Senior GL Accountant

About Us:

About the Role

What You'll Do

What We're Looking For

What Success Looks Like

Why Fireworks?

Why Fireworks?

Qualifications

• 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.
• Advanced Excel skills and the 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.
• Comfortable working in an environment with rapidly evolving systems and changing business requirements.
• What Success Looks Like
• owned a consistent, on-time close for operating expense accounts and international subsidiaries;
• built reliable accrual and prepaid schedules that hold up at audit;
• kept balance sheet reconciliations current, with reconciling items cleared each month;
• improved GL coding accuracy across the ERP and spend management platforms;
• documented close procedures and controls for their accounts; and
• reduced manual effort in the close through automation and cleaner processes.
• Why Fireworks?
• Solve Hard Problems: Tackle challenges at the forefront of AI infrastructure, from low-latency inference to scalable model serving.
• Build What's Next: Work with bleeding-edge technology that impacts how businesses and developers harness AI globally.
• Ownership & Impact: Join a fast-growing, passionate team where your work directly shapes the future of AI—no bureaucracy, just results.
• Learn from the Best: Collaborate with world-class engineers and AI researchers who thrive on curiosity and innovation.
• Fireworks AI is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all innovators.
• Build What’s Next: Work with bleeding-edge technology that impacts how businesses and developers harness AI globally.

Preferred Qualifications

• 4–6 years of general ledger or corporate accounting experience, ideally including time at a high-growth technology or SaaS company; public accounting experience a plus.
• Experience with multi-entity accounting, intercompany, and foreign currency a plus.
• Strong systems orientation, including experience with ERPs such as NetSuite; familiarity with spend management platforms such as Ramp a plus.
• Exposure to SOX readiness, internal controls documentation, or an ERP implementation or chart-of-accounts redesign a plus.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field. CPA or progress toward CPA preferred.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and post journal entries for accruals, prepaids, reclasses, and fixed asset depreciation within the close calendar.
• Own operating expense accruals, gathering support from Accounts Payable, Procurement, and budget owners and truing up against actuals.
• Maintain prepaid schedules and amortization, including software subscriptions, cloud and compute commitments, and usage-based prepaids.
• Perform monthly flux and variance analysis on operating expense accounts and explain the drivers, such as headcount, compute, and software spend.
• Reconcile balance sheet accounts monthly, including cash, prepaids, accrued liabilities, deposits, fixed assets, and intercompany, and clear reconciling items with Accounts Payable, Payroll, and Treasury.
• Tie out payroll and benefits postings to the general ledger.
• Support month-end close and reporting for international subsidiaries, including intercompany transactions, eliminations, and FX remeasurement.
• Assist with local statutory and tax filing requests for international entities.
• Keep general ledger coding accurate across the 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 GL 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 on your accounts.
• Identify manual steps in the close and help automate them using ERP functionality and AI-enabled processes.
• Assist with tax, compliance, and other accounting projects as needed.
• 4–6 years of general ledger or corporate accounting experience, ideally including time at a high-growth technology or SaaS company; public accounting experience a plus.
• 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.
• Experience with multi-entity accounting, intercompany, and foreign currency a plus.
• Strong systems orientation, including experience with ERPs such as NetSuite; familiarity with spend management platforms such as Ramp a plus.
• Advanced Excel skills and the ability to build clean, auditable schedules.
• Experience supporting external audits and preparing clear supporting documentation.
• Exposure to SOX readiness, internal controls documentation, or an ERP implementation or chart-of-accounts redesign a plus.
• Strong communication skills and comfort asking questions early and partnering across teams.
• Comfortable working in an environment with rapidly evolving systems and changing business requirements.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field. CPA or progress toward CPA preferred.
• In the first 6–12 months, this person will have:
• owned a consistent, on-time close for operating expense accounts and international subsidiaries;
• built reliable accrual and prepaid schedules that hold up at audit;
• kept balance sheet reconciliations current, with reconciling items cleared each month;
• improved GL coding accuracy across the ERP and spend management platforms;
• documented close procedures and controls for their accounts; and
• reduced manual effort in the close through automation and cleaner processes.
• Solve Hard Problems: Tackle challenges at the forefront of AI infrastructure, from low-latency inference to scalable model serving.
• Build What's Next: Work with bleeding-edge technology that impacts how businesses and developers harness AI globally.
• Ownership & Impact: Join a fast-growing, passionate team where your work directly shapes the future of AI—no bureaucracy, just results.
• Learn from the Best: Collaborate with world-class engineers and AI researchers who thrive on curiosity and innovation.
• Fireworks AI is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all innovators.
• Build What’s Next: Work with bleeding-edge technology that impacts how businesses and developers harness AI globally.