Sr. Manager, Cash Application

About the role

The Senior Manager, Cash Application will own the global cash‑application function within the Invoice‑to‑Cash organization, leading a small high‑leverage team, driving automation, defining KPIs/SLAs and ensuring accurate, timely cash and revenue reporting while scaling the operation to far higher volumes with minimal headcount growth.

About the company

Anthropic is a public benefit corporation based in San Francisco whose mission is to create reliable, interpretable and steerable AI systems that are safe and beneficial for users and society. The fast‑growing team includes researchers, engineers, policy experts and business leaders working on frontier AI research.

Requirements

• Experience managing a cash application or accounts receivable operations team—including hiring, coaching and performance management—in a high‑growth or high‑volume environment
• Hands‑on experience scaling a cash application function with flat headcount, delivering process and automation improvements with minimal oversight
• Experience implementing or optimizing a cash application/AR automation platform with measurable improvements to auto‑match rate, unapplied cash or payments processed per head
• Experience defining and reporting KPIs and SLAs for an operations team and using that reporting to run day‑to‑day
• Deep knowledge of end‑to‑end cash application across wires, ACH, credit card and lockbox, including remittance handling, short pays, deductions, unapplied cash and cash‑to‑AR reconciliation
• Experience maintaining cash application procedures, internal controls and working directly with internal or external auditors
• Hands‑on experience with an ERP such as NetSuite, Oracle or SAP and strong Excel or Google Sheets skills for analyzing large transaction datasets
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with ability to present performance data and recommendations to finance leadership and work effectively with finance and non‑finance partners
• 8+ years of progressive experience in cash application, accounts receivable, GL accounting or order‑to‑cash operations, including several years managing a team, ideally at a fast‑growing B2B SaaS or usage‑based billing company
• Experience as business owner or administrator of an AR automation platform (e.g., Tesorio, HighRadius, Billtrust, Growfin) configuring matching rules and shaping integration design
• Experience with Stripe, Salesforce and modern billing systems such as Zuora, and with high‑volume payment‑processor settlement reconciliation
• Experience applying cash across multiple legal entities, currencies and regions, and working with contractor or offshore team members
• Working knowledge of SOX controls and audit requirements as they relate to cash and accounts receivable
• Experience using Claude or other LLM‑based tools to remove manual work in a finance or AR setting and interest in building team habits
• Experience building capacity models that show how automation changes the relationship between transaction volume and headcount, and using them to justify automation investment
• Comfort with ambiguity, bias toward action and willingness to stay close to details while building for scale
• Passion for AI and interest in the responsible development of advanced systems