Senior Accountant

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $95k - $105k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💲 Accountant / Accounting

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Acuity Insights

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2014

🏥 Healthcare

📚 Education

🔬 Science

💰 Private Equity Round on 2021-08

Healthcare • Education • Science

Acuity Insights is a company focused on enhancing the educational experience of applicants and students across various programs. Through its innovative platforms, including One45 and Casper, Acuity provides holistic admissions tools and analytics solutions that aim to identify potential leaders, improve student success, and manage health sciences programs efficiently. Trusted by over 600 educational partners worldwide, Acuity Insights enables institutions to measure applicants' social intelligence, professionalism, and alignment with educational missions, ultimately facilitating a pathway to success from admissions to graduation.

📋 Description

• Own significant areas of the accounting cycle, including complex journal entries, reconciliations, month-end and year-end close, financial reporting, and audit support • Review team-prepared reconciliations and supporting schedules, investigate unusual items, and prepare the close for Controller review • Investigate root causes of complex accounting questions and discrepancies and recommend appropriate resolutions • Provide senior-level review and oversight of revenue accounting, including revenue recognition, deferred revenue, reconciliations, and related reporting • Connect contracts, billing, revenue, and accounting records with Revenue Operations and related teammates • Ensure revenue recognition, supporting schedules, general ledger reconciliations, and financial and business reporting are accurate • Prepare and reconcile recurring revenue metrics • Contribute accounting insights to financial analysis, budgeting, and forecasting • Support cash management through short-term cash forecasting, cash flow variance analysis, and visibility into upcoming cash requirements • Contribute to the transition to a new accounting platform through requirements definition, workflow improvements, data validation, testing, and migration • Identify manual work and recurring problems and improve processes, controls, documentation, automation, and AI usage • Report to the Controller and collaborate with Accounting, Revenue Operations, People & Culture, leaders, budget owners, auditors, and other Finance partners • Build knowledge of the business, accounting systems, processes, and controls during onboarding • Help the team work toward a five-business-day close

🎯 Requirements

• Strong technical accounting expertise and sound judgment • Independently owning significant areas of month-end and year-end close, including journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, working papers, and general ledger accounting • Experience preparing or supporting financial reporting • Experience with revenue recognition, invoicing, receivables, or other core accounting activities • Experience investigating complex accounting questions and discrepancies • Experience supporting external audits and maintaining documentation, controls, and audit readiness • Experience improving accounting processes, workflows, or systems • Ability to work independently in evolving environments and know when to decide, collaborate, or escalate • Comfortable working with cloud-based accounting systems and learning new technology • Canadian residency and valid work authorization • CPA designation or progress toward one is an asset but not required • Additional valuable experience with recurring revenue reporting, deferred revenue, budgeting, forecasting, cash management, or accounting system implementations • Familiarity with Xero, Dext, Airwallex, Plooto, or Stripe is not required

🏖️ Benefits

• $3,000 annual learning budget • Employee stock options • Fully remote within Canada, with up to six weeks per year to work internationally • Self-directed vacation (most teammates take 4–6 weeks annually) • Monthly Acuity Days (a collective Friday off) • Two-week company-wide closure each December • Health benefits from day one for you and your dependents • 2% GRSP matching program • 16-week parental leave top-up beyond EI, available to all parents • High trust and autonomy • Thoughtful, async-friendly communication across a distributed team • Opportunities to share ideas and perspectives • Culture of curiosity, continuous learning, and thoughtful experimentation