Finance & Strategy, Datacenter / Infrastructure Finance
Menlo Ventures, San Francisco, CA, United States
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.
Responsibilities
Datacenter Financial Planning & Analysis:
Own FP&A for all live-site datacenter operating costs including lease/rent, power, hardware ops, facility/DC ops, physical security, warehousing, and operator fees.
Build and maintain per-site cost forecasts; refresh on a cadence that supports monthly reviews and board reporting.
Run budget-vs-actual on datacenter developer spend and site build budgets, tracking expected eventual spend against approved commitments.
Own the in-year power cost model across pass-through and direct costs.
Reconcile operating partner invoices to forecast and lead the finance operating cadence with datacenter partners.
Partner with Accounting on contract operationalization, lease accounting, and close.
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.
You may be a good fit if you have:
7+ years of 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.
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 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.
Annual Compensation
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
Annual Salary: $235,000 – $310,000 USD
Logistics
Minimum education:
Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
Required field of study:
A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Minimum years of experience:
Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
Location-based hybrid policy:
Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship:
We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
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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.
Responsibilities
Datacenter Financial Planning & Analysis:
Own FP&A for all live-site datacenter operating costs including lease/rent, power, hardware ops, facility/DC ops, physical security, warehousing, and operator fees.
Build and maintain per-site cost forecasts; refresh on a cadence that supports monthly reviews and board reporting.
Run budget-vs-actual on datacenter developer spend and site build budgets, tracking expected eventual spend against approved commitments.
Own the in-year power cost model across pass-through and direct costs.
Reconcile operating partner invoices to forecast and lead the finance operating cadence with datacenter partners.
Partner with Accounting on contract operationalization, lease accounting, and close.
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.
You may be a good fit if you have:
7+ years of 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.
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 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.
Annual Compensation
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
Annual Salary: $235,000 – $310,000 USD
Logistics
Minimum education:
Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
Required field of study:
A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Minimum years of experience:
Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
Location-based hybrid policy:
Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
Visa sponsorship:
We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
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