At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- San Mateo
About Fireworks AI
- Fireworks is the platform for specialized intelligence, enabling companies to build, train, and serve AI models tailored to their own data, workflows, and products. Founded by the team behind PyTorch and backed by AMD, Atreides, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, and TCV, Fireworks powers production AI with hundreds of state-of-the-art open models across text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal workloads. Today, Fireworks is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion, bringing together an ambitious, collaborative team that's building the future of enterprise AI.
About the role
- The Compute Financial Analyst will join the Accounting team to manage the accounting, allocation, and reporting for compute cost of revenue.
- This role involves turning GPU utilization data into accounting conclusions and building the schedules, reconciliations, and controls necessary for accurate cost reporting.
- The analyst will partner with Infrastructure, FP&A, Procurement, and Data teams to ensure compute costs are correctly captured and classified.
Responsibilities
- 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 and general ledger entries.
- Prepare and maintain prepaid cloud balance schedules and rollforwards tied to contract terms.
- Support accounting for complex vendor arrangements, including committed spend, revenue share, and SLA credits.
- Evaluate accounting treatment for new vendor agreements, including COGS vs. operating expense classification and ASC 842 lease assessments.
- Collaborate with Data and Analytics teams to build and validate cost and utilization data pipelines.
- Contribute to technical accounting memos regarding cost of revenue and capitalization conclusions.
- Support external audits by preparing schedules, contract samples, and responding to inquiries.
- Identify opportunities to automate and scale cost accounting processes and reporting.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- 3–6 years of relevant accounting or finance experience, including 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 attention to detail.
- Builder mindset for creating and improving processes in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong communication skills for translating accounting requirements to non-accounting stakeholders.
Preferred qualifications
- CPA or CPA candidate
- Experience in cloud computing, AI infrastructure, SaaS, or 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
Skills
- NetSuite
- Excel
- Google Sheets
- SQL
- ASC 842
