Head of APAC Accounting

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 Anthropic is seeking an APAC Accounting Lead to build and run our regional Corporate Accounting function. This is the senior Controllership role for Asia Pacific, owning end-to-end accounting and finance operations for all APAC legal entities across Statutory Accounting and External Reporting, International Payroll, Procure to Pay, and regional Finance Systems. Reporting to the Head of International Accounting in Dublin, you will set the multi-year strategy for how we scale our financial control environment across the region, build and lead the team that delivers it, and act as the senior finance point of contact for APAC entity boards, external auditors, and outsourced service providers. This is a rare opportunity to define how a frontier AI company runs Controllership across one of its fastest-growing regions, with a mandate to use Claude and AI tooling to reimagine how regional accounting work gets done. The successful candidate will be comfortable operating as a hands-on regional controller in the near term while designing the organisation, processes, and systems required to support a rapidly expanding entity footprint. Responsibilities Regional Controllership and Operations Own the APAC Corporate Accounting function end to end and be accountable for the accuracy, timeliness, and control of all regional financial reporting Own statutory financial statements, local audits, board reporting, and corporate secretarial filings for all APAC legal entities, acting as the primary relationship owner for external auditors Be accountable for the APAC month-end close and consolidation into the global group, including journals, intercompany, reconciliations, and flux review Own regional execution of the intercompany and transfer pricing operating model in partnership with global Tax Own regional delivery of International Payroll and Procure to Pay in partnership with the global functional leads, and own the associated regional control framework Own regional regulatory and statistical reporting obligations, acting as the regional finance point of contact for local statutory authorities in partnership with Legal and Compliance Team Building and Leadership Build, lead, and develop a high-performing regional accounting and finance operations team across multiple APAC locations Define the regional organisation design and hiring plan as the entity footprint grows, and own the business case for incremental headcount Manage the regional outsourced accounting, payroll, and Procure to Pay provider relationships, including the transition path between outsourced and in-house delivery Systems, Controls, and AI Partner with global Finance Systems on the regional deployment and continuous improvement of the core finance platform stack, owning regional requirements, data integrity, and user acceptance Design and operate the regional internal control framework and prepare the region for future SOX and public-company readiness Drive automation and the adoption of Claude and AI tooling across APAC accounting processes in a controlled, audit-ready manner Strategic Partnership Set the vision and multi-year roadmap for APAC accounting operations and partner with global Controllership and CAO leadership to align this with the global plan Act as the senior APAC Controllership partner to regional General Managers, Country Managers, and functional leaders, and represent the function externally with Big 4 audit and advisory firms and regional finance networks Partner with global Tax and Treasury on direct and indirect tax compliance (including GST and withholding taxes), regional cash management, funding, and capita