> <h2><strong>Key responsibilities:</strong></h2> <p><strong><em>Datacenter Financial Planning &amp; Analysis</em></strong></p> <ul> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Own FP&amp;A for all live-site datacenter operating costs including lease/rent, power, hardware ops, facility/DC ops, physical security, warehousing, and operator fees</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Build and maintain per-site cost forecasts; refresh on a cadence that supports monthly reviews and board reporting</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Run budget-vs-actual on datacenter developer spend and site build budgets, tracking expected eventual spend against approved commitments</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Own the in-year power cost model across pass-through and direct costs</li> <li class="whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Reconcile operating partner invoices to forecast and lead