Cost Accountant
STN Incorporated•Pleasanton, CA
•$80,000 - $110,000•Onsite
About The Position
The Cost Accountant builds visibility into the direct and shared costs of delivering STN's cloud and AI infrastructure services, developing unit economics and margin analyses that inform pricing and business decisions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance (or equivalent experience)
- 3-5 years of cost accounting or FP&A experience, ideally in a cloud/SaaS or technology environment
- Understanding of cloud infrastructure cost structures (compute, storage, data transfer)
- Strong Excel/data analysis skills; comfortable working with large usage-based datasets
- Candidates must be U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents.
- All applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building cost-per-unit or unit economics models (e.g., cost per token, cost per inference request, or cost per active user/seat)
- Familiarity with capitalized software development cost accounting
- Experience supporting pricing or margin analysis for usage-based products
Responsibilities
- Identify, track, and classify direct costs of delivering services: cloud compute (GPU/CPU), inference costs, storage, data transfer, etc.
- Distinguish between cost types and timing of costs for proper capitalization vs. expensing treatment
- Allocate shared infrastructure costs (data centers, cloud reserved instances, networking) across products, customers, or business units
- Develop cost-per-unit metrics: cost per token (input/output), cost per inference request, or cost per active user/seat
- Support pricing strategy by providing margin analysis at the customer, product tier, or usage-based pricing level
- Prepare gross margin analysis by customer, product line, or pricing tier
- Analyze actual vs. budgeted compute costs; investigate spend spikes
- Track capitalized software development costs for internally built AI infrastructure/tools
- Coordinate with technical accounting on amortization schedules for capitalized development costs
Benefits
- Health Coverage – Medical, Dental & Vision
- FSA Health and Dependent Care available
- 401(k) Plan
- Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Observed Holidays Paid
- Cell Phone Allowance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
