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About the Role

As our Senior Accountant, you’ll own significant areas of the accounting cycle, from close and financial reporting to revenue, reconciliations, and audit readiness. You’ll also help strengthen the accuracy and reliability of our financial and business reporting, including recurring revenue metrics, while contributing accounting insights to budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis. You’ll work closely with our Controller and alongside a small accounting team, bringing the judgment to work through complex accounting questions, identify root causes, and see issues through to resolution. Your experience will also help strengthen the team through shared knowledge, guidance, and better ways of working. There’s plenty to improve and build. We’re preparing for a new accounting system, exploring automation and AI, and reducing the manual work that slows us down. You’ll have the opportunity to lead meaningful improvements while helping make our accounting processes more reliable and scalable.

Responsibilities

Own complex accounting work, including complex journal entries and reconciliations, month-end and year-end close, financial reporting, and audit support.
Review reconciliations and supporting schedules prepared by the team, investigate unusual items, and ensure the close is complete and ready for Controller review.
Dig into the details, investigate root causes, and use sound judgment to recommend the right path forward for complex accounting questions or discrepancies.
Strengthen revenue accounting and reporting, including revenue recognition, deferred revenue, reconciliations, and related reporting.
Connect business activity with accounting records by working with teammates responsible for invoicing, receivables, and recurring revenue schedules.
Review accounting outputs, investigate discrepancies, and resolve complex or unusual transactions related to revenue.
Ensure revenue is recognized appropriately, supporting schedules reconcile to the general ledger, and financial and business reporting is accurate and reliable.
Ensure the accounting information behind financial and business reporting is accurate, consistent, and reliable, including the preparation and reconciliation of recurring revenue metrics.
Contribute accounting insights and historical context 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 accounting expertise to the transition to a new accounting platform, including defining requirements, improving workflows, data validation, testing, and migration.
Take ownership of meaningful improvements that make accounting systems and processes more efficient, reliable, and easier to use.
Identify recurring problems, unnecessary manual work, and opportunities to simplify processes, strengthen controls, and use automation or AI thoughtfully.
Turn improvement opportunities into practical improvements, while strengthening documentation, sharing knowledge, and building better coverage across the team.
Work closely with people across the business, including Accounting teammates, Revenue Operations, People & Culture, Leaders and budget owners, and external partners.
Build an understanding of Acuity’s business, accounting cycle, systems, and controls within the first three months.
Begin taking ownership of key accounting responsibilities, building relationships across the business, and identifying opportunities to improve how work gets done within the first three months.
Independently own significant areas of the accounting cycle, confidently work through complex reconciliations and accounting questions, and identify issues before they become problems within six months.
Turn improvement opportunities into practical changes within six months.
Be a trusted source of accounting expertise, handling complex work with minimal guidance and contributing improvements beyond your own responsibilities by the end of your first year.
Contribute to stronger processes, better controls, and greater shared knowledge and coverage across Accounting by the end of your first year.

Requirements

Strong technical accounting expertise.
Sound judgment.
Ability to independently own complex work.
Experience 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, ensuring the underlying accounting records are accurate, complete, and well supported.
Experience working across revenue recognition, invoicing, receivables, or other core accounting activities, with an understanding of how they connect through the accounting cycle.
Experience investigating complex accounting questions and discrepancies, applying accounting principles and professional judgment to determine the right path forward.
Experience supporting external audits and maintaining strong documentation, controls, and audit readiness.
Experience improving accounting processes, workflows, or systems to reduce manual work, strengthen reliability, and make the work more efficient.
Experience working independently in evolving environments, knowing when to make decisions, collaborate, or escalate.
Comfortable working with cloud-based accounting systems and learning new technology.
CPA designation, or progress toward one, is an asset but not required. Equivalent expertise developed through experience is equally valued.

Skills

Accounting expertise
Financial reporting
Revenue accounting
Reconciliations
Audit readiness
Budgeting
Forecasting
Financial analysis
Cash management
Process improvement
Systems implementation
Automation
AI
Collaboration
Problem-solving
Communication
Judgment
Reliable follow-through
Documentation
Knowledge sharing

Location

Remote within Canada

Work Type

Fully remote
Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

CPA designation or progress toward one is an asset but not required. Equivalent expertise developed through experience is equally valued.

Salary/Compensations

$95,000 - $105,000 CAD

Benefits

$3,000 annual learning budget
Employee stock options
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

About the Company

Acuity Insights builds research-backed technology that helps higher education institutions better understand people, make informed decisions, and support learner development.
We believe people are more than their grades, and that human potential can be understood, nurtured, and developed throughout the educational journey.
Our products support institutions and learners at different stages, from identifying potential and making fairer admissions decisions to supporting education, professional development, and growth.
Our Casper situational judgment test, developed by researchers at McMaster University, has been completed by over 1 million applicants and is backed by nearly 20 years of research.
We’re building toward a more connected ecosystem that brings together assessment, education, and development.
By combining research, technology, and responsible AI, we aim to help institutions make better decisions, create more meaningful learning experiences, and support people in reaching their potential.
We’re at a point in our evolution where the work we do today is helping shape what’s possible tomorrow. And the people who join us will have an opportunity to contribute to that future.
We’re a remote-first team of 135+ people, built around trust, flexibility, and giving people meaningful ownership of their work.
Remote-first doesn’t mean working in isolation. We collaborate closely across teams, communicate thoughtfully across time zones, and create intentional opportunities to connect, while protecting the flexibility and focus that make remote work valuable.

Equal Opportunity

We review every application carefully. Whether you apply directly, are referred, or connect through a recruiter or hiring manager, you’ll receive equal consideration.
We don’t use AI to evaluate applications, though you may be automatically screened out if you don’t meet baseline requirements (e.g. Canadian residency and valid work authorization).
In some interviews, AI may help with note-taking, but all evaluations and decisions are made by real humans.
Our interviews are two-way conversations. We want to understand your career, abilities, and goals, and help you assess whether this opportunity and team are the right fit for you.