Sr. Manager, Cash Application

<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>About the role</h2> <p>Anthropic is scaling rapidly, and the volume of customer payments we receive is scaling with it. We are looking for a Senior Manager, Cash Application to take full ownership of the cash application function within our Invoice to Cash (I2C) organization. Reporting to the Head of Invoice to Cash, you will own the team, the daily operation, the KPI and SLA reporting, and the processes, procedures, and controls for cash application, and you will run the function with minimal oversight. This is a people leadership role with a clear build mandate: the function works today, and your job is to make it run predictably and efficiently at many times today's volume.</p> <p>Cash application is foundational to clean accounts receivable, accurate cash and revenue reporting, effective collections, and a smooth customer experience. Today the function is supported by a small team of Cash Application Specialists using an automation platform (Tesorio) that we launched earlier this year. Our operating model is automation first. Payment volume will grow many times over, and we expect the team to grow only fractionally, so the leverage has to come from auto-match rates, exception handling, Claude, and better upstream processes rather than from headcount. You will own that outcome: drive the cash application automation roadmap aiming for a largely touchless operation, define and refine the KPIs and SLAs the team is measured against, develop a small, high-performing team that manages exceptions rather than transactions, and keep the processes and policies underneath th