Director of Technical Accounting (Investments)

Join Anthropic, a leading AI safety and research company, as the Director of Technical Accounting – Investments and M&A. In this role, you will be responsible for the company's accounting for strategic investments, partnerships with investment components, and related capital transactions. You will work closely with various departments, including Corporate Development, Legal, Tax, Treasury, FP&A, and leadership, to ensure accurate reflection of investment economics under US GAAP. This is a builder role where you will help establish and continuously improve the portfolio accounting process, controls, and valuation governance.

• Assumer la responsabilité de la comptabilité de l'entreprise pour les investissements stratégiques, les partenariats et les transactions de capital.
• Collaborer étroitement avec le développement d'entreprise, le juridique, la fiscalité, la trésorerie et la direction pour garantir que l'économie des investissements est correctement reflétée.
• Aider à établir et à affiner le processus de comptabilité du portefeuille, les contrôles et la gouvernance de l'évaluation.

• Communicate effectively with Corporate Development, Legal, and Tax on structuring trade-offs, translating technical conclusions for cross-functional and senior stakeholders
• Curious about and quick to adopt new AI tools, including Claude and Claude for Finance
• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
• Have built an investment accounting process from the ground up, including intake, quarterly monitoring, and SOX-compliant controls over non-routine/complex transactions
• Are proficient with accounting systems (Workday preferred), consolidation tools, and advanced Excel/modeling
• Have owned the accounting for a portfolio of minority/strategic investments, including quarterly impairment and fair value monitoring and at least one investment of meaningful scale or complexity
• Demonstrate exceptional written and verbal communication, translating complex investment and deal accounting into clear business implications
• Have deep, practitioner-level expertise in one or more of the following:
• Collaborative arrangements and consideration exchanged in commercial deals (ASC 808, 606)
• Investments in equity securities, equity method, and consolidation (ASC 321, 323, 810), including VIE/primary-beneficiary analysis, basis differences, and the measurement alternative
• Have experience with novel AI/technology structures — investments bundled with compute or commercial agreements, warrants received from customers or vendors, revenue-share partnerships, and strategic investor rights — and are passionate about leveraging AI to automate portfolio monitoring, memo drafting, and close
• Are fluent in valuation concepts and can direct and challenge third-party specialists on private company fair value, warrant/option pricing, impairment, and PPA models
• Hold an active CPA license
• Have 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 4+ years owning strategic investment, equity method, or consolidation accounting end-to-end
• Business combinations and asset acquisitions (ASC 805), including contingent consideration and step acquisitions
• Have prepared or reviewed investment disclosures in SEC filings, including fair value hierarchy, equity method, and VIE disclosures
• Proven experience leading complex valuations (e.g., business combinations, equity and debt investments, warrants and other Level 3 instruments), including directing and challenging the work of third-party valuation specialists
• Fair value measurement, derivatives, and embedded features (ASC 820, 815, 825), including warrants and Level 3 inputs for private company investments
• Have operated within an investments-accounting or deal-accounting function, contributing to playbook and controls design
• Excel at hands-on technical execution in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment, shifting between portfolio work and live deals as priorities change
• Bring significant Big 4 experience — ideally in a National Office, Transaction/Deal Advisory, or Capital Markets/Accounting Advisory group — paired with in-house experience at a technology company and public accounting or advisory experience
• Possess deep command of US GAAP for investments in equity securities, equity method, consolidation and VIEs, fair value measurement, and business combinations, with a track record of positions that withstand auditor and regulator scrutiny