International Accounting, APAC

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 International Accounting expert (APAC) to join our International Accounting team in Singapore. This role reports to our APAC Accounting Lead and is the first hire in our Singapore hub. In this pivotal role, you will build and implement the framework for local compliance across our APAC entities (Singapore, Japan, Korea, Australia and India), with an initial focus on Singapore, Japan and Korea, while flexibly adapting to our evolving needs as we scale. As a key contributor to establishing our regional accounting operations, you'll partner closely with our global teams while taking ownership of the processes and systems you help create. If you're looking for an opportunity to make a significant impact on the financial infrastructure of an innovative AI company at the forefront of safety, come join us in our mission to build cutting-edge, safe AI.

Responsibilities

• Build and implement frameworks for local compliance across our APAC entities, ensuring alignment with both local statutory requirements and global standards
• Establish and maintain frameworks for local financial statement review on a monthly basis, including local flux analysis and variance explanations
• Participate in the development and implementation of international finance policies, adapting existing global policies for regional requirements and establishing local approval workflows
• Execute monthly consolidation processes and eliminations across international entities, including journal entry preparation and booking, intercompany eliminations, and reconciliations, to ensure timely and accurate group-level reporting
• Manage intercompany transactions and develop frameworks to support global scaling, including transfer pricing documentation and compliance
• Handle foreign exchange (FX) transactions and develop monthly processes for currency consolidation and risk management
• Perform comprehensive reconciliations of balance sheet accounts, ensuring accuracy and completeness of financial records
• Support local statutory audits of the APAC entities, coordinating with external auditors and preparing comprehensive audit schedules and documentation
• Support tax compliance framework development and implementation across international jurisdictions
• Partner with US-based teams to ensure seamless integration of international operations with global financial processes
• Leverage technology and tools to drive