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 Finance Lead to own and support various data center strategic initiatives.
In this role, you will be a key partner to our technical teams, providing financial expertise and guidance as we build out our data center footprint. You will manage large, complex, and cross-functional transactions, working with internal stakeholders and external partners to responsibly drive data center expansion and de-risk our capacity plans. You will also work closely with our Capital Markets & Corporate Development teams on a wide range of strategic projects and financing-related initiatives.
Responsibilities
Strategic Projects
• Lead strategic initiatives to support datacenter expansion and identify new potential areas of focus
• Negotiate complex transactions with external counterparties and drive internal cross-functional alignment
• Manage data center pipeline, partnering closely with FP&A leads to track and benchmark economics across the portfolio
• Partner with Capital Markets & Corporate Development on datacenter project financing across the capital structure
Datacenter Financial Planning & Analysis
• Own FP&A related to these initiatives, largely tied to tracking and forecasting capex and cash flow driven by your projects
• Build detailed financial models to support strategic decision-making
• Run budget-vs-actual on datacenter developer spend and site build budgets, tracking expected eventual spend against approved commitments
• Partner with Accounting on contract operationalization, lease accounting, and close
You may be a good fit if you have:
• 7+ years of experience in strategic finance, infrastructure investing, private equity, or investment banking, preferably with datacenter, energy, real estate, or other infrastructure experience
• Executed investments or M&A transactions, preferably with a focus on technology or digital infrastructure
• Exceptional analytical skills with an ability to synthesize data into compelling insights and develop complex financial models
• Comfort managing both internal and external stakeholders, including deeply technical business partners
• A 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
Strong candidates may also have:
• Direct experience executing large-scale data center or compute-related transactions
• Background in AI, ML, or high-performance, large-scale computing