Finance Operations & Cost Intelligence Manager
About Us:
At Fireworks, we’re building the future of generative AI infrastructure. Our platform delivers the highest-quality models with the fastest and most scalable inference in the industry. We’ve been independently benchmarked as the leader in LLM inference speed and are driving cutting-edge innovation through projects like our own function calling and multimodal models. Fireworks is a Series C company valued at $4 billion and backed by top investors including Benchmark, Sequoia, Lightspeed, Index, and Evantic. We’re an ambitious, collaborative team of builders, founded by veterans of Meta PyTorch and Google Vertex AI.
The Finance Operations & Cost Intelligence Manager drives intelligent financial operations and cost transparency across cloud infrastructure and AI platform services. This role oversees the integrity of supply side-derived cost components, ensures accurate financial attribution, and develops scalable cost intelligence frameworks that support real-time financial insights.
In addition to operational oversight, this position partners with AI engineers to design and implement AI-enabled finance workflows, including the development of a holistic agentic system for finance operations built on strong financial data hygiene and structured financial datasets.
Key Responsibilities
Cloud Cost Operations & Verification
- Oversee the operational review of vendor-derived cloud cost components, including compute capacity, infrastructure services, and platform-related supplier charges.
- Perform structured three-way verification between supplier purchase orders, contracts, and invoices, ensuring charges align with agreed pricing, service terms, and contracted capacity.
- Confirm the reliability and completeness of service receipts, including validation that billed cloud capacity or services were actually delivered and consumed as expected.
- Investigate billing discrepancies with vendors and internal teams to ensure accurate financial records and cost attribution.
Billing Integrity & Vendor Credit Management
- Validate invoices and credit memos associated with cloud infrastructure services and platform vendors.
- Trace, track, and reconcile the application of supplier credit memos, particularly in cases of service performance issues, overcharges, or capacity shortfalls.
- Ensure credits are properly applied to financial records and reflected in cost reporting and vendor balances.
Cost Intelligence & Allocation
- Maintain structured mapping of vendor costs into internal cost allocation frameworks.
- Perform accounting allocations that disaggregate infrastructure and service costs down to the customer or workload level, enabling accurate product and customer unit economics.
- Work with finance and analytics teams to ensure cost datasets support customer-level profitability analysis and infrastructure cost visibility.
AI-Enabled Finance and Accounting
- Implement and manage AI-assisted workflows for financial document processing, cost classification, and anomaly detection.
- Work closely with AI engineers and data teams to develop an agentic finance operations framework that automates financial review, cost attribution, and operational decision support.
- Drive the creation of AI-ready financial data infrastructure by establishing high-quality financial data hygiene and domain-informed controls.This enables trusted AI-driven financial automation with human-in-the-loop oversight, combining finance expertise with AI to build an AI-native finance function that scales with Firework’s growth.
Process Optimization & Systems
- Continuously improve finance operations processes through automation, structured data design, and workflow optimization.
- Maintain integration between vendor billing data, financial systems, and analytics tools.
Strategic Initiative Example
One of the key projects for this role is partnering with AI engineers to design a holistic agentic finance operations system, where AI agents assist with:
- financial document interpretation
- cost classification and allocation
- anomaly detection in vendor billing
- operational finance decision support
This system relies on high-quality financial data hygiene and structured financial datasets to enable reliable AI-driven automation.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirement:
- Bachelor degree in Finance or Accounting
- 5 years of experience working in Finance and/or Accounting
Expertise preferred not required:
- Cost Accounting, Vendor management and Payment Operations Experience
- Tooling: Google workspace, Ramp, AI productivity tools
- CPA is preferred but not required
Why Fireworks AI?
- 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.