Corporate Accountant owning reconciliations, journal entries, royalties and month - end close. Supporting IFRS reporting and process improvement at Canadian K - 12 publisher Nelson Education.
About the role
- Senior Accountant owning close, revenue accounting, reporting, and systems improvements at Acuity Insights. Supporting research-backed technology that helps education institutions understand people and develop learners.
Responsibilities
- 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
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