Senior Business Systems Analyst, Finance Systems (Assets & Lease Management)

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About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The team includes researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Systems Analyst to join the Finance Systems team. Building on a recent go-live on Workday Financials, you will serve as the internal functional lead for Workday Business Assets and Lease Management, owning the design and configuration of systems and processes that govern the full lifecycle of Anthropic's assets and leases — from compute and data center infrastructure to the global real estate portfolio. The role sits at the intersection of finance domain expertise and technical implementation and partners with implementation partners, engineering teams, and finance stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the internal functional lead for Workday Business Assets: own configuration of asset books, asset classes, useful lives, depreciation profiles, capitalization rules, and CIP (construction in progress) tracking; drive design decisions, validate configurations, and ensure business requirements are met.
• Own end-to-end lease administration and lease accounting across Workday and dedicated lease management platforms for real estate and infrastructure/compute leases — including lease classification, right-of-use assets and lease liabilities, amortization schedules, modifications and remeasurements, and ASC 842 disclosure reporting.
• Partner with Compute, Data Infrastructure, Procurement, Accounting, and other stakeholders to manage high-value technology infrastructure assets from procurement through capitalization, transfers, and retirement; design componentization, tagging, and tracking approaches for data center and compute hardware at scale with asset records structured for international regulatory, statutory, and cross-border compliance.
• Support the broader Workday Financials platform as a secondary focus, ensuring FDM alignment (Worktags, account posting rules, dimensional hierarchies) for asset and lease transactions; partner with consultants on future phases or net-new implementations impacting assets and leases.
• Build and maintain asset rollforwards, depreciation forecasts, lease disclosure schedules, and reconciliations; support month-end and quarter-end close activities for fixed assets and leases, managing defects and data quality issues.
• Collaborate with Integrations, Security, and Financials configuration teams to align master data, journals, controls, and service level agreements; partner with Real Estate & Workplace, Legal, FP&A, and Tax on the lease pipeline and capital planning.
• Work with engineering teams and business stakeholders to drive expansion and adoption of the Workday platform (e.g., biannual releases), identifying opportunities for process improvement and automation across the asset and lease lifecycle.

Requirements / Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in finance systems, ERP implementation, or business systems analysis roles, with at least 5 years of hands-on Workday Financials experience (including Business Assets), lease management, inventory or asset management software.
• Deep expertise in Workday Business Assets configuration, including asset books, depreciation methods, capitalization thresholds, CIP tracking, mass asset transactions, transfers, and disposals.
• Hands-on experience with lease accounting under ASC 842 in major lease management platforms (examples cited: CoStar, FinQuery/LeaseQuery, Visual Lease).
• Strong understanding of fixed asset accounting processes, including capitalization policies, useful life determination, impairment assessment, and asset-level reconciliation to the general ledger, along with an understanding of SOX and compliance requirements.
• Experience managing high-value technology infrastructure assets (data centers, compute hardware, networking equipment) and operational realities of tracking physical assets at scale.
• Experience translating complex business requirements into technical solutions and working across finance and technical teams.
• Experience with full ERP implementation lifecycles: requirements gathering, configuration, testing, data migration, cutover planning, and hypercare.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills; comfortable working in fast-paced, high-growth environments with evolving requirements and tight timelines.

Strong candidates may also have

• CPA certification or strong accounting/finance background; understanding of GAAP/IFRS reporting (including IFRS 16).
• Experience with lease portfolios and dedicated platforms (FinQuery/LeaseQuery, Visual Lease, CoStar).
• Experience assessing embedded leases within cloud, hosting, and service contracts under ASC 842.
• Experience with Workday FDM design, Prism Analytics, or Accounting Center for asset and lease journal automation.
• Technical familiarity with Claude suite, SQL, Workday WQL/RaaS reporting, BigQuery, Workday Studio/Core Connector, and Python.
• Knowledge of SOX compliance requirements and internal controls for fixed asset and lease accounting cycles.
• Familiarity with Workday Procurement and Supply Chain, including PO-to-asset flows and supplier invoice integration points.
• Prior experience at high-growth technology companies scaling toward IPO readiness, ideally with significant capital expenditure programs.

Compensation

Annual Salary: $205,000 - $270,000 USD

Logistics

• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
• Location-based hybrid policy: staff expected to be in one of the offices at least 25% of the time; some roles may require more time in offices.
• Visa sponsorship: Anthropic states they do sponsor visas and retain an immigration lawyer, though sponsorship is not guaranteed for every role/candidate.

How we're different

Anthropic emphasizes large-scale, collaborative AI research with high impact, values communication skills, and hosts frequent research discussions. The company offers competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and an office environment for collaboration.