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
As a Senior Analyst, Travel & Expense, you will run the day-to-day financial controls, audit program, and executive reporting behind Anthropic's T&E function. T&E touches every employee, every legal entity, and every executive, and it runs on Navan, Brex, and negotiated supplier agreements. Spend and transaction volume have grown several-fold in the past six quarters, and the controls need to scale to meet a public-company standard.
You will report to the Head of Travel & Expense in Finance Operations and work daily with Accounting, Tax, Payroll, Talent, Security, Legal, Finance Systems and Administrative Business Partners.
Responsibilities
Controls & SOX Compliance
• Own the day-to-day operation of key T&E controls, including approvals, card issuance and spend limits, segregation of duties, and policy exceptions, within the control framework set by the Head of T&E, who owns the overall T&E process
• Maintain the T&E process narratives and risk and control matrix, and keep them current as systems and policies change
• Ensure correct GL coding and complete, accurate month-end reconciliations across Navan, Brex, and Workday, and support close, flux analysis, and accruals
• Act as the preparer for T&E controls and the day-to-day contact for internal and external auditors: gather and retain evidence, support walkthroughs and sample requests, and track remediation, escalating significant issues to the Head of T&E
International Expansion Controls
• Set up and maintain entity-level coding and approval flows in Brex and Navan as new legal entities and countries come online
• Document and operationalize country-specific rules for per diems, VAT reclaim, non-USD cards, receipt requirements, and local tax treatment
• Partner with Tax, Payroll, and Global Mobility to ensure compliance
• Support accurate intercompany treatment of T&E costs across entities
T&E Audit Program
• Help design, build, and run a risk-based audit program covering sampling, anomaly detection, misuse escalation, and remediation tracking
• Define and monitor pre-spend rules, duplicate and split-transaction checks, and receipt and 30-day submission compliance
• Build dashboards and reporting on policy compliance, exceptions, and control performance for Finance leadership
• Partner with the Head of T&E to deploy Claude to review transactions, flag policy exceptions, and automate recurring reporting
Program Operations
• Own day-to-day T&E operations, supporting the growing volume of travel and expense activity and platform configuration and automation, so o