Senior Accountant, Fastly
$89.9-126.9k
This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs
Edge cloud platform
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Edge cloud platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$89.9-126.9k
This role may be eligible to participate in Fastly’s equity and discretionary bonus programs
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build a better internet — a safe place where good can thrive.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related field
- 3+ years of experience in corporate or public accounting
- Familiarity with global accounting operations and U.S. GAAP (ASC 360 & ASC 350-40)
- Detail-oriented, well-organized, and dependable
- Strong Excel skills (XLOOKUP, pivot tables)
- Able to work independently with general direction and communicate effectively across teams
- Comfortable taking ownership of tasks, asking thoughtful questions, and seeing work through to completion
Desirable
- Audit experience and CPA a plus
- Experience with NetSuite, FloQast, Coupa, and G-Suite a plus
- Demonstrates the ability to responsibly use AI tools to enhance workflows and deliver measurable gains in efficiency and quality
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Senior Accountant to join our Accounting team. In this role, you’ll support Fixed Asset and Internal Use Software accounting
- You’ll play a key part in maintaining accurate financial records through journal entries, reconciliations, variance analysis, and KPI updates with an emphasis on SOX-compliant processes and cross-functional coordination
- This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working independently with general direction, proactively communicates progress and takes ownership of their deliverables
- You’ll be part of a collaborative and technically savvy team that values continuous learning, system improvement, and operational excellence
- Own and execute full-cycle Fixed Asset and Internal Use Software accounting including: review of new equipment purchases for capitalization, assess portfolio for impairment triggers, review equipment purchase agreements, input fixed assets into the subledger, review internal-use software development, generate and post journal entries, assess and record accruals, prepare variance analysis, prepare disclosures, and partner with FP&A on Budget vs Actual analysis
- Update key accounting metrics and support KPI tracking during month-end close
- Collaborate with Supply Chain, Product, and Engineering teams to resolve issues and ensure completeness and accuracy of upstream information
- Proactively communicate task status, escalate issues as needed, and follow through on deliverables
- Support additional accounting tasks and evolving team needs as assigned — this role will grow over time, and flexibility to take on new responsibilities is key
Our take
Internet users around the world have come to expect personalized, real-time digital experiences, but delivering these quickly and securely, while maintaining quality, can be a difficult task for businesses.
Fastly enables the companies to deliver fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. Its edge cloud platform moves data and applications closer to end-users — improving the user experience, putting the power back in developers’ hands, and enabling clients to focus on growing their businesses.
The company has helped several high-profile businesses, including Reddit, Pinterest, Stripe, EPIC Games, and more. Its offering is well-regarded in the space, demonstrated by it being named a 2022 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Customers’ Choice for Global CDN, as well as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Edge Development Platforms, Q4 2023 report.
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2019
$40m
SERIES F
Jul 2018
$40m
SERIES F
Total funding: $259m
Company benefits
- Parental support and beyond: We support our families by offering generous time off for parental leave. And beyond that, we work hard to build a culture that allows for all employees to have the life outside work that they desire year round.
- Health and wellness: Your well-being matters here. Our health plans offer a variety of options, including full medical, dental, and vision coverage, short- and long-term disability insurance, mental health resources, and more.
- Invest in your future: We offer 401(k)/retirement plans, employee stock purchasing plans (ESPP), and reimbursements for learning and development programs — so we can support your ongoing growth and success.
- Keep learning and growing: Helping people go further means nurturing their talent. Through annual reimbursements for employee learning activities, regular hangouts and advice from our Senior Staff, talks from industry leaders, and cultural events — we offer tons of opportunities for people to learn. And we’re always looking to grow as a company, too: we collect employee engagement and experience data annually and leverage our Employee Experience Champion Network to understand employee feedback, so we can keep improving.
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Kip Compton
(CEO)Kip joined the Fastly team in 2024 as CPO, becoming CEO in 2025. Prior to this, he was an SVP of Strategy & Business Development/Networking at Cisco.
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