Financial Data and Controls Lead, Billing Platform

The shape of it

In the posting’s own words

This is a foundational role and the first hire of its kind on the team. You'll lead a working group of the reconciliation and controls owners from each billing engineering team, and you'll set the approach they follow. You'll work closely with Finance Systems, Accounting, Internal Audit, and Data Engineering.

What it asks for · 8

• Experience building or owning a financial ledger, billing reconciliation, or cash reconciliation system end to end, one that Accounting relied on to close the books
• Hands-on SQL skills strong enough to take two messy datasets (for example usage events and invoices), match them, find the breaks, and explain the root cause
• Accounting domain knowledge (order to cash, month-end close, and materiality) sufficient to tell which billing changes have financial impact
• Experience working with SOX and Internal Audit teams on IT application controls, detective controls, transaction monitoring, functional test evidence, and auditor walkthroughs
• Experience defining data contracts between billing or product systems and finance systems such as the ERP, general ledger, or revenue recognition
• Track record of driving work across Engineering, Finance, Accounting, and Audit without direct authority
• Ability to explain technical issues to Finance and auditors in their terms, and financial risk to engineers in theirs
• Interest in AI and a commitment to Anthropic's mission of building safe, beneficial AI systems

Also a plus

• Background as a backend, data, or analytics engineer who built a financial ledger or cash reconciliation system from scratch
• Experience running these systems under public company reporting requirements, and scaling them as the company grew
• Experience with usage-based or consumption billing
• Experience with multi-party billing, such as marketplaces, or app stores
• Experience turning manual checks into automated verifiers with engineering teams
• Experience remediating a control deficiency, or standing up a controls program while the underlying systems were changing
• A track record of using Claude or other AI tools to automate reconciliation, testing, or evidence collection, with checks that hold up to review
• Experience with billing and finance tools such as Stripe, Metronome, Zuora, NetSuite, or Workday Financials

What the job covers

• Own reconciliation and accuracy checks for critical billing data (quantity, price, discounts, and invoices) across our product platform, third-party billing and payment providers, app stores, cloud marketplaces, and in-house systems
• Design and run detective controls that catch billing errors before they reach the accounting books
• Partner with billing engineering teams to turn repeat checks into automated verifiers
• Review billing changes that have financial impact, flag the ones that touch SOX or IT application controls (ITACs), and make sure functional test evidence is in place
• Make SOX review a standard, lightweight step in how billing changes ship, treated like a security review, so launches are not delayed by it
• Own the end-to-end test strategy and audit evidence for those changes, working with Finance Systems, Data Engineering, Accounting, and Internal Audit
• Triage billing errors, prioritize backfills and fixes with the owning teams, and track materiality over time
• Define and maintain the data contracts between billing and finance systems, so downstream teams can find and trust the data they need
• Lead the working group of reconciliation and controls owners across billing engineering teams, through influence and not reporting lines
• Act as the Billing owner, alongside Accounting and Finance Systems, for translating the product and pricing roadmap into financial impact, test strategy, and process updates

Tools and skills named

Words the posting leans on

• billing24×
• systems17×
• controls12×
• data12×
• finance10×
• experience9×
• financial9×
• accounting8×
• engineering8×
• reconciliation8×
• audit6×
• checks5×
• evidence5×
• finance systems5×
• cash4×
• engineer4×

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