Senior Business Systems Analyst, Finance Systems

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.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Systems Analyst to join our Finance Systems team  this role, you will serve as the internal functional lead for our Workday Financials implementation, owning the design and configuration of the Financial Data Model (FDM), Chart of Accounts, and dimensional structures that will serve as the source of truth for financial reporting. You will develop Prism Analytics and Accounting Center solutions, gather requirements and build reporting capabilities, and collaborate closely with cross‑functional teams to drive the successful adoption of our new ERP platform.

This is a critical role that will directly shape how Anthropic’s finance organization operates as we scale toward public company readiness. You will work at the intersection of finance domain expertise and technical implementation, partnering with the implementation partner, engineering teams, and finance stakeholders to build a world‑class financial systems foundation.

• Serve as internal functional lead for Workday Financials implementation, partnering with consultants to drive configuration decisions, validate designs, and ensure business requirements are met.
• Own the design and configuration of the Financial Data Model (FDM), including Chart of Accounts, Worktags, dimensional hierarchies, and Accounting Books that serve as the source of truth for all financial reporting; support both GAAP and Management reporting requirements.
• Develop and maintain Prism/Accounting Center solutions from source analysis and ingestion design through build, testing, cutover, and hypercare, including integration with external data sources like Big Query and Pigment.
• Gather business requirements from Finance, Accounting, and FP&A stakeholders and translate them into executive reporting, dashboards, and analytics solutions.
• Participate in implementation workshops, challenge requirements, translate business needs into buildable designs and testable acceptance criteria; manage defects and data quality issues throughout the project lifecycle.
• Collaborate with Integrations, Security, and Financials configuration teams to align master data, journals, controls, and performance service level agreements; partner with Data Infrastructure and Biz Tech teams on system integrations.
• Prepare cutover plans, data migration strategies, reconciliation frameworks, and hypercare plans; document data lineage, controls, and audit artifacts to support SOX compliance requirements.
• Work closely with engineering teams and business stakeholders to drive ongoing expansion and adoption of the Workday platform, identifying opportunities for process improvement and automation.

• Have 8+ years of experience in finance systems, ERP implementation, or business systems analysis roles, with at least 5 years of hands‑on Workday Financials experience.
• Possess deep expertise in Workday Financial Data Model (FDM), including Chart of Accounts design, Worktags configuration, dimensional hierarchies, and Accounting Books setup.
• Have strong experience with Workday Prism Analytics, including data modeling, source integration, calculated fields, and report development.
• Be skilled at translating complex business requirements into technical solutions, bridging the gap between finance stakeholders and technical implementation teams.
• Have experience with full ERP implementation life cycles, including requirements gathering, configuration, testing, data migration, cutover planning, and hypercare.
• Possess a strong understanding of financial accounting processes including General Ledger, mult‑entity consolidation, intercompany accounting, and management reporting.
• Have excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with finance leadership,…