Director, Finance Systems - Revenue Systems Engineering

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 seeking an experienced Revenue Systems Engineering Director to join our Finance Systems team at Anthropic. You will own the technical architecture, implementation, and optimization of our Order-to-Cash (OTC) systems as we scale globally. You'll serve as the technical lead for our revenue systems within the ERP ecosystem, driving automation of revenue recognition processes and integrating our billing, sales, and financial systems.

Responsibilities

Revenue Platform Architecture & Development

Own the revenue systems architecture and development supporting multi-entity operations and global subsidiaries

Design and implement scalable data pipelines using DBT/SQL frameworks to transform high-volume financial transactions with low-latency response times for real-time integrations

Build and maintain automated revenue recognition workflows ensuring ASC 606 compliance for complex subscription and consumption-based billing models

Data Engineering & Pipeline Orchestration

Modify, enhance, and optimize data transformation models using DBT/SQL to support standardized data flows across accounting, billing engineering, and product teams

Establish comprehensive testing frameworks for data transformations, formally documenting successful behavior to support System Integration Testing (SIT) and audit requirements

Systems Integration & Technical Leadership

Collaborate with Revenue Accounting, Data Infrastructure, and BizTech teams to design enterprise-grade integration patterns supporting significant transaction volume growth

Implement automated reconciliation engines achieving rapid variance detection and substantially reducing manual revenue team effort

Provide technical expertise during month-end close processes, ensuring system reliability and performance during peak transaction volumes

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

Pioneer AI integration for revenue operations, building intelligent agents for discrepancy investigation, automated testing, and self-service analytics

Evaluate and implement emerging technologies to modernize integration architecture

Establish best practices with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and deployment workflows maintaining high reliability standards

Mentor team members on technical best practices, code reviews, and documentation standards

Minimum qualifications

Possess strong technical proficiency in Python, SQL, DBT, and modern data engineering tools (workflow orchestration, infrastructure as code, cloud data warehouses)

Have extensive experience with enterprise billing platforms and revenue recognition requirements (ASC 606)

Demonstrate expert-level understanding of ERP systems with hands-on configuration and integration experience, including proficiency with API development (REST, SOAP/XML, webhooks) and understanding of ERP extension patterns and custom object development

Experience with additional programming languages (Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go) for building integrations, APIs, and custom ERP extensions

Track record of leading technical workstreams during ERP transformations or major system migrations

Are skilled at designing scalable integration architectures, including both real-time APIs and batch processing patterns for high-volume financial transactions

Have proven ability to translate complex business requirements into robust technical solutions while maintaining alignment with accounting principles and audit standards

Understanding of consumption-based pricing models, usage metering platforms, and marketplace billing

Thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where you …