Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
A quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.
About the role
Join the Tax Technology team within Finance Systems.
Responsible for the day-to-day running of Anthropic's tax systems: intake and triage of requests, keeping tax configuration correct, testing changes, analyzing tax data, and producing evidence for tax controls.
Early hire on a small team; broad role by design.
Report to the Tax Technology Lead and work with vendors, auditors, Billing Engineering, Accounting, and the Tax & Treasury team.
Responsibilities
Intake & Triage: own the queue of tax systems requests from intake through resolution or escalation.
Tax Configuration: make and document tax configuration changes including product taxability mapping, registrations, and exemption and refund rules; build runbooks and completeness checks.
Testing & Change Management: design and run UAT for tax and billing changes, keep test evidence, give tax sign-off.
Tax Data Analysis: write SQL against the data warehouse to build reconciliations and tie-outs, investigate discrepancies.
Controls & Evidence: prepare ITGC evidence, run SOX and IPE evidence cycle, support auditor walkthroughs.
Cross Functional Collaboration: act as tax systems point of contact for Billing Engineering, Accounting, and Product.
Process Improvement & AI Tools: use Claude and other AI tools to build reliable queries, tools, and documentation.
Requirements
Hands-on experience configuring or supporting an enterprise tax engine, tax provision tooling, or a billing or ERP system in a tax-facing role.
Can read and write SQL to build deterministic reconciliations and trace discrepancies.
Skilled at translating tax requirements into configuration, test cases, and clear requests for engineering teams.
Experience with user acceptance testing on a finance systems project.
Understanding of SOX, ITGC, and IPE controls; can produce evidence auditors accept.
Cross-functional experience and clear communication with non-technical colleagues.
Comfortable in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
Preferred
7+ years of experience in tax operations, tax technology, or finance systems.
Deep practical knowledge of indirect and/or direct tax (sales and use tax, VAT/GST, corporate income tax, transfer pricing, withholding, property tax, R&D credits).
Python and data warehouse experience.
Experience with tax setup on the purchasing side of an ERP.
Experience with marketplace facilitator rules or usage-based billing.
Familiarity with e-invoicing and real-time tax reporting outside the US.
Experience standing up a recurring controls evidence cycle.
Track record of using Claude or other AI tools to speed up finance or tax work.