Financial Reporting Manager

Who you are

• 6–10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including technical accounting and external reporting; public accounting background preferred
• Strong technical accounting knowledge with hands-on ownership of ASC 606, ASC 842, and ASC 718; familiarity with ASC 808 and ASC 350-40 a plus
• Experience analyzing non-standard commercial arrangements and partnership or revenue share structures and translating them into supportable accounting conclusions
• Demonstrated ability to write clear, well-reasoned technical accounting memos
• Experience documenting processes through flowcharts, narratives, and control matrices, and using that documentation to strengthen controls
• Experience preparing financial statements and footnote disclosures
• Experience developing and improving accounting and reporting processes in a fast-growing organization
• Experience supporting external audits and preparing high-quality accounting documentation
• Strong systems orientation, including experience with ERPs such as NetSuite and comfort working with large datasets
• Strong cross-functional communication skills and experience partnering with FP&A, Legal, Tax, Engineering, Revenue Operations, and business teams on transactions before they close
• Comfortable working in an environment with rapidly evolving systems and changing business requirements
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field. CPA or CPA eligibility preferred

What the job involves

• Fireworks AI is looking for an experienced Financial Reporting Manager to own and scale the company's technical accounting and financial reporting function as the business grows rapidly
• This role will be responsible for the technical accounting positions, financial statements, and documentation behind some of the most complex areas of our business — leases and data center arrangements, equity, revenue, strategic partnerships, and hardware and compute costs, while building the processes, documentation, and controls needed to support a high-growth AI infrastructure business
• The Financial Reporting Manager will also own end-to-end process documentation, building the flowcharts, narratives, and control matrices that strengthen our control environment as we scale
• This person will partner closely with Accounting Operations, FP&A, Legal, Tax, Infrastructure, Engineering, Revenue Operations, and Business Development to ensure that complex transactions are understood, documented, and reported correctly
• The ideal candidate is technically deep, writes clearly, and is comfortable forming and defending accounting positions in a rapidly changing industry
• Manage the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting process, ensuring timely and accurate reporting
• Own technical accounting research, conclusions, and memo documentation across the company's most complex and judgmental areas, including revenue, leases, equity, partnerships, and infrastructure arrangements
• Own lease accounting under ASC 842 end to end, including new lease setup, modifications, disclosures, and related reconciliations
• Evaluate infrastructure and compute-related spend, including cloud hosting, GPU capacity, data center costs, prepaid commitments, vendor accruals, and other cost-of-revenue and operating expense activity
• Own accounting for strategic partnership, reseller, and marketplace arrangements, including gross versus net presentation, revenue share, and consideration payable to a customer
• Own revenue recognition under ASC 606, including partnering with Deal Desk, Revenue Operations, and Legal on non-standard contract review
• Own equity and share-based payments accounting, including the equity rollforward and other related disclosures
• Build and maintain end-to-end process flowcharts, narratives, and risk-and-control matrices across key financial reporting cycles, documenting systems, data flows, handoffs, and control points
• Support the design and implementation of SOX-ready controls as the company matures, including preparation, review, approval, and evidence standards
• Monitor new accounting pronouncements and evolving industry practice, assess applicability to Fireworks, and lead adoption planning and implementation
• Serve as a primary point of contact for external auditors on technical accounting areas, preparing audit-ready memos, schedules, and supporting documentation
• Develop and maintain accounting policies across revenue, leases, equity, capitalization, and partnership arrangements, and socialize them with cross-functional stakeholders
• Partner with Engineering and Data teams where accounting depends on operational data, ensuring usage, consumption, and infrastructure data used in reporting is complete, accurate, and reproducible
• Identify opportunities to automate reporting and documentation workflows using ERP functionality, SQL, and AI-enabled processes
• Assist with tax, insurance, compliance, due diligence, and other accounting projects as needed
• ---What Success Looks Like---
• ---In the first 6–12 months, this person will have:
• Deepened the technical accounting documentation behind our most complex arrangements, spanning revenue, partnerships, leases, equity, and infrastructure costs
• Scaled lease accounting alongside our growing data center and GPU capacity footprint, including a clear framework for evaluating new arrangements
• Kept equity accounting and disclosures audit-ready as the company grows
• Become the partner Business Development, Deal Desk, and Legal bring non-standard arrangements to before terms are finalized
• Brought clarity and consistency to how hardware and compute costs are treated and presented
• Documented our financial reporting cycles end to end, strengthening the control environment as we scale
• Elevated the quarterly and annual reporting package, including footnotes and disclosure support; and
• Built a reporting environment that absorbs rapid growth without a proportional increase in manual effort