Technical Accounting and Internal Controls Lead
Devens, MA at a glance
- Rent
- #4 of 51$2,230/mo+42% vs US avg
- Weather
- #15 of 51185 mild days0 hot · 107 cold
- Income tax
- #8 of 519% top rateMassachusetts
What you need
- Active CPA required
- 10+ yrs accounting, audit, internal controls, advisory
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
- Strong command of U.S. GAAP, COSO, assertions, ICFR
- Experience building controls program in high-growth, pre-IPO
What you'll do
- Own the controls program and risk-based roadmap
- Define scope and map significant accounts, processes, controls
- Build durable documentation: narratives, flowcharts, risk-control matrices
- Lead technical accounting: research GAAP, document conclusions
- Serve as liaison to external auditors and advisors
What you'll do:
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Own the controls program. Maintain the risk-based roadmap, governance, annual plan, issue log, remediation cadence, and concise management reporting
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Define scope and accountability. Map significant accounts, processes, systems, assertions, risks, controls, and owners; refresh scope as the business evolves
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Build durable documentation. Develop and maintain narratives, flowcharts, risk-and-control matrices, entity-level controls, management review controls, and policies
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Drive remediation and readiness. Identify design and execution gaps, assign owners and dates, verify closure, and prepare priority processes for operating-effectiveness testing and future SOX requirements
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Lead technical accounting. Research and document U.S. GAAP conclusions for complex or unusual transactions and translate them into policies, journal-entry treatment, disclosures, processes, and controls
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Embed controls into operations and systems. Partner across Accounting, FP&A, Legal, IT, People, Supply Chain, and program teams, including during ERP and other finance-system implementations
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Coordinate assurance. Serve as a primary liaison to external auditors and specialized advisors while retaining internal ownership of decisions, evidence standards, and execution
What we’re looking for:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- Active CPA required
- 10+ years in accounting, audit, internal controls, or advisory, with meaningful hands-on responsibility for both technical accounting and control design or SOX readiness. Experience building or materially advancing a controls program in a high-growth, pre-IPO, newly public, or complex public-company environment
- Strong command of U.S. GAAP, COSO, financial statement assertions, and ICFR design and evaluation
- Ability to write clear, defensible accounting memoranda; apply pragmatic, risk-based judgment; influence without direct authority; communicate clearly; and drive work end to end while balancing rigor with business needs
Bonus points for:
- Experience in a high-growth, manufacturing, R&D, project-based, or operationally complex environment
- Experience with Odoo or similar ERP systems
Must-have Requirements:
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About Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) is building SPARC, the world's first net-energy fusion machine. Spun out of MIT, they are commercializing compact fusion power plants using high-temperature superconducting magnets to deliver clean, limitless energy.
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