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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 looking for a Corporate Accountant to join Anthropic's Corporate Accounting Operations team. Reporting to the Director of Accounting Operations, you will lead a team of accountants while staying hands-on — reviewing and preparing close materials, setting technical standards, and owning your own portfolio of accounts through close. This is a build role. You will write and own the policies and SOPs your team operates against, design the controls framework, and continuously improve the processes underneath it — including using Claude and other tools to automate work that doesn't need to be manual. We are looking for someone who has done this before: built accounting infrastructure from scratch in high-growth environments and wants to do it again at one of the most important companies in the world.
Responsibilities
Close Operations:
- Own a portfolio of accounts through month-end and quarter-end close — including reconciliations, journal entries, and variance commentary
- Drive close acceleration by identifying bottlenecks and implementing process changes that reduce cycle time without sacrificing accuracy
- Ensure all close deliverables are consistently audit-ready, with clear documentation of positions and supporting evidence
- Oversee SOX control preparation and execution across your accounts; review control evidence and own timely remediation of any gaps
Technical Accounting & Policy:
- Write, own, and maintain technical accounting policies and SOPs across your domain — drafting, evolving, and operationalising them as the business changes
- Review technical accounting memos prepared by your team; ensure conclusions are well-supported and consistent with US GAAP
- Collaborate with Technical Accounting on new or evolving standards and translate guidance into procedures the team can execute
- Own external audit responses within your domain; ensure timely delivery of supporting schedules and audit-ready workpapers
Process Improvement & Automation:
- Identify repetitive, rules-based tasks across the team's workflows and build scalable solutions — including leveraging Claude — to automate or replace them
- Document workflows and controls in a way that supports knowledge transfer, audit evidence, and system scalability
- Contribute to ERP and systems implementations, translating accounting requirements into clear specifications and test criteria
Cross-Functional Partnership:
- Partner with Finance & Strategy, Tax, People Operations, Procurement, and Facilities to keep accounting aligned with business activity in real time
- Translate complex accounting positions into plain language for non-finance stakeholders
- Support new entity setup and geographic expansion by establishing accounting processes for new jurisdictions as Anthropic grows
Team Leadership & Review:
- Coach and develop a team of highly agile performers — providing timely, specific feedback that raises the technical and operational bar over time
- Hire and onboard accountants as the team grows; set clear expectations and build a culture of precision and continuous improvement
- Serve as the first escalation point for complex transactions and accounting judgments across your team's workstreams
Areas Of Experience Include
- Close management and acceleration; process improvement; SOX control design and operation
- Real estate and lease accounting (ASC 842); fixed assets, capitalisation policy, and depreciation
- Payroll accounting; stock-based compensation (ASC 718); commissions (ASC 340-40); contingent worker accounting
- Cash and investments; debt accounting; IDSE, Intangibles, prepaids, accruals, and period-end cut-off controls
You May Be a Good Fit If You
- Hold an active CPA licence
- Have around 10 years of progressive accounting experience, combining public company experience (in audit or in-house) with time at a high-growth or startup environment
- Have a Big 4 audit background — a strong signal of technical depth and audit-readiness standards
- Have managed or meaningfully coached more junior accountants and are ready for a role with direct reports
- Are comfortable owning accounting policies and SOPs end-to-end: writing them, maintaining them, and being accountable for how the team applies them
- Can move fluidly between reviewing your team's work and doing the work yourself — equally comfortable in a reconciliation spreadsheet and a review meeting
- Have experience designing and operating controls in a SOX environment
- Thrive in ambiguity and can structure work, reach defensible conclusions, and document them clearly even when the answer is not obvious
- Are energised by building from scratch rather than maintaining what already exists
- Have a clear point of view on how AI tools can eliminate low-value accounting work — and want to put that into practice
- Communicate clearly with non-accounting partners and can explain a complex position in plain language
Strong Candidates May Also
- Have public company accounting experience, including exposure to financial reporting cycles
- Bring deep expertise in two or more specialty areas: ASC 842 lease accounting, ASC 718 stock-based compensation, commissions accounting, payroll accounting, or fixed asset accounting
- Have led or played a significant role in an ERP implementation — particularly in a high-growth environment where accounting requirements were evolving mid-project
- Have experience building accounting infrastructure from the ground up: chart of accounts design, allocation methodology, or close cadence structure
- Bring familiarity with AI or infrastructure-heavy business models where cost attribution and capitalisation decisions are complex
- Have managed accounting through significant organisational change — new entity setup, geographic expansion, or business model evolution
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
$190,000—$230,000 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 looking for a Corporate Accountant to join Anthropic's Corporate Accounting Operations team. Reporting to the Director of Accounting Operations, you will lead a team of accountants while staying hands-on — reviewing and preparing close materials, setting technical standards, and owning your own portfolio of accounts through close. This is a build role. You will write and own the policies and SOPs your team operates against, design the controls framework, and continuously improve the processes underneath it — including using Claude and other tools to automate work that doesn't need to be manual. We are looking for someone who has done this before: built accounting infrastructure from scratch in high-growth environments and wants to do it again at one of the most important companies in the world.
Responsibilities
Close Operations:
- Own a portfolio of accounts through month-end and quarter-end close — including reconciliations, journal entries, and variance commentary
- Drive close acceleration by identifying bottlenecks and implementing process changes that reduce cycle time without sacrificing accuracy
- Ensure all close deliverables are consistently audit-ready, with clear documentation of positions and supporting evidence
- Oversee SOX control preparation and execution across your accounts; review control evidence and own timely remediation of any gaps
Technical Accounting & Policy:
- Write, own, and maintain technical accounting policies and SOPs across your domain — drafting, evolving, and operationalising them as the business changes
- Review technical accounting memos prepared by your team; ensure conclusions are well-supported and consistent with US GAAP
- Collaborate with Technical Accounting on new or evolving standards and translate guidance into procedures the team can execute
- Own external audit responses within your domain; ensure timely delivery of supporting schedules and audit-ready workpapers
Process Improvement & Automation:
- Identify repetitive, rules-based tasks across the team's workflows and build scalable solutions — including leveraging Claude — to automate or replace them
- Document workflows and controls in a way that supports knowledge transfer, audit evidence, and system scalability
- Contribute to ERP and systems implementations, translating accounting requirements into clear specifications and test criteria
Cross-Functional Partnership:
- Partner with Finance & Strategy, Tax, People Operations, Procurement, and Facilities to keep accounting aligned with business activity in real time
- Translate complex accounting positions into plain language for non-finance stakeholders
- Support new entity setup and geographic expansion by establishing accounting processes for new jurisdictions as Anthropic grows
Team Leadership & Review:
- Coach and develop a team of highly agile performers — providing timely, specific feedback that raises the technical and operational bar over time
- Hire and onboard accountants as the team grows; set clear expectations and build a culture of precision and continuous improvement
- Serve as the first escalation point for complex transactions and accounting judgments across your team's workstreams
Areas Of Experience Include
- Close management and acceleration; process improvement; SOX control design and operation
- Real estate and lease accounting (ASC 842); fixed assets, capitalisation policy, and depreciation
- Payroll accounting; stock-based compensation (ASC 718); commissions (ASC 340-40); contingent worker accounting
- Cash and investments; debt accounting; IDSE, Intangibles, prepaids, accruals, and period-end cut-off controls
You May Be a Good Fit If You
- Hold an active CPA licence
- Have around 10 years of progressive accounting experience, combining public company experience (in audit or in-house) with time at a high-growth or startup environment
- Have a Big 4 audit background — a strong signal of technical depth and audit-readiness standards
- Have managed or meaningfully coached more junior accountants and are ready for a role with direct reports
- Are comfortable owning accounting policies and SOPs end-to-end: writing them, maintaining them, and being accountable for how the team applies them
- Can move fluidly between reviewing your team's work and doing the work yourself — equally comfortable in a reconciliation spreadsheet and a review meeting
- Have experience designing and operating controls in a SOX environment
- Thrive in ambiguity and can structure work, reach defensible conclusions, and document them clearly even when the answer is not obvious
- Are energised by building from scratch rather than maintaining what already exists
- Have a clear point of view on how AI tools can eliminate low-value accounting work — and want to put that into practice
- Communicate clearly with non-accounting partners and can explain a complex position in plain language
Strong Candidates May Also
- Have public company accounting experience, including exposure to financial reporting cycles
- Bring deep expertise in two or more specialty areas: ASC 842 lease accounting, ASC 718 stock-based compensation, commissions accounting, payroll accounting, or fixed asset accounting
- Have led or played a significant role in an ERP implementation — particularly in a high-growth environment where accounting requirements were evolving mid-project
- Have experience building accounting infrastructure from the ground up: chart of accounts design, allocation methodology, or close cadence structure
- Bring familiarity with AI or infrastructure-heavy business models where cost attribution and capitalisation decisions are complex
- Have managed accounting through significant organisational change — new entity setup, geographic expansion, or business model evolution
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
$190,000—$230,000 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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Which companies sponsor visas for accountants in Washington?
Microsoft, Amazon, Boeing, and Expedia are among the largest visa sponsors for accounting roles in Washington, based on Department of Labor LCA disclosure data. Regional employers including Starbucks, Nordstrom, and major healthcare systems such as Providence and MultiCare also have established sponsorship track records. National accounting firms with Seattle offices, including Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, and EY, regularly sponsor H-1B petitions for audit and tax professionals.
Which visa types are most common for accountant roles in Washington?
The H-1B is the most common visa category for accountants in Washington, as accounting roles requiring a bachelor's degree in accounting or a related field generally meet the specialty occupation standard. CPAs and senior tax professionals sometimes qualify for the O-1A if they have demonstrated exceptional achievement. Accountants from Canada and Mexico may also pursue TN status under the USMCA, which lists accountants as an eligible occupation and does not require a cap lottery.
Which cities in Washington have the most accountant sponsorship jobs?
Seattle and its surrounding metro, including Bellevue, Redmond, and Kirkland, account for the overwhelming majority of accountant visa sponsorship opportunities in Washington. The Eastside tech corridor alone, anchored by Microsoft's Redmond campus and Amazon's Bellevue expansion, generates significant demand for financial reporting and tax compliance professionals. Spokane and Tacoma have smaller but active markets, particularly tied to healthcare systems and regional government contractors.
How to find accountant visa sponsorship jobs in Washington?
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically by visa sponsorship availability, making it straightforward to identify Washington employers actively hiring accountants who need work authorization. Search by role and state to surface positions at tech companies, accounting firms, and multinationals across the Seattle metro and Eastside. Filtering by sponsorship type, such as H-1B or TN, helps narrow results to employers whose hiring patterns align with your visa situation.
Are there state-specific considerations for accountants seeking sponsorship in Washington?
Washington has no state income tax, which makes it a competitive location for employers recruiting internationally and simplifies payroll compliance for sponsored workers. Employers must still meet the Department of Labor's prevailing wage requirements for the specific accounting role and geographic area when filing an LCA. Washington's large concentration of Big Tech firms means many accounting roles are embedded in fast-moving finance teams, and CPA licensure, while not required for H-1B sponsorship, is commonly preferred by employers in the region.
What is the prevailing wage for sponsored accountant jobs in Washington?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.
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