Cerebras

Director, Strategic Finance - Corporate FP&A

Sunnyvale, CA. Posted 5 months ago

The role

You will create the corporate FP&A operating system, including long-range planning, forecasting, and executive reporting. You will act as a player-coach to build financial infrastructure and partner with G&A leadership.

What you will do

  • Own company-wide corporate FP&A including the company model and annual planning
  • Lead monthly forecasting, revenue forecasting, and G&A budgeting
  • Manage headcount and spend management
  • Provide Board reporting and public-company reporting support
  • Serve as the primary finance partner to G&A leadership
  • Develop KPIs, scorecards, dashboards, and analytical frameworks
  • Conduct analysis to support investment decisions and capital allocation
  • Build automation and tooling to compound output for a small team
  • Drive improvements in financial systems and AI-enabled workflows

Required qualifications

  • 15+ years of total experience ideally across corporate FP&A, strategic finance, or adjacent roles
  • Corporate FP&A leadership experience
  • Strong financial modeling skills
  • Proven G&A and executive-facing partnership
  • Player-coach systems thinker
  • High agency
  • Clear executive communication

Nice to have

  • Technical fluency beyond spreadsheets including Excel, PowerPoint, SQL, Python, AI tools, and planning or BI tooling
  • Experience in hardware, semiconductor, infrastructure, or other complex businesses
  • Time at a public, newly public, or high-growth company
  • Experience with performance management, scorecards, dashboarding, and operating leverage analysis
  • Fluency with planning, ERP, and BI systems such as NetSuite, Oracle, or Looker
  • Strong AI affinity

Benefits

  • Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU
  • Publish and open source cutting-edge AI research
  • Work on one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world
  • Job stability with startup vitality
  • Simple, non-corporate work culture

About the company

Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip. The company works with leading model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups.