Senior Operations Accountant

About the role

Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip and works with model labs, global enterprises and AI-native startups. The Senior Operations Accountant supports the monthly close and financial reporting for the company's inventory, manufacturing cost and global lease portfolios. Reporting to the Lease Accounting Manager, the role owns recurring reconciliations, journal entries and supporting analyses, partners with Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, Facilities, Accounts Payable and Financial Reporting, and helps strengthen processes and controls as the business scales.

Key responsibilities

• Inventory and cost accounting: own monthly inventory subledger-to-general-ledger reconciliations, investigate variances and prepare journal entries and close support; calculate inventory rebates, wafer manufacturing yield losses, manufacturing and facilities allocations, freight, tariffs and other costs; monitor inventory classification across raw materials, work in process and finished goods, including inventory held at contract manufacturers and third-party locations; analyze inventory movements, cost changes, manufacturing variances, yield, scrap and excess and obsolete inventory; support inventory reserve, write-off and disposition analyses, physical inventory counts and audit documentation.
• Lease accounting: execute monthly accounting for the global data center and office lease portfolio under ASC 842, including journal entries, reconciliations, rollforwards, payment schedules and flux analysis; support review of new, modified and terminated leases and coordinate conclusions with the Lease Accounting Manager and Technical Accounting; maintain lease population completeness with Facilities, Procurement, Legal and Accounts Payable; prepare quarter-end lease schedules and support financial statement disclosures and SEC reporting.
• Audit controls and business partnership: prepare schedules and documentation for internal and external audits; maintain process documentation and control evidence; partner with cross-functional teams to improve data quality and explain financial statement impacts; improve and automate recurring processes, including the responsible use of AI-enabled tools, while keeping review and control procedures.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance or a related field.
• Four or more years of progressive accounting experience; experience in manufacturing, semiconductor, hardware or infrastructure-intensive environments is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP, including inventory valuation and costing under ASC 330 and lease accounting under ASC 842.
• CPA or CMA certification preferred.
• Ability to analyze large and sometimes unstructured datasets, document conclusions, manage competing priorities and meet close deadlines.
• Clear written and verbal communication and effective collaboration with finance and operational stakeholders.

Required skills

• NetSuite and Excel, including pivot tables, lookups and data modeling.
• Power Query, lease accounting systems or similar automation tools are a plus.

The position is based in Sunnyvale, California, with three days per week in the office.