Accounts Payable Manager

About Anthropic

Anthropics 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 an experienced AP Manager to lead our global accounts payable operations. In this role you will manage a team of AP specialists across US and international locations drive process improvements and ensure efficient compliant vendor payment operations worldwide. This role will report to the Head of Finance Operations.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the global AP team including hiring training and performance management
• Oversee endtoend AP operations across all entities including vendor administration invoice processing vendor payments and inquiries
• Develop and implement global AP processes and procedures to ensure consistency and compliance
• Drive AP automation initiatives
• Manage vendor relationships and oversee vendor onboarding/maintenance for the global organization
• Ensure compliance with international tax regulations VAT and withholding requirements
• Oversee monthend close activities including AP accruals and reconciliations
• Collaborate with Procurement Accounting Finance & Strategy and Tax teams on crossfunctional initiatives
• Implement and maintain internal controls and SOX compliance for AP processes
• Develop and monitor AP KPIs to drive operational excellence
• Lead special projects and system implementations related to AP operations
• Partner with Procurement on purchasetopay process optimization
• Support international expansion efforts from an AP perspective

You may be a good fit if you have:

• 8 years of experience in accounts payable with at least 3 years in a managerial role
• Experience managing both US and international AP operations
• Strong knowledge of global tax regulations VAT and withholding requirements
• Experience with AP systems (NetSuite and Zip HQ preferred) and automation tools
• Proven track record of process improvement automation and team leadership
• Experience with highgrowth technology companies
• Bachelors degree in Accounting Finance or related field
• Strong analytical and problemsolving skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities

Strong candidates may also have:

• Accounting certification (CPA ACCA) or be working toward one
• Experience with largescale system implementations
• Knowledge of international compliance frameworks (GDPR SOX)

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Locationbased 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 arent 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.

We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. Research shows that people who identify as being from underrepresented groups are more prone to experiencing imposter syndrome and doubting the strength of their candidacy so we urge you not to exclude yourself prematurely and to submit an application if youre interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones were building have enormous social and ethical implications. We think this makes representation even more important and we strive to include a range of diverse perspectives on our team.

How were different

We believe that the highestimpact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few largescale research efforts. And we value impact advancing our longterm goals of steerable trustworthy AI rather than work on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. Were an extremely collaborative group and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highestimpact work at any given time. As such we greatly value communication skills.

The easiest way to understand our research directions is to read our recent research. This research continues many of the directions our team worked on prior to Anthropic including: GPT3 CircuitBased Interpretability Multimodal Neurons Scaling Laws AI & Compute Concrete Problems in AI Safety and Learning from Human Preferences.

Come work with us!

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits optional equity donation matching generous vacation and parental leave flexible working hours and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.