Compute Financial Analyst

Fireworks • San Mateo, CA

16h

About The Position

Fireworks is seeking a motivated, detail-oriented Financial Compute Analyst to join its Accounting team. The role will help build and operate the accounting, allocation, and reporting processes for compute cost of revenue as the company scales. Compute is the company’s largest expense category and a major driver of gross margin. Cloud spend spans multiple cloud service and neocloud vendors, with different billing cadences, true-up mechanics, and credit terms.

The analyst will turn GPU utilization data into supportable accounting conclusions and build schedules, reconciliations, and controls that make cost of revenue accurate, explainable, and auditable. This hands-on role partners with Infrastructure, Capital Efficiency, FP&A, Procurement, Partnerships, and Data teams to ensure compute costs are recorded in the correct period, assigned to the appropriate cost center, and reported usefully to the business.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• 3–6 years of relevant accounting or finance experience, including meaningful experience in cost accounting or cost of revenue.
• Familiarity with cost allocation concepts, including direct cost attribution and overhead allocation across cost centers or product lines.
• Comfort working with large datasets and reconciling information across multiple systems.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, exceptional attention to detail, and a builder mindset suited to a fast-paced, evolving environment.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to translate cost accounting requirements into practical guidance for non-accounting stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• CPA or CPA candidate.
• Experience in cloud computing, AI infrastructure, SaaS, or other usage- or consumption-based business models.
• Experience evaluating vendor contracts and committed purchase arrangements and translating commercial terms into accounting treatment.
• Experience with NetSuite or another major ERP system, including allocation schedules and amortization functionality.
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills.
• SQL skills or experience working directly with data warehouses.

Responsibilities

• Support the monthly close for compute cost of revenue by preparing cloud cost journal entries, accruals for unbilled usage, prepaid amortization, usage true-ups, and supporting schedules.
• Reconcile GPU utilization data to cloud provider invoices, contracted capacity, and the general ledger; investigate utilization-to-billed variances, idle capacity, and billing discrepancies, and escalate complex items with proposed resolutions.
• Prepare and maintain prepaid cloud balance schedules, including short-term and long-term classification, committed-capacity amortization, and contract-based rollforwards for senior review.
• Support accounting for vendor and partnership arrangements involving committed spend, prepayments, reimbursements, revenue share, service-level and downtime credits, and third-party capacity.
• Help evaluate the accounting treatment of new vendor agreements and capacity commitments, including cost of goods sold versus operating expense classification, gross versus net presentation, embedded leases under ASC 842, and liability versus expense characterization.
• Work with Data and Analytics teams to build and validate cost and utilization data pipelines for 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 cost of goods sold.
• 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 This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level