Senior Analyst, Travel & Expense

About the Role

As a Senior Analyst, Travel & Expense, you will run the day-to-day financial controls, audit program, and executive reporting behind Anthropic's T&E function. T&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.

You will report to the Head of Travel & Expense in Finance Operations and work daily with Accounting, Tax, Payroll, Talent, Security, Legal, Finance Systems and Administrative Business Partners.

Responsibilities

Controls & SOX Compliance

• Own the day-to-day operation of key T&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&E, who owns the overall T&E process
• Maintain the T&E process narratives and risk and control matrix, and keep them current as systems and policies change
• Ensure correct GL coding and complete, accurate month-end reconciliations across Navan, Brex, and Workday, and support close, flux analysis, and accruals
• Act as the preparer for T&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&E

International Expansion Controls

• Set up and maintain entity-level coding and approval flows in Brex and Navan as new legal entities and countries come online
• Document and operationalize country-specific rules for per diems, VAT reclaim, non-USD cards, receipt requirements, and local tax treatment
• Partner with Tax, Payroll, and Global Mobility to ensure compliance
• Support accurate intercompany treatment of T&E costs across entities

T&E Audit Program

• Help design, build, and run a risk-based audit program covering sampling, anomaly detection, misuse escalation, and remediation tracking
• Define and monitor pre-spend rules, duplicate and split-transaction checks, and receipt and 30-day submission compliance
• Build dashboards and reporting on policy compliance, exceptions, and control performance for Finance leadership
• Partner with the Head of T&E to deploy Claude to review transactions, flag policy exceptions, and automate recurring reporting

Program Operations

• Own day-to-day T&E operations, supporting the growing volume of travel and expense activity and platform configuration and automation, so operations keep running without pulling focus from controls
• Own transaction-level review and receipt follow-up, and help shape what should be automated rather than staffed
• Partner with Benefits, Payroll and Legal to ensure the T&E program is compliant with relevant local and country requirements

Preferred Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in travel and expense, corporate accounting, internal audit, or finance operations, ideally at a high-growth technology company
• Hands-on SOX or internal-controls experience: writing process narratives, testing or operating key controls, and working with external auditors
• Strong accounting fundamentals, including GL coding, account reconciliations, accruals, and month-end close support
• Deep platform expertise in Navan and/or comparable TMC platforms, plus Brex or equivalent expense management tools, and working knowledge of ERP integrations (Workday preferred)
• Strong analytical skills: comfort with large transaction datasets, sampling methods, and anomaly detection
• Sound judgment and discretion with sensitive information, and the ability to work credibly with senior executives and their support teams
• Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to explain a control or an exception to Finance leaders, auditors, and employees
• An AI-curious, builder mindset: experience automating finance workflows with AI tools, or real enthusiasm for doing so, and comfort creating structure where none exists
• CPA, CIA, or equivalent certification
• Experience with multi-entity, multi-currency environments, including per diem rules, VAT reclaim, and cross-border tax considerations
• Experience with pre-IPO or newly public company readiness
• M&A integration experience a huge plus

Annual Salary

The annual compensation range for this role is $190,000 to $230,000 USD.

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: Anthropic sponsors visas for some roles and candidates, and retains an immigration lawyer to help with this.

How We're Different

We believe that the highest-impact AI research will be big science. At Anthropic we work as a single cohesive team on just a few large-scale research efforts. We value impact, advancing our long-term goals of steerable, trustworthy AI, rather than working on smaller and more specific puzzles. We view AI research as an empirical science, which has as much in common with physics and biology as with traditional efforts in computer science. We greatly value communication skills.

Come Work With Us

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, optional equity donation matching, generous vacation and parental leave, flexible working hours, and a lovely office space in which to collaborate with colleagues.