General Ledger Accountant (AI)

Location: San Mateo, United States; hybrid

Salary: $170K–$200K plus equity

Company

Fireworks AI provides infrastructure for building, training, and serving specialized AI models across text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal workloads.

What you will do

• Prepare and post journal entries for accruals, prepaids, reclasses, fixed asset depreciation, and other month-end close activities.
• Own operating expense accruals, prepaid schedules, amortization, and variance analysis for infrastructure, compute, software, and other high-volume spend.
• Reconcile cash, prepaids, accrued liabilities, deposits, fixed assets, intercompany accounts, payroll, and benefits, clearing reconciling items monthly.
• Support close and reporting for APAC and EMEA subsidiaries, including intercompany transactions, eliminations, FX remeasurement, and local statutory and tax requests.
• Maintain accurate GL coding, chart-of-accounts data, and ERP and spend-management workflows; participate in ERP enhancements, upgrade testing, and automation.
• Prepare audit and tax workpapers, document close procedures, and help build SOX-ready controls and evidence standards.

Requirements

• 4–6 years of general ledger or corporate accounting experience, ideally including experience at a high-growth technology or SaaS company.
• Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP and accrual accounting, including prepaid and capitalization policies.
• Hands-on ownership of month-end close tasks, including journal entries, accruals, and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Strong systems orientation and experience with ERP platforms such as NetSuite.
• Advanced Excel skills and the ability to build clean, auditable schedules.
• Experience supporting external audits and preparing clear supporting documentation.
• Strong communication skills, willingness to ask questions early, and ability to partner across teams.
• Comfort working with rapidly evolving systems and changing business requirements.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.

Nice to have

• Public accounting experience.
• Experience with multi-entity accounting, intercompany transactions, and foreign currency.
• Familiarity with spend-management platforms such as Ramp.
• Exposure to SOX readiness, internal-controls documentation, ERP implementation, or chart-of-accounts redesign.
• CPA certification or progress toward CPA.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on AI infrastructure challenges including low-latency inference and scalable model serving.
• Collaborate with engineers and AI researchers on technology used by businesses and developers.
• Operate in a fast-growing environment emphasizing ownership, direct impact, and limited bureaucracy.
• Inclusive, equal-opportunity workplace committed to diversity.