345K–425K USD / year
Financial Data and Controls Lead, Billing Platform
DataHybrid — San Francisco, CA, New York City, NY
Published on 2026-10-20
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About this role
Own billing accuracy, reconciliation, and financial controls across Anthropic’s billing systems. Partner with engineering, Finance, Accounting, Data Engineering, and Internal Audit to automate checks, maintain SOX compliance, and support reliable product and pricing launches.
About the company
Anthropic builds reliable and interpretable AI systems, including the Claude family of models, for businesses and developers. The company focuses on AI safety research and practical AI assistants for enterprise and consumer use.
The team
Billing Platform
Stack
SQLPythonStripeMetronomeZuoraNetSuiteWorkday Financials
What you'll do
- Own reconciliation and accuracy checks across billing, payment, marketplace, and in-house systems.
- Design detective controls and partner with engineering teams to automate billing verification.
- Review financially impactful billing changes and ensure SOX controls and test evidence are in place.
- Own test strategy and audit evidence in partnership with Finance Systems, Data Engineering, Accounting, and Internal Audit.
- Triage billing errors, prioritize fixes and backfills, and track materiality.
- Define data contracts between billing and finance systems.
- Lead a cross-team working group of reconciliation and controls owners.
What we're looking for
- Experience building or owning a financial ledger, billing reconciliation, or cash reconciliation system used by Accounting to close the books.
- Strong hands-on SQL skills for matching datasets, identifying breaks, and explaining root causes.
- Accounting knowledge of order to cash, month-end close, and materiality.
- Experience working with SOX, Internal Audit, IT application controls, detective controls, and audit evidence.
- Experience defining data contracts between billing or product systems and finance systems.
- Ability to drive work across Engineering, Finance, Accounting, and Audit without direct authority.
Nice to have
- Backend, data, or analytics engineering experience building a financial ledger or cash reconciliation system.
- Experience with public company reporting requirements or usage-based billing.
- Experience with marketplace or app store billing.
- Experience automating checks or remediating controls while systems are changing.
- Experience using AI tools to automate reconciliation, testing, or evidence collection.
- Python experience for data analysis or automation.
Benefits
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Optional equity donation matching