Why This Role Matters

As Controller, you will be responsible for all accounting and financial operations activities for Pacific Fusion. You will work to build and optimize processes and enable the engineers and scientists across the organization as they bring our demonstration system online.

What You'll Do

  • Execute a monthly close process including producing monthly financial statements
  • Oversee all aspects of financial operations including accounts payable, payroll and accounts receivable
  • Produce quarterly financial reporting including plan to actuals and associated analysis
  • Work across the finance team to update the corporate forecast each quarter
  • Perform ad hoc analysis as requested to support various leadership initiatives
  • Drive efficiency across financial operations processes
  • Develop and support a team of six accounting personnel

What You Bring

  • At least four years of public accounting experience
  • Experience owning the end to end month end close process for a hardware company
  • Experience creating new operational processes and ensuring continued improvement of those processes over time
  • Experience compiling financial details into cohesive and comprehensive executive summaries for consumption by various levels of leadership

Bonus Points For

  • Experience in a public company SOX environment
  • Experience working in a startup
  • Experience implementing finance-touching software tools
  • Experience working in industries such as: fusion, energy, aerospace, automotive or manufacturing
  • Experience working closely with PhD scientists and R&D technology organizations