Financial Data and Controls Lead, Billing Platform
About the role
Anthropic is seeking a Financial Data and Controls Lead to join our Billing Platform team. Billing Platform builds the systems customers use to transact with Anthropic: subscriptions, usage billing, quote to cash, invoicing, and payments. You'll be the dedicated owner of billing accuracy, reconciliation, and financial controls across those systems, making sure the right checks run, the right controls are in place, and the audit evidence exists.
Our billing systems and pricing change often, and each flow needs to meet SOX requirements. Accurate billing is what lets us launch products and pricing quickly and still close the books on time. The hard problems today include validating negotiated pricing from contract to invoice, handling the many forms of credits, app store billing, and keeping controls current while the systems under them are replaced.
This is a foundational role and the first hire of its kind on the team. You'll lead a working group of the reconciliation and controls owners from each billing engineering team, and you'll set the approach they follow. You'll work closely with Finance Systems, Accounting, Internal Audit, and Data Engineering.
The role sits in Engineering and works with Finance every day. Our Data organization builds the pipelines and owns the warehouse, and you'll use that data and partner with that team. We're looking for an engineer or data practitioner with strong accounting domain knowledge, who can talk to engineers about systems and to Finance and auditors about risk and materiality.
Key responsibilities
Own reconciliation and accuracy checks for critical billing data (quantity, price, discounts, and invoices) across our product platform, third-party billing and payment providers, app stores, cloud marketplaces, and in-house systems
Design and run detective controls that catch billing errors before they reach the accounting books
Partner with billing engineering teams to turn repeat checks into automated verifiers
Review billing changes that have financial impact, flag the ones that touch SOX or IT application controls (ITACs), and make sure functional test evidence is in place
Make SOX review a standard, lightweight step in how billing changes ship, treated like a security review, so launches are not delayed by it
Own the end-to-end test strategy and audit evidence for those changes, working with Finance Systems, Data Engineering, Accounting, and Internal Audit
Triage billing errors, prioritize backfills and fixes with the owning teams, and track materiality over time
Define and maintain the data contracts between billing and finance systems, so downstream teams can find and trust the data they need
Lead the working group of reconciliation and controls owners across billing engineering teams, through influence and not reporting lines
Act as the Billing owner, alongside Accounting and Finance Systems, for translating the product and pricing roadmap into financial impact, test strategy, and process updates
Minimum qualifications
Experience building or owning a financial ledger, billing reconciliation, or cash reconciliation system end to end, one that Accounting relied on to close the books
Hands-on SQL skills strong enough to take two messy datasets (for example usage events and invoices), match them, find the breaks, and explain the root cause
Accounting domain knowledge (order to cash, month-end close, and materiality) sufficient to tell which billing changes have financial impact
Experience working with SOX and Internal Audit teams on IT application controls, detective controls, transaction monitoring, functional test evidence, and auditor walkthroughs
Experience defining data contracts between billing or product systems and finance systems such as the ERP, general ledger, or revenue recognition
Track record of driving work across Engineering, Finance, Accounting, and Audit without direct authority
Ability to explain technical issues to Finance and auditors in their terms, and financial risk to engineers in theirs
Interest in AI and a commitment to Anthropic's mission of building safe, beneficial AI systems
Preferred qualifications
Background as a backend, data, or analytics engineer who built a financial ledger or cash reconciliation system from scratch
Experience running these systems under public company reporting requirements, and scaling them as the company grew
Experience with usage-based or consumption billing
Experience with multi-party billing, such as marketplaces, or app stores
Experience turning manual checks into automated verifiers with engineering teams
Experience remediating a control deficiency, or standing up a controls program while the underlying systems were changing
A track record of using Claude or other AI tools to automate reconciliation, testing, or evidence collection, with checks that hold up to review
Experience with billing and finance tools such as Stripe, Metronome, Zuora, NetSuite, or Workday Financials
Python for data analysis or automation
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Annual Salary:
$345,000—$425,000 USD