Fireworks AI

Head of Process & Controls - Finance and Operations

Hybrid

Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.

Hybrid · San Mateo

Employer listed it 3 weeks ago · Added 3 weeks ago

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Salary

$260k to $270k per year

Location

Hybrid · San Mateo

Timezone

Not stated

Contract

Full-time

Experience

Lead

What the advert says

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Where you can work from: Location eligibility not confirmed
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Experience asked for: 10+ years of experience in process transformation, controllership, finance operations, business operations, internal controls, or related disciplines.
Pay: Not mentioned in the advert

Remote flexibility

Hybrid

This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around San Mateo, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.

What the employer says

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About the role

About Us:

Fireworks is the platform for specialized intelligence, enabling companies to build, train, and serve AI models tailored to their own data, workflows, and products. Founded by the team behind PyTorch and backed by AMD, Atreides, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, and TCV, Fireworks powers production AI with hundreds of state-of-the-art open models across text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal workloads. Today, Fireworks is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion, bringing together an ambitious, collaborative team that's building the future of enterprise AI.

We are seeking a Head of Process & Controls to build and lead the operational processes, controls, and governance required to scale our AI infrastructure business.

This role will own the end-to-end process architecture across AI infrastructure workflows, token and usage accuracy, Order-to-Cash (O2C), and Purchase-to-Pay (P2P), with a strong mandate to build the process foundation, remediate and simplify existing workflows, and drive AI-enabled automation.

The leader will take a phased transformation approach:

Build the foundation →Standardize → Automate and scale with AI.

The objective is to create reliable, well-controlled processes that accurately connect infrastructure consumption to customer billing, supplier costs, accounting, and financial reporting—while progressively reducing manual effort, reconciliation burden, operational discrepancies, and financial leakage.

The ideal candidate combines strong process transformation and controls expertise with an understanding of cloud and AI infrastructure economics. They will work across Engineering, Infrastructure, Product, Finance, Accounting, Procurement, Sales Operations, and Data teams to create scalable workflows and embed automation into the operating model.

Key Responsibilities

Process Foundation, Standardization & Transformation

Build the foundational process architecture for AI infrastructure and related financial operations.

Define clear end-to-end processes, ownership, controls, decision rights, system-of-records, data handoffs, approval points, exception paths, and escalation procedures.

Assess the current operating environment and identify:

Fragmented or undocumented processes

Manual workarounds

Spreadsheet-dependent workflows

Duplicate activities

Unclear process ownership

Control gaps

Inconsistent data definitions

Reconciliation issues

System integration gaps

Recurring operational and financial discrepancies

Lead the Standardization of existing processes before introducing automation, ensuring that inefficient or poorly controlled processes are not simply automated in their current state.

Requirements

·10+ years of experience in process transformation, controllership, finance operations, business operations, internal controls, or related disciplines.
·Significant leadership experience building or transforming complex, cross-functional processes.
·Demonstrated experience establishing process foundations in environments with immature, fragmented, or rapidly evolving workflows.
·Strong expertise in Order-to-Cash and Purchase-to-Pay processes.
·Experience designing financial and operational control frameworks in technology, cloud infrastructure, SaaS, hyperscale infrastructure, or other consumption-based businesses.

Benefits

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How to apply

1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
2Tailor your CV to the role at Fireworks AI, mentioning your remote working experience.
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