About this role
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:
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
• Bias towards action, strong work ethic, and experience driving operational outcomes under tight timelines
• Strong relationship building, business judgment, process management, and communication skills
• Passion for Anthropic's mission to build safe, transformative AI systems
Preferred qualifications
• 7+ years of experience in strategic finance, infrastructure investment, FP&A, private equity, consulting, or investment banking
• Direct experience with datacenter, colocation, or power (PPA / energy procurement) economics and contract structures
• Experience managing finance cadence with a third-party operator or managed-services provider
• Background in AI, ML, or high-performance, large-scale computing infrastructure
• Proficiency with financial modeling tools and languages (SQL, Python, Excel)
• MBA or other advanced degree in finance, economics, or business
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