Senior GL Accountant

Fireworks•San Mateo, CA

22h

About The Position

Fireworks AI is seeking an experienced General Ledger Accountant to own and scale the company’s month-end close and general ledger as the business grows. The role focuses on journal entries, reconciliations, and supporting schedules for operating expense accounts and international subsidiaries in APAC and EMEA. It includes high-volume areas such as infrastructure and compute spend, software subscriptions, and prepaid commitments, while helping establish processes, documentation, and controls for a growing AI infrastructure business. The accountant will partner with Accounts Payable, Payroll, FP&A, Tax, Legal, and Procurement to ensure transactions are correctly coded, recorded, and reconciled. The ideal candidate is hands-on and detail-oriented, and can take ownership of close activities while systems and processes continue to evolve. Success in the first 6–12 months includes owning a consistent, on-time close for operating expense accounts and international subsidiaries; building audit-ready accrual and prepaid schedules; keeping balance sheet reconciliations current and clearing reconciling items monthly; improving GL coding accuracy; documenting close procedures and controls; and reducing manual close effort through automation and cleaner processes.

Requirements

4–6 years of general ledger or corporate accounting experience.
Strong grasp of U.S. GAAP and accrual accounting, including prepaid and capitalization policy.
Hands-on experience owning month-end close tasks, including journal entries, accruals, and balance sheet reconciliations.
Strong systems orientation, including experience with ERPs such as NetSuite.
Advanced Excel skills and ability to build clean, auditable schedules.
Experience supporting external audits and preparing clear supporting documentation.
Strong communication skills and comfort asking questions early and partnering across teams.
Comfort working in an environment with rapidly evolving systems and changing business requirements.
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.

Nice To Haves

Experience at a high-growth technology or SaaS company.
Public accounting experience.
Experience with multi-entity accounting, intercompany, and foreign currency.
Familiarity with spend management platforms such as Ramp.
Exposure to SOX readiness, internal controls documentation, an ERP implementation, or chart-of-accounts redesign.
CPA or progress toward CPA.

Responsibilities

Prepare and post journal entries for accruals, prepaids, reclasses, and fixed asset depreciation within the close calendar.
Own operating expense accruals by gathering support from Accounts Payable, Procurement, and budget owners and reconciling estimates to actuals.
Maintain prepaid schedules and amortization for software subscriptions, cloud and compute commitments, and usage-based prepaids.
Perform monthly flux and variance analysis on operating expense accounts and explain drivers such as headcount, compute, and software spend.
Reconcile monthly balance sheet accounts, including cash, prepaids, accrued liabilities, deposits, fixed assets, and intercompany; work with Accounts Payable, Payroll, and Treasury to clear reconciling items.
Tie out payroll and benefits postings to the general ledger.
Support month-end close and reporting for international subsidiaries, including intercompany transactions, eliminations, and foreign currency remeasurement.
Assist with local statutory and tax filing requests for international entities.
Maintain accurate general ledger coding across ERP and spend management platforms, flag mis-mapped transactions, and help maintain the chart of accounts.
Participate in ERP enhancements and upgrade testing, including before-and-after trial balance and general ledger detail comparisons.
Document close procedures and help build SOX-ready controls, including preparation, review, and evidence standards.
Prepare PBC schedules and supporting workpapers for external auditors and tax advisors, and respond to questions about assigned accounts.
Identify manual close steps and help automate them using ERP functionality and AI-enabled processes.
Assist with tax, compliance, and other accounting projects as needed.