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full-timeSenior Analyst, Travel & Expense
Anthropic · San Francisco, CA
Anthropic is a company dedicated to building safe, interpretable and steerable artificial intelligence systems, bringing together researchers, engineers, policy experts and business leaders to advance beneficial AI. In the Senior Analyst, Travel & Expense role, you will oversee the day‑to‑day financial controls that support Anthropic’s growing travel and expense program, which runs on Navan, Brex and Workday across multiple legal entities. Your responsibilities include maintaining SOX‑compliant processes, preparing narratives and risk‑control matrices, ensuring accurate GL coding and month‑end reconciliations, and serving as the primary contact for internal and external auditors. You will also design and operate a risk‑based audit program, set up entity‑level approval flows for new countries, document local per‑diems, VAT reclaim and tax rules, and partner with Tax, Payroll and Global Mobility to ensure compliance. Additionally, you will help build dashboards and reporting on policy exceptions, explore automation with Claude, and manage transaction‑level review and receipt follow‑up as volume scales. The position suits candidates with extensive experience in travel and expense, corporate accounting or internal audit, strong SOX or controls background, deep familiarity with Navan, Brex and ERP integrations, and solid analytical and discretion skills.
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 As a Senior Analyst, Travel & Expense, you will run the day-to-day financial controls, audit program, and executive reporting behind Anthropic's T&E function. T&E touches every employee, every legal entity, and every executive, and it runs on Navan, Brex, and negotiated supplier agreements. Spend and transaction volume have grown several-fold in the past six quarters, and the controls need to scale to meet a public-company standard. You will report to the Head of Travel & Expense in Finance Operations and work daily with Accounting, Tax, Payroll, Talent, Security, Legal, Finance Systems and Administrative Business Partners. Responsibilities Controls & SOX Compliance Own the day-to-day operation of key T&E controls, including approvals, card issuance and spend limits, segregation of duties, and policy exceptions, within the control framework set by the Head of T&E, who owns the overall T&E process Maintain the T&E process narratives and risk and control matrix, and keep them current as systems and policies change Ensure correct GL coding and complete, accurate month-end reconciliations across Navan, Brex, and Workday, and support close, flux analysis, and accruals Act as the preparer for T&E controls and the day-to-day contact for internal and external auditors: gather and retain evidence, support walkthroughs and sample requests, and track remediation, escalating significant issues to the Head of T&E International Expansion Controls Set up and maintain entity-level coding and approval flows in Brex and Navan as new legal entities and countries come online Document and operationalize country-specific rules for per diems, VAT reclaim, non-USD cards, receipt requirements, and local tax treatment Partner with Tax, Payroll, and Global Mobility to ensure compliance Support accurate intercompany treatment of T&E costs across entities T&E Audit Program Help design, build, and run a risk-based audit program covering sampling, anomaly detection, misuse escalation, and remediation tracking Define and monitor pre-spend rules, duplicate and split-transaction checks, and receipt and 30-day submission compliance Build dashboards and reporting on policy compliance, exceptions, and control performance for Finance leadership Partner with the Head of T&E to deploy Claude to review transactions, flag policy exceptions, and automate recurring reporting Program Operations Own day-to-day T&E operations, supporting the growing volume of travel and expense activity and platform configuration and automation, so operations keep running without pulling focus from controls Own transaction-level review and receipt follow-up, and help shape what should be automated rather than staffed Partner with Benefits, Payroll and Legal to ensure the T&E program is compliant with relevant local and country requirements Preferred qualifications 7+ years of experience in travel and expense, corporate accounting, internal audit, or finance operations, ideally at a high-growth technology company Hands-on SOX or internal-controls experience: writing process narratives, testing or operating key controls, and working with external auditors Strong accounting fundamentals, including GL coding, account reconciliations, accruals, and month-end close support Deep platform expertise in Navan and/or comparable TMC platforms, plus Brex or equivalent expense management tools, and working knowledge of ERP integrations (Workday preferred) Strong analytical skills: comfort with large transaction datasets, sampling methods, and anomaly detection Sound judgment and discretion with sensitive information, and the ability to work credibly with senior executives and their support teams Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain a control or an exception to Finance leaders, auditors, and employees An AI-curious, builder mindset: experience automating finance workflows with AI tools, or real enthusiasm for doing so, and comfort creating structure where none exists CPA, CIA, or equivalent certification Experience with multi-entity, multi-currency environments, including per diem rules, VAT reclaim, and cross-border tax considerations Experience with pre-IPO or newly public company readiness M&A integration experience a huge plus 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 educ
| Role | Senior Analyst, Travel & Expense |
|---|---|
| Company | Anthropic |
| Location | San Francisco, CA |
| Type | full-time |
| Compensation | Not disclosed |
| Posted | 2026-10-08 |
| Deadline | Rolling |
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