Strategic Finance, GTM - Post Sales

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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

We are seeking a Strategic Finance, GTM member to join our Finance team at Anthropic to partner with sales counterparts. In this role, you will be a key partner to our go-to-market teams in post sales roles, providing financial expertise and guidance to support strategic decision-making. As we continue to grow, you will play a crucial role in analyzing financial data, building models, and delivering insights to drive informed business decisions. This role will work closely with cross-functional teams and collaborate with other members of the finance organization to align go-to-market strategies with broader financial considerations.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert guidance and recommendations to post-sales stakeholders on financial strategies, investments, and resource allocation decisions, leveraging an in-depth understanding of the company's financials
• Partner cross-functionally to drive analysis, build financial models, and recommend business decisions across a variety of areas, such as renewals and expansion forecasting, customer retention economics, cost-to-serve, and headcount and capacity planning
• Prepare and deliver clear, concise, and insightful financial reports and analyses to support planning cycles, business reviews, cost tracking and investment cases for post-sales programs
• Establish and implement reporting dashboards and scorecards to track key operational and financial metrics across the post-sales customer lifecycle
• Collaborate with other members of strategic finance, FP&A, revenue operations, and accounting counterparts, helping to align GTM plans with broader financial strategies and considerations

Requirements

• Experience in strategic finance, sales or GTM finance, FP&A, private equity, growth equity, venture capital, consulting, or investment banking
• Exceptional analytical skills with an ability to synthesize data into compelling insights and develop / maintain complex financial operating models
• Extraordinary problem-solving and critical thinking abilities to navigate complex financial challenges
• Comfort working cross-functionally and are adept at communicating complex financial information to non-finance audiences
• 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, including time partnering directly with GTM or post-sales organizations such as Customer Success, Professional Services, or Support
• Experience with consumption-based, usage-based, and/or complex enterprise business models

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.