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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 a Strategic Finance Lead to own the operating P&L for Anthropic's datacenter infrastructure partnerships. This role will be the finance owner for every site covering lease, power and operations.
In this role, you will be a key partner to our infrastructure teams, providing financial expertise and guidance to keep our sites on budget, drive operating costs down, and de-risk our largest infrastructure exposures. You will own the near-term forecast for datacenter spend, run budget-vs-actual on projects, and serve as the primary finance counterpart to our datacenter operating partners.
Responsibilities:
Datacenter Financial Planning & Analysis
- Own FP&A for all live-site datacenter operating costs including lease/rent, power, hardware ops, facility/DC ops, physical security, warehousing, and operator fees
- Build and maintain per-site cost forecasts; refresh on a cadence that supports monthly reviews and board reporting
- Run budget-vs-actual on datacenter developer spend and site build budgets, tracking expected eventual spend against approved commitments
- Own the in-year power cost model across pass-through and direct costs
- Reconcile operating partner invoices to forecast and lead the finance operating cadence with datacenter partners
- Partner with Accounting on contract operationalization, lease accounting, and close
Strategic Projects
- Lead financial analysis for site-level optimization initiatives and operating model decisions
- Handle operational finance asks tied to datacenter partners and live sites
- Partner with the Datacenter Expansion lead on deal-to-operations handoffs, ensuring budgets set at signing are operationalized at commissioning
You may be a good fit if you have:
- 7+ years of experience in strategic finance, infrastructure investment, FP&A, private equity, consulting, or investment banking, preferably with datacenter, energy, real estate, telco, or managed-services infrastructure experience
- Owned an infrastructure operating P&L and driven cost-out programs against it
- Exceptional analytical skills with an ability to synthesize data into compelling insights and develop complex financial operating models
- Comfort being the finance person in the partner/vendor room and partnering with technical operating teams
- A bias towards action, strong work ethic, and experience driving operational outcomes under tight timelines
- Strong relationship building, business judgment, process management, and communication skills
- Passion for Anthropic's mission to build safe, transformative AI systems
Strong candidates may also have:
- Direct experience with datacenter, colocation, or power (PPA / energy procurement) economics and contract structures
- Experience managing finance cadence with a third-party operator or managed-services provider
- Background in AI, ML, or high-performance, large-scale computing infrastructure
- Proficiency with financial modeling tools and languages (SQL, Python, Excel)
- MBA or other advanced degree in finance, economics, or business
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Annual Salary:
$235,000 - $310,000 USD
Logistics
Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
Location-based 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 aren't 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 you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're 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.
Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.
How we're different
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term 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. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact 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: GPT-3, Circuit-Based 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.
Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.
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 a Strategic Finance Lead to own the operating P&L for Anthropic's datacenter infrastructure partnerships. This role will be the finance owner for every site covering lease, power and operations.
In this role, you will be a key partner to our infrastructure teams, providing financial expertise and guidance to keep our sites on budget, drive operating costs down, and de-risk our largest infrastructure exposures. You will own the near-term forecast for datacenter spend, run budget-vs-actual on projects, and serve as the primary finance counterpart to our datacenter operating partners.
Responsibilities:
Datacenter Financial Planning & Analysis
- Own FP&A for all live-site datacenter operating costs including lease/rent, power, hardware ops, facility/DC ops, physical security, warehousing, and operator fees
- Build and maintain per-site cost forecasts; refresh on a cadence that supports monthly reviews and board reporting
- Run budget-vs-actual on datacenter developer spend and site build budgets, tracking expected eventual spend against approved commitments
- Own the in-year power cost model across pass-through and direct costs
- Reconcile operating partner invoices to forecast and lead the finance operating cadence with datacenter partners
- Partner with Accounting on contract operationalization, lease accounting, and close
Strategic Projects
- Lead financial analysis for site-level optimization initiatives and operating model decisions
- Handle operational finance asks tied to datacenter partners and live sites
- Partner with the Datacenter Expansion lead on deal-to-operations handoffs, ensuring budgets set at signing are operationalized at commissioning
You may be a good fit if you have:
- 7+ years of experience in strategic finance, infrastructure investment, FP&A, private equity, consulting, or investment banking, preferably with datacenter, energy, real estate, telco, or managed-services infrastructure experience
- Owned an infrastructure operating P&L and driven cost-out programs against it
- Exceptional analytical skills with an ability to synthesize data into compelling insights and develop complex financial operating models
- Comfort being the finance person in the partner/vendor room and partnering with technical operating teams
- A bias towards action, strong work ethic, and experience driving operational outcomes under tight timelines
- Strong relationship building, business judgment, process management, and communication skills
- Passion for Anthropic's mission to build safe, transformative AI systems
Strong candidates may also have:
- Direct experience with datacenter, colocation, or power (PPA / energy procurement) economics and contract structures
- Experience managing finance cadence with a third-party operator or managed-services provider
- Background in AI, ML, or high-performance, large-scale computing infrastructure
- Proficiency with financial modeling tools and languages (SQL, Python, Excel)
- MBA or other advanced degree in finance, economics, or business
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
For sales roles, the range provided is the role’s On Target Earnings ("OTE") range, meaning that the range includes both the sales commissions/sales bonuses target and annual base salary for the role.
Annual Salary:
$235,000 - $310,000 USD
Logistics
Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
Location-based 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 aren't 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 you're interested in this work. We think AI systems like the ones we're 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.
Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, remember that Anthropic recruiters only contact you from @anthropic.com email addresses. In some cases, we may partner with vetted recruiting agencies who will identify themselves as working on behalf of Anthropic. Be cautious of emails from other domains. Legitimate Anthropic recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before your first day. If you're ever unsure about a communication, don't click any links—visit anthropic.com/careers directly for confirmed position openings.
How we're different
We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. And we value impact — advancing our long-term 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. We're an extremely collaborative group, and we host frequent research discussions to ensure that we are pursuing the highest-impact 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: GPT-3, Circuit-Based 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.
Guidance on Candidates' AI Usage: Learn about our policy for using AI in our application process.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship as a Strategic Finance Lead
Frame your credentials for U.S. specialty occupation
Australian three-year bachelor's degrees qualify under E-3 specialty occupation rules, but your application should explicitly show the degree-to-role connection. Document how your finance or accounting qualification directly underpins the Strategic Finance Lead responsibilities your employer will list in the LCA.
Target companies with active LCA filing histories
Search DOL's Office of Foreign Labor Certification disclosure data to identify employers who have filed LCAs for finance and FP&A roles before. Prior filings signal an internal process exists, which significantly reduces delays after you receive an offer.
Distinguish your strategic role from general finance positions
Strategic Finance Lead roles can face scrutiny if the job description reads like a generalist accounting role. Work with your employer to ensure the LCA and offer letter emphasize forecasting, business case development, and cross-functional decision support rather than transactional finance duties.
Negotiate LCA filing into your offer timeline
DOL certifies most LCAs within seven working days, but your employer needs to initiate the filing before you can proceed to the consulate. Raise this at the offer stage so HR doesn't treat it as an afterthought, which is a common cause of avoidable delays.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for end-to-end preparation
From LCA submission to DS-160 completion and consulate appointment preparation, Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service manages the entire process. Use it to avoid the coordination gaps that occur when employers handle paperwork without dedicated E-3 experience.
Prepare for prevailing wage questions at the consulate
Consular officers may review whether your offered compensation meets DOL prevailing wage levels for the role and location. Bring a copy of the certified LCA to your appointment and be ready to explain how your total compensation aligns with the wage determination on file.
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Find Strategic Finance Lead JobsStrategic Finance Lead E-3 Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I find Strategic Finance Lead jobs with E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is the purpose-built platform for Australian professionals searching for U.S. roles with E-3 sponsorship. It surfaces employers who have filed LCAs for finance and strategy roles, so you're not cold-applying to companies that have never sponsored an E-3. Filter by role type and location to find active opportunities matched to your background.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a Strategic Finance Lead role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
Yes, provided the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field such as finance, accounting, economics, or a related discipline. The role must genuinely require that theoretical and practical application of that degree. Roles that accept any bachelor's degree regardless of field are harder to support, so the job description and LCA need to reflect a clear academic-to-role connection.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Strategic Finance Lead roles?
The E-3 has no annual lottery, so if you receive a job offer and meet the requirements, approval is procedural rather than chance-based. H-1B selection is random and capped at 85,000 annually, meaning qualified candidates are regularly turned away. For Australian nationals in finance roles, the E-3 is a far more predictable path to starting work in the U.S. on a specific timeline.
Can I change employers while on an E-3 as a Strategic Finance Lead?
Yes, but each new employer must file a fresh LCA and you'll need a new E-3 visa stamp if yours is tied to the previous employer. There is no portability mechanism like the one available under H-1B, so timing matters. Most people apply for the new visa stamp before leaving their current role or during an Australia trip, using the new employer's certified LCA.
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