Head of Revenue Accounting
About The Position
Fireworks is the platform for specialized intelligence, enabling companies to build, train, and serve AI models tailored to their own data, workflows, and products. Founded by the team behind PyTorch and backed by AMD, Atreides, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, and TCV, Fireworks powers production AI with hundreds of state-of-the-art open models across text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal workloads. Today, Fireworks is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion, bringing together an ambitious, collaborative team that's building the future of enterprise AI.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, with substantial experience in technical revenue accounting.
- Deep expertise in ASC 606 and experience applying the standard to complex technology or SaaS contracts.
- Strong understanding of usage-based, consumption-based, subscription, and enterprise contract structures.
- Experience evaluating non-standard terms such as minimum commitments, prepaid credits, discounts, rebates, service-level arrangements, contract modifications, and variable consideration.
- Strong technical accounting research and memo-writing skills.
- Experience working in a high-growth technology company; experience with AI, cloud infrastructure, developer platforms, SaaS, or consumption-based businesses is especially relevant.
- Prior experience managing revenue close processes, internal controls, and external audit relationships.
- Ability to partner effectively with commercial teams while maintaining sound accounting judgment and appropriate controls.
- Strong systems orientation and experience scaling revenue accounting processes through automation.
- CPA strongly preferred.
- Public accounting experience, particularly with a Big Four firm, is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Own Fireworks AI’s global revenue accounting function, including revenue recognition, contract review, close, reconciliations, reporting, and related controls.
- Serve as the company’s technical accounting expert for revenue recognition under ASC 606.
- Review complex and non-standard customer contracts and determine the appropriate accounting treatment.
- Prepare and maintain technical accounting memos supporting revenue recognition conclusions and significant judgments.
- Partner closely with Sales, Legal, Deal Desk, FP&A, Billing, and Finance to evaluate the accounting implications of new products, pricing models, and contract structures.
- Establish scalable revenue accounting policies, processes, and controls as the company grows.
- Lead monthly and quarterly revenue close activities, including deferred revenue, contract assets and liabilities, variable consideration, and revenue-related balance sheet accounts.
- Support external audits and serve as the primary point of contact for revenue-related accounting matters.
- Identify opportunities to automate and improve revenue accounting workflows, systems, and data integrity.
- Build and lead a high-performing revenue accounting team over time.
- Support broader technical accounting initiatives, financial reporting requirements, and readiness for future public-company standards.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
