Director, Strategic Finance - Corporate FP&A

Cerebras
Sunnyvale
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Finance & AccountingExperience: 15+ yearsSkills: ["Judgment","Agency","Systems thinking","Executive communication","Player-coach leadership"]

Build and run the company’s corporate FP&A operating system, setting up long-range planning, annual planning, monthly forecasting, revenue and G&A budgeting, and Board/investor reporting for a newly public, fast-scaling AI chip company. Lead financial modeling, KPI and dashboard architecture, and scenario planning while partnering with G&A, Sales, and Product to deliver decision-ready insight. Own the systems, data quality, and AI-enabled workflows that scale with scrutiny.

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Director, Strategic Finance - Corporate FP&A

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Job Summary

Build and run the company’s corporate FP&A operating system, setting up long-range planning, annual planning, monthly forecasting, revenue and G&A budgeting, and Board/investor reporting for a newly public, fast-scaling AI chip company. Lead financial modeling, KPI and dashboard architecture, and scenario planning while partnering with G&A, Sales, and Product to deliver decision-ready insight. Own the systems, data quality, and AI-enabled workflows that scale with scrutiny.
Location: Sunnyvale
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Finance & Accounting
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own company-wide corporate FP&A, including the company model, long-range/annual planning, monthly forecasting, revenue forecasting, G&A budgeting, headcount and spend management, and Board/public-company reporting support.
  • •Build and improve the FP&A operating model and infrastructure, including forecasting cadences, metric definitions, reconciliation paths, accountability loops, and guidance support.
  • •Develop decision-quality KPI and reporting architecture (scorecards, dashboards, recurring reviews, and investor-grade narratives) and maintain durable single-source-of-truth inputs.
  • •Lead revenue forecasting and partner with Sales and Product on accurate projections, variance insights, and guidance support.
  • •Support capital allocation and financial systems improvements, including AI-enabled workflows, tools, and data quality.

Key Requirements

  • •15+ years of total experience across corporate FP&A, strategic finance, or adjacent roles, with openness to Director/VP-level candidates.
  • •Corporate FP&A leadership experience, ideally in a public-company or newly public environment.
  • •Strong financial modeling ability, including building from scratch and pressure-testing assumptions.
  • •Proven G&A and executive-facing partnership with the ability to create repeatable mechanisms and scale trust.
  • •Technical fluency beyond spreadsheets (preferred), including comfort with Excel, PowerPoint, SQL, Python, and planning/BI tooling.
Experience:15+ yearsPublic-companyNewly publicHigh-growthAI-nativeSemiconductors
Skills:JudgmentAgencySystems thinkingExecutive communicationPlayer-coach leadership
Tech Stack:ExcelPowerPointSQLPythonAI toolsNetSuiteOracleLooker

Company Brief

Cerebras
Designs and builds wafer-scale AI accelerators and systems for large-scale deep learning workloads, delivering specialized hardware and software to accelerate model training and inference for enterprises and research institutions.
Industry: Hardware Devices
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, United States
Founded: 2016
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