Finance & Strategy, Datacenter FP&A

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.

Key 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

Minimum qualifications

• 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
• 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

Preferred qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in strategic finance, infrastructure investment, FP&A, private equity, consulting, or investment banking
• 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