Compute Financial Analyst

Fireworks AI; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Fireworks AI is seeking a Financial Compute Analyst to join the Accounting team. You will build, run, and improve the accounting for compute cost of revenue as the company scales, reconciling GPU utilization with CSP invoices and the general ledger.

This hands-on role partners with Infrastructure, FP&A, Procurement, and Data teams to ensure accurate periodization and reporting. You will support monthly closes, prepare journal entries, and develop schedules to maintain auditable, defense-ready

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of accounting or finance experience, with cost accounting exposure.
• Experience evaluating vendor contracts and committed purchase arrangements, translating terms into accounting treatment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Familiarity with cost allocation concepts across cost centers or product lines.
• Advanced Excel/Google Sheets; experience with data warehouses is a plus.
• CPA or CPA candidate a plus.

Responsibilities

• Support monthly close for compute cost of revenue, including cloud cost journal entries and accruals.
• Prepare prepaid cloud balance schedules, amortization, and rollforwards aligned with contract terms.
• Perform reconciliations of GPU utilization data to invoices and GL, investigate variances.
• Build and validate cost allocation data pipelines with Data/Analytics teams.
• Contribute to technical accounting memos on cost of revenue capitalization and related topics.
• Support external audits with cost schedules and auditor inquiries.
• Identify opportunities to automate and scale cost accounting processes as compute spend grows.
• Collaborate with FP&A, Procurement, and Partnerships to ensure proper periodization and allocation.

Skills

Financial analysis

Cost accounting

Data reconciliation

Communication

Excel/Google Sheets

SQL/Data warehouse

Vendor contracts

CPA/CPA candidate

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance

Tools

NetSuite

SQL

Data warehouses

Job description

• We are looking for a highly motivated and detail-oriented Financial Compute Analyst to join our Accounting team
• This role will help build and run the accounting, allocation, and reporting for compute cost of revenue as the company continues to scale
• Compute is by far our largest expense category and the single biggest driver of gross margin
• Cloud spend runs across a growing set of CSP and neocloud vendors under a mix of on-demand, reserved, prepaid, and committed-capacity structures — each with its own invoicing cadence, true-up mechanics, and credit terms
• The ideal candidate is comfortable turning GPU utilization data into defensible accounting conclusions and enjoys building the schedules, reconciliations, and controls that make cost of revenue accurate, explainable, and auditable
• This is a hands-on role that will partner closely with Infrastructure, Capital Efficiency, FP&A, Procurement, Partnerships, and Data teams to ensure compute costs are captured in the right period, classified to the right cost center, and reported in a way the business can actually use
• Support the monthly close for compute cost of revenue, including preparing cloud cost journal entries, accruals for unbilled usage, prepaid amortization, true-ups to actual usage, and supporting schedules
• Perform reconciliations of GPU utilization data to CSP invoices, contracted capacity, and the general ledger; research utilization-to-billed variances, idle capacity, and billing discrepancies, and escape complex items with a proposed resolution
• Prepare and maintain prepaid cloud balance schedules, including short-term/long-term classification, amortization tied to committed capacity, and rollforwards that tie to contract terms, for senior review
• Support the accounting for complex vendor and partnership arrangements, including committed spend, prepayment and reimbursement structures, revenue share, SLA and downtime credits, and capacity arranged through third parties
• Help evaluate the accounting treatment of new vendor agreements and capacity commitments, including COGS vs. operating expense classification, gross vs. net presentation, embedded leases under ASC 842, and liability vs. expense characterization
• Work with Data and Analytics teams to build and validate the cost and utilization data pipelines that feed allocations and reporting, and improve data quality at the source
• Contribute to technical accounting memos supporting significant cost of revenue and capitalization conclusions, including capitalized software and its amortization into COGS
• Support external audits by preparing cost schedules, vendor contract samples, allocation support, and responses to auditor inquiries
• Identify opportunities to automate and scale cost accounting processes, reconciliations, and reporting as compute spend grows
• What Success Looks Like:
• You will help build a cost accounting function that is accurate, scalable, auditable, and closely connected to how the business actually operates
• You will be able to trace compute spend from vendor contracts and GPU utilization through allocation to the general ledger and ultimately to gross margin, so the company can understand the true economics of each product and make infrastructure investment decisions with confidence

Qualifications and Requirements

3–6 years of relevant accounting or finance experience, including meaningful experience in cost accounting or cost of revenueBachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related fieldStrong analytical and problem-solving skills with exceptional attention to detailComfort working with large datasets and reconciling information across multiple systemsStrong communication skills and ability to translate cost accounting requirements into practical guidance for non-accounting stakeholdersFamiliarity with cost allocation concepts, including direct cost attribution and overhead allocation across cost centers or product linesExperience evaluating vendor contracts and committed purchase arrangements, and translating commercial terms into accounting treatment, is a plusAdvanced Excel/Google Sheets skills; SQL or experience working directly with data warehouses is a plusBuilder mindset — comfortable creating and improving processes in a fast-paced environment where products, vendors, and systems continue to evolveExperience with NetSuite or another major ERP system, including allocation schedules and amortization functionality, preferredExperience in cloud computing, AI infrastructure, SaaS, or other usage/consumption-based business models is preferred but not requiredCPA or CPA candidate a plus