Technical Accounting and Internal Controls Lead

Location: Hybrid role in Devens, Massachusetts, United States. The role requires work in a facility with industrial hazards, including heat, cold, noise, fumes, strong magnets, lead, high voltage, high current, pressure systems, and cryogenics.

Company

hirify.global Systems develops fusion energy technology in a complex operational and manufacturing environment.

What you will do

• Own the risk-based controls program, including the roadmap, governance, annual plan, issue log, remediation cadence, and management reporting.
• Map significant accounts, processes, systems, assertions, risks, controls, and owners, and refresh the scope as the business evolves.
• Develop and maintain accounting-control documentation, including narratives, flowcharts, risk-and-control matrices, entity-level controls, management review controls, and policies.
• Identify design and execution gaps, assign remediation owners and deadlines, verify closure, and prepare priority processes for operating-effectiveness testing and future SOX requirements.
• Research and document U.S. GAAP conclusions for complex or unusual transactions and translate them into policies, journal-entry treatment, disclosures, processes, and controls.
• Partner with Accounting, FP&A, Legal, IT, People, Supply Chain, and program teams, including during ERP and finance-system implementations; coordinate with external auditors and specialized advisors.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Active CPA certification is required.
• 10+ years of experience 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.
• Ability to perform extended activities such as typing, standing, sitting, and walking.
• Availability for occasional nights, weekends, or on-call work during payroll processing, month-end close, audit and compliance deadlines, system issues, or urgent operational escalations.
• Compliance with U.S. laws concerning the export of controlled or protected technologies or information is required.

Nice to have

• Experience in a high-growth, manufacturing, R&D, project-based, or operationally complex environment.
• Experience with Odoo or similar ERP systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time hybrid work arrangement.
• Competitive compensation with equity.
• 13 company-wide holidays, flexible vacation days, and 10 sick days.
• Generous parental leave policy and health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with employer matching, professional growth opportunities, and team-building activities.