Finance & Strategy Lead, Deal Desk EMEA

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 an EMEA Finance & Strategy Lead to join our Finance team and play a pivotal role in shaping our strategy and operations in EMEA. In this strategic position, you will be a key partner to our go-to-market teams, providing financial expertise and guidance to support strategic decision-making across the region. You'll establish and scale our financial operations in EMEA while providing comprehensive financial insights to drive business growth and informed decision-making.

As our EMEA Finance & Strategy Lead, you will serve as the financial anchor for the EMEA region, building financial models, leading deal structuring, developing strategic frameworks, and partnering with cross-functional teams to optimize revenue performance. You'll establish scalable financial processes, including deal desk workflows as part of your broader responsibilities, and deliver critical insights to executives and stakeholders. This role combines strategic finance, operational excellence, and regional leadership to support our mission of developing safe and beneficial AI systems.

Responsibilities:

• Establish strong relationships with regional stakeholders to drive financial alignment and operational excellence
• Provide expert guidance, recommendations, and influence to go-to-market stakeholders on financial strategies, investments, and resource allocation decisions, leveraging an in-depth understanding of the company's financials 
• Establish and manage EMEA Deal Desk function as part of your broader strategic finance responsibilities by supporting sales teams on deal structuring, approval workflows, and best practices to accelerate deal cycles while maximizing business outcomes
• Partner cross-functionally to drive analysis, financial modeling, and recommend business decisions across a variety of areas, such as revenue goals, sales capacity planning, deal desk and marketing spend 
• Prepare and deliver clear, concise, and insightful financial reports, analyses, and forecasts, highlighting key trends, risks, and opportunities to facilitate informed decision-making to stakeholders and executives
• Collaborate with other members of strategic finance, FP&A, and accounting counterparts, helping to align go-to-market with broader financial strategies and considerations

You may be a good fit if you have:

• 12+ years of experience across strategic finance, go-to-market finance, private equity, growth equity, venture capital, consulting, and investment banking
• International finance experience with complex cross-border operations
• Exceptional analytical skills with an ability to synthesize data into compelling insights and develop/maintain complex business 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
• Excitement about working in a fast paced, dynamic environment and adapt well to change
• A bias towards action, strong work ethic, and have experience driving operational outcomes under tight timelines
• Strong relationship building, business judgment, process management, and communication skills
• Passion towards Anthropic's mission to build safe, transformative AI systems

Strong candidates may also have: 

• Experience working with both subscription and usage-based revenue models
• In-depth knowledge of EMEA market regulations and business practices
• History of building financial processes from the ground up in high-growth environments
• Experience in AI, ML, or related technologies
• Track record of scaling finance operations in rapidly growing organizations

The expected salary range for this position is:

Annual Salary:€230.000—€295.000 EUR

Logistics

Education requirements: We require at least a Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

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 ever