Financial Reporting Manager

About Us:

At Fireworks, we’re building the future of generative AI infrastructure. Our platform delivers the highest-quality models with the fastest and most scalable inference in the industry. We’ve been independently benchmarked as the leader in LLM inference speed and are driving cutting-edge innovation through projects like our own function calling and multimodal models. Fireworks is a Series C company valued at $4 billion and backed by top investors including Benchmark, Sequoia, Lightspeed, Index, and Evantic. We’re an ambitious, collaborative team of builders, founded by veterans of Meta PyTorch and Google Vertex AI.

The Role

We are hiring a Financial Reporting Manager to own technical accounting, revenue recognition, and external financial reporting for Fireworks AI.  ASC 606, ASC 808,ASC350, ASC842 and related experience is preferred.

This is not a maintenance role. You will be building frameworks from the ground up: establishing revenue recognition policies, drafting technical accounting memos for novel deal structures, partnering with Legal and BizOps to shape contract terms before they are signed, and working with Engineering to ensure the billing and data infrastructure produces audit-ready outputs. You will report to the Head of Finance and Operations and work closely with external auditors and tax advisors.

What You'll Do

Technical Accounting & Policy

• Serve as the primary technical accounting owner for Fireworks AI — establishing and maintaining revenue recognition policies, preparing accounting position memos, and providing real-time guidance on complex and novel transactions.
• Analyze new commercial arrangements under ASC 606 (Revenue from Contracts with Customers) across the full five-step model
• Lead ASC 808 (Collaborative Arrangements) analysis for strategic partnerships that contain elements of both customer-vendor and collaborative relationships
• Lead the draft of technical accounting memos for significant arrangements. 
• Monitor and implement new accounting standards and ASU updates relevant to the business (e.g., updates to digital asset accounting, SaaS arrangement guidance, or changes to collaborative arrangement standards).

Revenue Recognition Operations

• Build and own the end-to-end revenue recognition process 
• Establish the revenue recognition sub-ledger and ensure it reconciles to the general ledger (currently QuickBooks, with a potential migration to NetSuite) at the transaction level every month-end.
• Own the monthly revenue close process — preparing revenue journal entries, flux analysis, and management reporting with variance commentary by revenue stream, customer cohort, and contract type.
• Build contract-level P&L visibility for strategic partnerships — tracking revenue recognized, costs allocated (including GPU compute costs, cloud infrastructure, and support), and contribution margin by arrangement.

Financial Reporting & Audit Readiness

• Prepare GAAP-compliant financial statements and supporting schedules — including revenue disaggregation disclosures (by stream, geography, and recognition timing), deferred revenue rollforwards, and remaining performance obligation (RPO) disclosures.
• Build and maintain the audit trail and documentation standards necessary to support external audit — including contract files, revenue recognition conclusions, and calculation workpapers for every material arrangement.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for external auditors on revenue recognition, technical accounting positions, and financial statement presentation.
• Prepare board and investor reporting packages — including ARR/MRR analytics, revenue bridge analyses, bookings-to-revenue conversion metrics, and cohort-level retention and expansion reporting.
• Support equity raise and due diligence processes by providing clean, well-documented financial data and accounting position summaries to potential investors and their advisors.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner with Legal and BizOps during deal structuring to advise on how contract terms affect revenue recognition — shaping payment schedules, milestone definitions, termination provisions, and acceptance clauses to optimize both commercial and accounting outcomes.
• Collaborate with Billing Engineering to ensure the Orb billing platform and BigQuery data pipeline produce outputs that align with revenue recognition requirements — including proper deferred revenue tracking, credit amortization, usage-to-billing reconciliation, and marketplace settlement mapping.
• Work with Tax advisors (currently PwC) on the intersection of revenue recognition and tax compliance — including transfer pricing documentation for cross-border arrangements, VAT/GST treatment of digital services, and state sales/use tax implications of different billing models.
• Advise FP&A on revenue forecasting methodology — ensuring forward-looking models reflect the recognition timing of contracted backlog, constrained variable consideration, and pipeline-weighted bookings.

What We're Looking For

Required

• 8+ years of progressive experience in technical accounting, revenue recognition, or financial reporting — with a meaningful portion at a high-growth technology or SaaS company with usage-based or consumption pricing models.
• CPA required. Active license strongly preferred.
• Deep expertise in ASC 606 — you have personally drafted technical memos, built five-step analyses for complex multi-element arrangements, and defended accounting positions with external auditors.
• Experience with ASC 808 or similar collaborative arrangement guidance — comfortable navigating the boundary between customer-vendor and collaborative relationships in strategic partnerships.
• Hands-on experience building revenue recognition processes at a scaling company — not just maintaining existing systems, but standing up policies, sub-ledgers, and close procedures where they did not previously exist.
• Strong working knowledge of accounting systems (QuickBooks and/or NetSuite) and the ability to configure chart of accounts, design journal entry workflows, and build reconciliation processes.
• Excellent written communication — you produce clear, well-structured technical memos that non-accountants can understand and auditors will respect.
• Comfort with data — you can work in SQL or Excel at an advanced level to validate revenue calculations, build reconciliation workbooks, and investigate discrepancies at the transaction level.

Preferred

• Big Four public accounting experience (audit or technical accounting advisory) with technology sector clients — particularly clients with usage-based, marketplace, or platform business models.
• Experience with usage-based billing platforms (Orb, Zuora, Metronome, Chargebee) and the accounting implications of metered billing, prepaid credits, and committed-spend contracts.
• Familiarity with cloud marketplace economics — AWS Marketplace, GCP Marketplace, or Azure Marketplace private offers, CPPO structures, and channel settlement reporting.
• Prior involvement in ERP implementation or migration — particularly QuickBooks to NetSuite transitions for a company crossing the $50M–$100M revenue threshold.
• Experience preparing for or supporting a first-time audit or SOX readiness program.
• Exposure to GPU compute, AI/ML infrastructure, or cloud services pricing — understanding how compute-hour metering, token-based pricing, and capacity reservation models translate to revenue recognition events.
• Experience with international revenue considerations — multi-currency transactions, transfer pricing, and the interaction between ASC 606 and local GAAP/IFRS requirements for foreign subsidiaries.

Why This Role Matters

Fireworks AI's revenue complexity is accelerating faster than its accounting infrastructure. We are signing multi-year, multi-element partnerships with hyperscalers and AI companies. We are distributing through three cloud marketplaces simultaneously. We are operating five distinct billing models with different recognition patterns. The person in this role will not inherit a mature system — they will build the system that carries the company through its next stage of scale, audit readiness, and potential public company preparation.

Why Fireworks AI?

• Solve Hard Problems: Tackle challenges at the forefront of AI infrastructure, from low-latency inference to scalable model serving.
• Build What’s Next: Work with bleeding-edge technology that impacts how businesses and developers harness AI globally.
• Ownership & Impact: Join a fast-growing, passionate team where your work directly shapes the future of AI—no bureaucracy, just results.
• Learn from the Best: Collaborate with world-class engineers and AI researchers who thrive on curiosity and innovation.

Fireworks AI is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all innovators.