Corporate Finance & Strategy, Strategic Transactions

Anthropic$190K — $240K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of M&A experience in investment banking, private equity, corporate development, or strategic finance
  • Expertise in building acquisition models and pro forma forecasts
  • Strong collaborator with the ability to build trust across teams
  • Proficient communicator, with experience presenting to Finance leadership
  • Ability to thrive in fast-paced environments and navigate ambiguity
  • Proven track record of developing new processes and templates
  • Passion for safe, beneficial AI aligned with Anthropic's mission

Responsibilities

  • Lead financial due diligence on M&A and strategic transactions
  • Build deal models and pro forma forecasts for transactions
  • Collaborate with Corporate Development and Accounting teams on findings and integrations
  • Translate deal impacts into forecasts and present analyses to Finance leadership
  • Create templates, playbooks, and processes for scalable deal work

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with office presence expected 25% of the time
  • Visa sponsorship support available
  • Encouragement to apply even if not meeting all qualifications
  • Focus on diverse representation and inclusion in hiring
  • Commitment to candidate safety against potential scams
Full Job Description
About the role

Our Corporate Finance & Strategy team serves as a strategic partner to Anthropic's leadership, driving data-informed decisions that shape our company's future. We are seeking a professional to support Anthropic's M&A and strategic transaction activity. In this role, you will lead the financial due diligence of acquisition targets and own the Finance & Strategy view of each deal: forecasting the target's business, testing the assumptions behind the deal, and translating its impact into Anthropic's forecast and plan.

You'll partner with a broad group of cross-functional stakeholders throughout the deal process, including Corporate Development, Accounting, R&D, People, and more. The role suits someone who has seen transactions from more than one vantage point, whether as an investor, a banker, or an operator. You'll give leadership a clear view of what each deal means for Anthropic's financials, and build the models, frameworks, and playbooks that keep this work consistent from one transaction to the next, leveraging Claude as a core part of your toolkit.
Key responsibilities
  • Lead Finance & Strategy's financial due diligence on M&A and other strategic transactions: assess the target's historical performance and forecast, pressure-test the assumptions behind the deal, and surface the risks that matter for the decision
  • Build the deal model and pro forma forecast for each transaction, and evaluate deal economics and structuring options
  • Partner with Corporate Development on the deal case, Accounting on diligence findings and post-close integration, and the sponsoring business team on operating assumptions, carrying what you learn into the model
  • Translate each deal's impact into Anthropic's forecast and plan, and present your analysis and recommendations to Finance leadership
  • Build the templates, playbooks, and processes that make deal work repeatable, and use Claude to raise the rigor and pace of that work over time
Minimum qualifications
  • 7+ years of experience in M&A-related roles across investment banking, private equity, growth equity, venture capital, corporate development, or strategic finance
  • Hands-on experience building acquisition models and pro forma forecasts from scratch, with mastery of how a transaction flows through the three financial statements
  • Strong collaborator who builds trust quickly across large, cross-functional deal teams
  • Clear, proactive communication, including experience presenting to Finance leadership
  • Thrives in fast-paced, dynamic environments and navigates ambiguity with confidence
  • Track record of building new processes, templates, and playbooks
  • Passion for Anthropic's mission of building safe, beneficial AI
Preferred qualifications
  • MBA, CFA, or CPA
  • Experience on both the investing / advisory and operating sides of transactions
  • M&A experience at a public company, with an understanding of downstream reporting impacts
  • Experience using Claude or similar AI tools to raise both the quality and the efficiency of your work


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-$240,000 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 [redacted].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.

About Anthropic

Anthropic is an artificial intelligence research lab that focuses on developing AI systems that are safe, reliable, and trustworthy. The company was founded in 2019 by Dr. Yoshua Bengio, a leading AI researcher and winner of the Turing Award. Anthropic's research is focused on developing AI systems that can learn from small amounts of data, reason about complex systems, and interact with humans in a natural way. The company is based in New York City and has a team of experienced AI researchers and engineers.
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50 employees
Industry
Founded
2019

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