Accounting Manager
Automate your job search with Sonara.
Submit 10x as many applications with less effort than one manual application.1
Reclaim your time by letting our AI handle the grunt work of job searching.
We continuously scan millions of openings to find your top matches.
Job Description
About Fuse
We’re a small, high-velocity crew building pulsed-power fusion systems—shipping hardware, firing shots, and iterating fast. Our mission: accelerate the world’s transition to fusion energy, with a proven MagLIF-driven path and real programs that serve government and commercial customers along the way.
About the Role
We are searching for Fuse’s first in-house accounting hire—the nucleus that turns fast engineering into clean books and crisp reporting. Reporting to the Head of Finance, you’ll build the foundations (COA, policies, close cadence), wrangle multi-entity consolidation, and make sure every shot, brick, and BOM shows up in the right place on the financial statements.
What You’ll Do
Own the close: GL integrity, reconciliations, month/quarter close, and full financial statements.
Architect the COA: Design and maintain a chart of accounts that maps to hardware, programs, sites, and cost centers.
Consolidate cleanly: Roll multi-entity operations into one set of financials; manage eliminations and interco.
Run payables/receivables: Bills, invoices, vendor payments, collections; keep cash tight and visible.
Banking & controls: Execute transactions within approval chains; safeguard day-to-day cash management.
Vendors & auditors: Direct and review external accounting firms in the U.S. and Canada; standardize inputs and outputs.
Procure-to-post: Partner with BizOps/FP&A to set up POs/BOMs for R&D, manufacturing, and facilities; track receipt, capitalization, and expense.
Reporting & handoffs: Deliver internal/external packs; feed FP&A with timely, accurate actuals and drivers.
Compliance: Execute statutory, fiduciary, and regulatory filings across federal/state/provincial/local bodies.
Learn the rigs: Build enough hardware fluency to translate spend into the right accounting treatment.
About You
OCD-level detail—the person we’d trust with our life savings.
Controller instincts, startup tempo: close fast without cutting corners; improve the close every cycle.
Polished communicator: clear memos, crisp walkthroughs; calm in board-adjacent settings.
Systems-savvy: ERP foundations, strong spreadsheets; online banking workflows.
Cross-functional translator: comfortable with engineers, procurement, vendors.
IR/FP&A friendly: package numbers for leaders/investors and anticipate follow-ups.
Credentials/experience: Bachelor’s in Accounting/Finance (CPA a plus); 2–4+ years progressive accounting ; breadth across GL/COA/financial statements with exposure to procurement, fixed assets, AP/AR; manufacturing/cost experience a plus; QuickBooks Online familiarity is helpful
Bonus Points
Startup time in defense, energy, or advanced hardware.
Built policies from scratch (cap policy, expense, vendor onboarding, close checklists).
Curiosity for pulsed power/fusion and learning fast.
Automate your job search with Sonara.
Submit 10x as many applications with less effort than one manual application.