Senior Director, Technical Accounting

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Core Weave is The Essential Cloud for AI™. Built for pioneers by pioneers, Core Weave delivers a platform of technology, tools, and teams that enables innovators to build and scale AI with confidence. Trusted by leading AI labs, startups, and global enterprises, Core Weave combines superior infrastructure performance with deep technical expertise to accelerate breakthroughs and turn compute into capability. Founded in 2017, Core Weave became a publicly traded company (Nasdaq: CRWV) in March 2025.

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The Technical Accounting team at Core Weave is the backbone of financial accuracy and compliance in a hyper‑growth AI infrastructure environment. This team tackles complex accounting matters—from revenue recognition to stock‑based compensation to technical memos and new standard implementations—to ensure we scale with precision and integrity. If you thrive on solving challenging accounting problems and want to help shape the financial foundation of one of the fastest‑growing companies in tech, this is the team to join.

Reporting directly to the Corporate Controller, the Head of Technical Accounting will play a critical leadership role in Core Weave’s finance function and will lead the Company’s global technical accounting function. The head of technical accounting will act as the primary authority on complex accounting matters and the application of U.S. GAAP and SEC rules. The Head of Technical Accounting will partner closely with the Corporate Controller, finance, legal, investor relations, and cross‑functional leaders and other executives to help inform goals and initiatives.

He/she/they will drive business success by providing responsive and proactive counsel, actionable insights, and high‑quality information to executive decision‑makers, investors, and lenders.

• Provide technical accounting guidance and support for complex transactions and new business initiatives, such as debt/equity financing, customer contracts, business combinations, and investment accounting, including embedded derivatives analysis.
• Lead all areas of global technical accounting policies, including ensuring preparation, review and appropriateness of technical accounting memos for complex transactions such as ASC 842, ASC 360, ASC 606, ASC 470, ASC 718, ASC 815, and ASC 323.
• Develop, write, and maintain the Company’s global accounting policies, and vet requested exceptions to those policies for appropriateness.
• Advise management of potential changes in accounting regulations or practices that may impact operations and reporting, including trends seen in practice. Stay abreast of U.S. GAAP, IFRS, and SEC developments, including participation in outreach with regulators and industry peers.
• Serve as a liaison and work with external auditors on technical accounting matters, including matters that may need discussion with their national office.
• Oversee preparation and submission of SEC filings, including 10‑K’s and 10‑Q’s.
• Work closely with other departments (e.g., Revenue, fixed assets, leasing, FP&A, Tax, Legal, international) to provide accounting expertise and support.
• Work with external valuation specialists to ensure complex transaction valuations are completed on a timely basis, including managing all inputs used in those valuations: derivatives valuation, special transaction valuations, etc.
• Lead, mentor, and develop team members, providing training and development opportunities.
• Manage and perform ad hoc accounting research that supports accounting consultations for business transactions.
• Develop a controlled environment to meet the standards of a publicly traded company, maintaining awareness and conformity to all laws and policies and developing proper procedures and processes, including SOX.
• Leverage IT tools and systems to automate and streamline accounting workflows for efficiency and cost‑effectiveness.
• Create a collaborative finance culture focused on value creation and continuous improvement.
• Build a best‑in‑class technical accounting department, identifying key areas to benchmark against industry peer groups.

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