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Bonfire Studios•Irvine, CA

About The Position

Bonfire is seeking a strategic Finance and Accounting leader to join their Operations group. This role is responsible for defining the company's long-term approach to revenue, expense recognition, and reporting as the business model evolves. The position involves setting direction for other teams, ensuring financial data is trustworthy, and shaping how the studio understands its performance. The ideal candidate will have real ownership over financial storytelling and build systems and judgment that others can rely on.

Requirements

10+ years of accounting experience
7+ years in video games
Track record of building or overhauling revenue recognition frameworks, not just applying existing ones
Know ASC 606 well enough to originate policy positions on novel monetization models before precedent exists
Led relationships with major publishers and platform holders, not just processed their reporting
Deeply fluent in deferred revenue modeling, virtual currency accounting, and international royalty structures, and have shaped how a studio approaches them
Led an ERP evaluation or migration and can make the business case for systems investment
CPA required
Comfortable operating with significant autonomy in ambiguous, high-stakes, fast-changing environments

Nice To Haves

Supported multi-platform live-service titles at scale
Experience building or leading a team

Responsibilities

Setting the company's revenue recognition policy and methodology under ASC 606 (including box sales, microtransactions, and virtual currency), and partnering with the studio to keep the data behind it accurate and timely
Leading the close process end-to-end, directing an external accounting team and AP/AR resources, while building the judgment and quality bar they operate against
Owning platform and publisher reporting, including reconciling statements from Sony, Microsoft, Valve, and PC cafés, and using that visibility for crucial internal reporting, resolving systemic discrepancies, and improving royalty/licensing reporting to our partners
Leading cross-functional alignment with business, publishing, analytics, and live ops so that we have a cohesive structure for financial data and analytics across the studio
Owning treasury strategy and execution, including banking controls, liquidity management, excess cash investment, and corporate insurance strategy, with authority to set policy, not just execute it
Leading ERP transformation, owning the evaluation, business case, and roadmap for our next accounting systems, and building the automation strategy that will scale with the business for years, not just the next close
Leading cross-functional alignment with business, publishing, analytics, live ops, and FP&A, connecting forecasting, KPI reporting, and revenue insight directly to studio-wide product and live-ops strategy, and shaping how those teams think about revenue before decisions get made
Serving as a crucial partner in Finance Leadership, representing the finance function in high-stakes, high-ambiguity conversations such as external audits, tax structuring, and financial due diligence
Establishing the financial rigor Bonfire operates by today, with room to mentor and develop the team as it scales