Finance Systems Engineer, Finance and Strategy

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 looking for a Finance & Strategy (FP&A)  Systems Engineer to join our Finance Systems team at Anthropic. In this role, you will be responsible for building and maintaining platforms that support our core Financial Planning, Forecasting and Analytics processes. You will bring deep hands-on expertise in EPM platforms like Anaplan, Pigment and data platforms like BigQuery, who writes integrations, tooling, and production code that connect them to Anthropic’s ERP and data warehouse systems. You'll work closely with Corporate Finance & strategy stakeholders to translate business requirements into innovative technical solutions, maintain data integrity, and drive continuous improvements to our financial systems infrastructure.

You'll manage day-to-day Finance system operations, support critical financial processes and monthly Forecasting cycles, and take on more ambitious system projects over time, including using Claude to automate FP&A work, help build scalable solutions that enable efficient financial planning, forecasting, and reporting as we continue to grow.

Responsibilities

Systems Administration and Support

Serve as a primary system administrator for our financial planning platform (Pigment), maintaining system health and optimal performance

Manage Finance applications, data, user access & security,  system configurations, version management to ensure appropriate controls and governance.

Provide technical support and troubleshooting for end-users, resolving issues and answering system-related questions

System Development and Enhancement 

Design, build, and maintain applications, Financial  models and workflows with in-house tools and EPM platform like Pigment to support financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes

Develop and maintain secure dataflows, integrations using Rest APIs to connect FP&A platforms, data warehouse with enterprise systems (e.g., Workday Financials, Salesforce CRM, etc.)

Develop SQL-based data models, ETL pipelines, and reporting infrastructure to support financial close, forecasting, and business intelligence. 

Business Partnership and Process Improvement

Partner with Finance & Strategy (FP&A), Accounting, and other Finance teams to understand business problems and use AI tools to build cutting edge solutions

Support Monthly Forecast, Annual & Long Range planning, Workforce planning, OPEX Forecasting, Balance Sheet & Cash flow forecasting processes.

Identify and implement process and Finance platform  improvements. 

Participate in testing and validation of system changes, ensuring accuracy and reliability

Assist with training and onboarding of new system users

Data Management and Quality

Ensure the accuracy and integrity of financial data across systems

Develop and maintain data validation rules and quality checks

Troubleshoot data discrepancies and work with relevant teams to resolve issues

Support data migration and transformation activities as needed

Minium Qualifications

Have 8+ years of experience in FP&A systems -  EPM platforms, Finance data warehouse, with a focus on financial planning, forecasting and analysis.

Have hands-on experience administering and developing solutions in enterprise planning platforms (e.g., Pigment, Anaplan, Adaptive Planning, or similar EPM tools)

Possess strong engineering and technical skills including advanced SQL and data modeling skills, creating and maintaining system integrations and data pipelines.

Have demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications and system designs.

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