Finance Systems Engineer, Finance and Strategy

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.

We are looking for a Finance & Strategy (FP&A) Systems Engineer to join our Finance Systems team at Anthropic. In this role, you will be responsible for building and maintaining platforms that support our core Financial Planning, Forecasting and Analytics processes. You will bring deep hands-on expertise in EPM platforms like Anaplan, Pigment and data platforms like BigQuery, who writes integrations, tooling, and production code that connect them to Anthropic’s ERP and data warehouse systems. You'll work closely with Corporate Finance & strategy stakeholders to translate business requirements into innovative technical solutions, maintain data integrity, and drive continuous improvements to our financial systems infrastructure.

You'll manage day-to-day Finance system operations, support critical financial processes and monthly Forecasting cycles, and take on more ambitious system projects over time, including using Claude to automate FP&A work, help build scalable solutions that enable efficient financial planning, forecasting, and reporting as we continue to grow.

Systems Administration and Support

• Serve as a primary system administrator for our financial planning platform (Pigment), maintaining system health and optimal performance

• Manage Finance applications, data, user access & security, system configurations, version management to ensure appropriate controls and governance.

• Provide technical support and troubleshooting for end-users, resolving issues and answering system-related questions

System Development and Enhancement

• Design, build, and maintain applications, Financial models and workflows with in-house tools and EPM platform like Pigment to support financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes

• Develop and maintain secure dataflows, integrations using Rest APIs to connect FP&A platforms, data warehouse with enterprise systems (e.g., Workday Financials, Salesforce CRM, etc.)

• Develop SQL-based data models, ETL pipelines, and reporting infrastructure to support financial close, forecasting, and business intelligence.

Business Partnership and Process Improvement

• Partner with Finance & Strategy (FP&A), Accounting, and other Finance teams to understand business problems and use AI tools to build cutting edge solutions

• Support Monthly Forecast, Annual & Long Range planning, Workforce planning, OPEX Forecasting, Balance Sheet & Cash flow forecasting processes.

• Identify and implement process and Finance platform improvements.

• Participate in testing and validation of system changes, ensuring accuracy and reliability

• Assist with training and onboarding of new system users

Data Management and Quality

• Ensure the accuracy and integrity of financial data across systems

• Develop and maintain data validation rules and quality checks

• Troubleshoot data discrepancies and work with relevant teams to resolve issues

• Support data migration and transformation activities as needed

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