Senior Analyst, Travel & Expense

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>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.</p></div><h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2> <p>As a Senior Analyst, Travel &amp; Expense, you will run the day-to-day financial controls, audit program, and executive reporting behind Anthropic's T&amp;E function. T&amp;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.</p> <p>You will report to the Head of Travel &amp; Expense in Finance Operations and work daily with Accounting, Tax, Payroll, Talent, Security, Legal, Finance Systems and Administrative Business Partners.</p> <h2><strong>Responsibilities</strong></h2> <h3><strong>Controls &amp; SOX Compliance</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Own the day-to-day operation of key T&amp;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&amp;E, who owns the overall T&amp;E process</li> <li>Maintain the T&amp;E process narratives and risk and control matrix, and keep them current as systems and policies change</li> <li>Ensure correct GL coding and complete, accurate month-end reconciliations across Navan, Brex, and Workday, and support close, flux analysis, and accruals</li> <li>Act as the preparer for T&amp;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&amp;E</li> </ul> <h3><strong>International Expansion Controls</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Set up and maintain entity-level coding and approval flows in Brex and Navan as new legal entities and countries come online</li> <li>Document and operationalize country-specific rules for per diems, VAT reclaim, non-USD cards, receipt requirements, and local tax treatment</li> <li>Partner with Tax, Payroll, and Global Mobility to ensure compliance</li> <li>Support accurate intercompany treatment of T&amp;E costs across entities</li> </ul> <h3><strong>T&amp;E Audit Program</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Help design, bui