Strategic Finance Director

Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs. This architecture allows Cerebras to deliver industry-leading training and inference speeds; over 10 times faster than GPU-based hyperscale cloud inference services.

This order of magnitude increase in speed is transforming the user experience of AI applications, unlocking real-time iteration and increasing intelligence via additional agentic computation.

Cerebras works with the leading model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups. OpenAI recently announced a multi-year partnership with Cerebras, to deploy 750 megawatts of scale, transforming key workloads with ultra high-speed inference.

About The Role

This role is a front-row seat in a company at the leading edge of AI compute. You will create the corporate FP&A operating system for the company: 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. 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. You will report to the Head of FP&A.

Why now

Cerebras is newly public and scaling at pace. This commercial traction demands exceptional financial operations. This role will be a driver of this capability.

Responsibilities

• 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.

• 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.

• A decision-quality KPI and reporting architecture: scorecards, dashboards, recurring reviews, and crisp narratives that leadership and investors trust.