Cerebras Systems

Cerebras Systems

Director, Strategic Finance - Corporate FP&A

Headquarters/Sunnyvale Office · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 61 days ago
PythonSQLData VisualizationComplianceFinancial ModelingFinancial AnalysisForecastingBudgetingExcelFP&AERPPerformance ManagementCadenceLeadershipMicrosoft OfficeFinancial ReportingNetSuite

About the role

  • This role is a front-row seat in a company at the leading edge of AI compute.
  • The scope can stretch for a proven FP&A leader seeking a sharper public-company platform or a high-potential leader ready to pull the function forward from day one.
  • You will work across leadership teams and be accountable for outcomes, not outputs.

Responsibilities

  • Operating model: Player-coach on a flat, high-standards team. You bring a track record of building talent-dense teams, use technology to multiply output, and set the bar by staying close to the work.
  • Success definition: FP&A is the center of context for the organization. The team will deliver investor-grade information to the right partners at the right time.
  • What you will build
  • Corporate FP&A infrastructure for a newly public company: planning, forecasting, reporting, guidance support, and G&A spend visibility.
  • Financial models leaders can use: clean inputs, stress-tested assumptions, clear outputs, and documented logic across planning, budgeting, forecasts, and guidance support.
  • A world-class business partnership motion: business leaders rely on the FP&A team for insight. We deliver true partnership, not spreadsheet help
  • Make order out of chaos. Build mechanisms that turn messy business inputs into repeatable processes including forecasting cadences, metric definitions, reconciliation paths, and accountability loops.
  • Public-company-ready operating rhythms: clean close-to-insight timelines, clear ownership, guidance support, and durable definitions that scale with scrutiny.
  • What you will own
  • G&A business partnering: Serve as the primary finance partner to G&A leadership. Bring structure, speed, and judgment to budgeting, headcount planning, spend management, and strategic investment decisions.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of total experience (rough guide), ideally across corporate FP&A, strategic finance, or adjacent roles.
  • You have seen excellent FP&A up close and can raise the bar quickly.
  • Proven G&A and executive-facing partnership.
  • Experience in hardware, semiconductor, infrastructure, or other complex businesses with sophisticated revenue and spend planning.
  • Experience with performance management, scorecards, dashboarding, and operating leverage analysis.
  • You have improved the system: fewer manual consolidations, fewer one-off analyses, and more AI-enabled mechanisms that keep the business informed as scale increases.

Nice to have

  • Technical fluency beyond spreadsheets (preferred).
  • Comfortable with Excel, PowerPoint, SQL, Python, AI tools, and planning or BI tooling.

Skills

  • Cerebras works with the leading model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups.
  • G&A spend and headcount visibility improve through better planning discipline, reducing surprises and improving decision quality.
  • In-person at Cerebras headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.
  • Why Join Cerebras

Compensation

  • Ownership: Company-wide corporate FP&A, including owning the company model, leading long-range and annual planning, monthly forecasting, revenue forecasting, G&A budgeting, headcount, spend management, Board reporting, and public-company reporting support.
  • Corporate planning: Own and continuously improve forecasting, budgeting, annual planning, long-range planning, scenario planning, and performance reporting across the company.
  • The long-range plan, annual operating plan, and monthly forecast process run smoothly, with scenario levers leadership uses for decisions, guidance support, and operating tradeoffs.

Company info

  • long-range planning, annual planning, forecasting, executive reporting, guidance support, and SG&A business partnering that keeps decision-ready insight flowing as the company scales.
  • You will report to the Head of FP&A.
  • Cerebras is newly public and scaling at pace.
  • This commercial traction demands exceptional financial operations.
  • This role will be a driver of this capability.
  • planning, forecasting, reporting, guidance support, and G&A spend visibility.
  • clean close-to-insight timelines, clear ownership, guidance support, and durable definitions that scale with scrutiny.
  • Ownership: Company-wide corporate FP&A, including owning the company model, leading long-range and annual planning, monthly forecasting, revenue forecasting, G&A budgeting, headcount, spend management, Board reporting, and public-company reporting support.
  • Corporate FP&A infrastructure for a newly public
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