Director, M&A Finance Integration

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.

Anthropic is seeking a dedicated finance integration lead to own the finance function's role from post-signing phase through Day 1 readiness, post-close integration execution, and ongoing playbook development. This is a rare build-and-run opportunity. You will partner closely with the Corporate Development Integration Lead as the dedicated Finance lead within the Integration Management Office (IMO), while reporting to the Head of Corporate Accounting.

You will be the connective tissue between deal teams and the Finance organization, and the primary architect of Anthropic's scalable M&A finance integration playbook. The ideal candidate has operated in a similar function at a high-growth technology company, and thrives on building rigorous, repeatable processes in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.

• Serve as the Finance function lead within the IMO, coordinating the Finance workstream alongside the Corporate Development Integration Lead who owns overall IMO governance
• Design end-to-end Finance integration plans for each transaction: accounting close, financial reporting, ERP/systems migration, treasury, payroll, FP&A alignment, and tax considerations
• Define Day 0 through Day 100 Finance milestones with clear owners, dependencies, and escalation paths
• Build and maintain project plans, issue logs, risk registers, and RACI matrices for the Finance workstream; own reporting into the IMO steering committee
• Coordinate cross-functional Finance dependencies spanning Accounting, Tax, FP&A, Treasury, Procurement, Payroll, and IT/ERP

• Own Finance Day 1 readiness and drive execution through the first 100 days, ensuring acquired entities are fully onboarded with zero disruption to close cycles
• Execute Day 1 Finance checklist: bank account access, payroll cutover, AP/AR continuity, ERP provisioning, and expense policy communication
• Oversee purchase price accounting and opening balance sheet preparation in accordance with ASC 805, coordinating with external valuation advisors as needed
• Drive alignment of acquired entity accounting policies to Anthropic's standards: revenue recognition, cost allocation, capitalization thresholds, close calendar, and chart of accounts
• Serve as the primary Finance point of contact for acquired Finance teams during transition

• Develop and maintain a modular Finance Integration Playbook covering all acquisition types, including due diligence checklists, Day 1 readiness plans, 30/60/90/100-day task libraries, systems migration runbooks, and PPA templates
• Build KPI frameworks to measure Finance integration success: close cycle achievement, systems migration completeness, synergy capture rates, and audit-readiness
• Conduct post-integration retrospectives after each deal; capture lessons learned and feed insights back into playbook refinement
• Identify and implement tooling to support integration project management and repeatable reporting cadences

• Act as a trusted advisor to finance stakeholders on Finance integration progress, risk exposure, and key decision points
• Coordinate across Finance sub-functions (Controllership, Tax, Treasury, FP&A, Procurement) and cross-functional partners (Legal, HR, IT, Engineering) to drive workstream execution
• Manage relationships with external advisors including audit firms, tax advisors, valuation firms, and ERP implementation partners
• Communicate integration status to Finance and executive leadership through clear dashboards, steering committee packs, and written briefings
• Manage and coordinate direct engagement with the target executives (e.g. CEO) during due diligence and integration planning efforts prior to deal close