Head of Process and Controls Finance and Operations
Fireworks AI operates an AI platform for production inference and training of open-source models.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
Funding history
About Fireworks AI
Fireworks AI provides serverless and dedicated model inference, model deployment, and supervised and reinforcement fine-tuning for developers and enterprises building AI applications.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build and lead the process architecture, controls, and governance for infrastructure and financial operations. You will standardize workflows, improve Order-to-Cash and Purchase-to-Pay processes, automate reconciliations and exceptions, establish data and control standards, and lead cross-functional transformation initiatives.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in process transformation, controllership, finance operations, business operations, internal controls, or related fields
- Leadership experience building or transforming complex cross-functional processes
- Expertise in Order-to-Cash and Purchase-to-Pay
- Experience with financial and operational controls in technology, cloud infrastructure, SaaS, or consumption-based businesses
- Understanding of usage-based billing, metering, reconciliation, pricing, and consumption economics
- Experience reducing manual work through automation
- Knowledge of ERP, billing, procurement, data, and financial systems
- Experience with automated reconciliations and exception management
- Familiarity with AI-enabled workflow automation, anomaly detection, SOX, audit requirements, and accounting processes
- Ability to translate complex data flows into scalable business and financial processes
Responsibilities
- Build foundational process architecture for infrastructure and financial operations
- Define end-to-end processes, ownership, controls, data handoffs, approvals, and escalation procedures
- Standardize workflows and develop operating procedures, process maps, RACI frameworks, control matrices, and playbooks
- Create transformation roadmaps for risk remediation, automation, and scalable systems
- Lead AI-enabled automation of reconciliations, validation, monitoring, and exception management
- Own and improve Order-to-Cash and Purchase-to-Pay processes
- Establish token and usage-data accuracy, reconciliation, and traceability controls
- Design scalable financial and operational control frameworks
- Develop automation requirements for metering, pricing, billing, procurement, ERP, and data platforms
- Establish operating metrics, risk indicators, dashboards, and cross-functional operating reviews
- Build and lead the Process and Controls organization
Benefits
- Equity