Fireworks
Compute Financial Analyst
San Mateo, Remote. Posted a month ago
The role
This person will build and run the accounting, allocation, and reporting for compute cost of revenue. They will partner with various teams to ensure compute costs are captured, classified, and reported accurately.
What you will do
- Support the monthly close for compute cost of revenue including journal entries, accruals, and prepaid amortization.
- Perform reconciliations of GPU utilization data to CSP invoices, contracted capacity, and the general ledger.
- Prepare and maintain prepaid cloud balance schedules.
- Support the accounting for complex vendor and partnership arrangements.
- Evaluate the accounting treatment of new vendor agreements and capacity commitments.
- Work with Data and Analytics teams to build and validate cost and utilization data pipelines.
- Contribute to technical accounting memos supporting cost of revenue and capitalization conclusions.
- Support external audits by preparing cost schedules and responses to auditor inquiries.
- Identify opportunities to automate and scale cost accounting processes.
Required qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- 3–6 years of relevant accounting or finance experience, including meaningful experience in cost accounting or cost of revenue.
- Familiarity with cost allocation concepts, including direct cost attribution and overhead allocation.
- Comfort working with large datasets and reconciling information across multiple systems.
- Advanced Excel/Google Sheets skills.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- Builder mindset.
- Strong communication skills.
Nice to have
- CPA or CPA candidate
- Experience in cloud computing, AI infrastructure, SaaS, or other usage/consumption-based business models
- Experience evaluating vendor contracts and committed purchase arrangements
- Experience with NetSuite or another major ERP system
- SQL or experience working directly with data warehouses
About the company
Fireworks is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion that provides a platform for specialized intelligence, enabling companies to build, train, and serve AI models.