Head of APAC Accounting
AnthropicAbout 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
Anthropic is seeking an APAC Accounting Lead to build and run our regional Corporate Accounting function. This is the senior Controllership role for Asia Pacific, owning end-to-end accounting and finance operations for all APAC legal entities across Statutory Accounting and External Reporting, International Payroll, Procure to Pay, and regional Finance Systems. Reporting to the Head of International Accounting in Dublin, you will set the multi-year strategy for how we scale our financial control environment across the region, build and lead the team that delivers it, and act as the senior finance point of contact for APAC entity boards, external auditors, and outsourced service providers.
This is a rare opportunity to define how a frontier AI company runs Controllership across one of its fastest-growing regions, with a mandate to use Claude and AI tooling to reimagine how regional accounting work gets done. The successful candidate will be comfortable operating as a hands-on regional controller in the near term while designing the organisation, processes, and systems required to support a rapidly expanding entity footprint.
Responsibilities
Regional Controllership and Operations
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- Own the APAC Corporate Accounting function end to end and be accountable for the accuracy, timeliness, and control of all regional financial reporting
- Own statutory financial statements, local audits, board reporting, and corporate secretarial filings for all APAC legal entities, acting as the primary relationship owner for external auditors
- Be accountable for the APAC month-end close and consolidation into the global group, including journals, intercompany, reconciliations, and flux review
- Own regional execution of the intercompany and transfer pricing operating model in partnership with global Tax
- Own regional delivery of International Payroll and Procure to Pay in partnership with the global functional leads, and own the associated regional control framework
- Own regional regulatory and statistical reporting obligations, acting as the regional finance point of contact for local statutory authorities in partnership with Legal and Complia
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