Billings and Collections Specialist

Cerebras · Semiconductors · Headquarters +1 · Finance

This role is for a Senior Billing and Collections Analyst at Cerebras, a company that builds large AI chips. The analyst will manage the full order-to-invoice cycle, ensuring accurate and timely billing for hardware, professional services, and compute usage. Responsibilities include month-end close activities, translating contract terms into invoices in NetSuite, managing adjustments, and supporting collections by resolving billing inquiries and issues. The role requires strong attention to detail, problem-solving skills, and cross-functional collaboration to improve billing accuracy and scalability.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own end-to-end billing across hardware, professional services, and compute services, ensuring accurate and timely invoicing.
  2. Perform month-end billing close activities by coordinating inputs from internal teams, validating period activity including compute usage, and resolving exceptions before invoicing.
  3. Execute billing in NetSuite by translating contract terms and operational activity into accurate invoices, billing schedules, and supporting documentation.
  4. Manage billing adjustments including credits, credit memos or notes, voids, and rebills with appropriate approvals, audit-ready support, and clear root-cause tracking.
  5. Support collections by ensuring invoices meet customer requirements including portal submissions, responding to billing inquiries, and resolving issues that delay payment.

Skills

Required

  • 4–7 years of progressive billing or finance operations experience, including ownership of month-end billing close
  • Hands-on NetSuite experience
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including large data sets, pivot tables, and complex formulas
  • Strong attention to detail with proven ability to reconcile billing data, investigate variances, and drive issues to resolution
  • Strong understanding of billing operations, including invoicing, credits and adjustments, and invoice support documentation
  • Understanding of internal controls and maintaining audit-ready billing documentation
  • Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills; ability to operate independently in a lean environment

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field
  • experience with Advanced Revenue Management (ARM)
  • Experience billing across multiple revenue streams, including hardware, professional services, and usage-based or consumption services
  • Experience improving billing processes through documentation, standardization, and automation

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