Director of Accounting, Nuclear

The role

The Director of Accounting, Nuclear serves as the controllership lead across Nuclear businesses, including deployment projects and Services operations. This role owns the integrity of financial results, month-end close, accounting policy, and internal controls across various entities.

What you will do

• Own accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of Nuclear financial results and project reporting.
• Ensure consistent application of U.S. GAAP across service contracts, projects, and joint ventures.
• Lead accounting for revenue recognition, project costs, construction in progress, and consolidation.
• Establish accounting and reporting for deployment projects, new entities, and Services businesses.
• Lead accounting diligence for acquisitions and purchase accounting.
• Integrate acquired businesses into company policies, close processes, and control environments.
• Integrate new and acquired businesses into ERP and finance systems.
• Support SOX and internal control over financial reporting implementation.
• Build and develop the Nuclear accounting function.
• Provide leadership and technical direction while remaining hands-on in accounting tasks.

Required qualifications

• 10 or more years of progressive accounting and controllership experience, including a senior accounting leadership role.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or a related field.
• Strong technical accounting foundation under U.S. GAAP across project-based services businesses and capital-intensive development or construction activities.
• Experience in a complex, multi-entity environment involving joint ventures, special-purpose vehicles, projects, or acquired businesses.
• Demonstrated ownership of month-end close, financial reporting, and consolidation into a corporate parent.
• Experience leading acquisition and purchase accounting activities and integrating acquired businesses onto common systems, policies, processes, and controls.
• Experience establishing or improving scalable close processes, internal controls, and audit-ready financial reporting capabilities in a growing organization.
• Ability to lead and develop accounting teams while remaining hands-on.

Nice to have

• CPA and public accounting experience, ideally with a Big Four firm.
• Experience implementing SOX and internal control over financial reporting requirements or preparing an organization for public-company reporting.
• Experience within nuclear energy, utilities, construction, infrastructure, industrial services, or another highly regulated sector.
• Hands-on experience with ERP implementation, integrations of 3rd party applications into ERPs.
• NetSuite experience is preferred.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation packages
• 401k with company match
• Medical, dental, vision plans
• Generous vacation policy, plus holidays

Before you apply

• Candidates must live within commuting distance of Columbia, South Carolina or Washington, D.C. or be willing to relocate.
• Certain positions may involve access to information and technology subject to export controls under U.S. law.

About the company

The Nuclear Company is an AI tech-enabled startup in the nuclear and energy space. They use a design-once, build-many model to accelerate the deployment of nuclear energy.