Vendor Admin Lead

<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 looking for a Vendor Admin Lead to own vendor master data for our global Finance Operations team. Reporting to the Director of Global Accounts Payable, you will be the single point of accountability for who our vendors are and get paid: onboarding, bank-detail verification, supporting documentation vetting, data quality and the controls around all of it. Anthropic's vendor base is growing quickly across the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific, and a clean, verified vendor data is what keeps a fast-growing company scale with the necessary controls.&nbsp;</p> <p>This role is deliberately separate from invoice processing and payments. You will control vendor records and bank details; you will not book invoices or move money. That separation is the point of the role, and you will own the SOX controls that enforce it and help design the access model that keeps it that way.</p> <p>This is an opportunity to build a vendor-master function from the ground up and leverage process automation with Claude while supporting the team making AI safe.</p> <h2><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h2> <h3><strong>Supplier onboarding</strong></h3> <ul> <li> <p>Run intake for every new vendor and payee: validate completeness, collect and verify supporting documentation, and enable records in the ERP backbone system against agreed service levels</p> </li> <li> <p>Validate supporting documents; set 1099-reportable and tax flags correctly</p> </li> <li> <p>Confirm third-party risk and restricted-party screening before activation</p> </li> <li> <p>Set up o