[Hiring] Senior Accountant @Acuity Insights

Role Description

Put your accounting expertise to work. Help shape what comes next. At Acuity Insights, we’re strengthening our accounting operations, improving our systems, and finding better ways to work. We’re looking for an experienced accountant who can take on complex work independently and help us build a stronger, more effective accounting function.

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.

If you enjoy solving complex accounting problems, sharing what you know, and finding better ways to get things done, there’s a lot here for you to contribute.

Before you apply: This is a fully remote role open to candidates anywhere in Canada. We’re hiring for an existing, open position. You’re welcome to use AI thoughtfully when preparing your application and conversations with our team. Just make sure what you share reflects your own experience, thinking, and judgment. During live conversations, please don’t use AI to generate responses unless invited to do so.

Qualifications

• Strong technical accounting expertise
• Sound judgment and ability to independently own complex work
• Experience with month-end and year-end close, including journal entries and reconciliations
• Understanding of revenue recognition, invoicing, and receivables
• Experience in investigating complex accounting questions and discrepancies
• Support for external audits and maintaining strong documentation
• Improving accounting processes and workflows
• Comfortable working with cloud-based accounting systems
• CPA designation or progress toward one is an asset but not required

Requirements

• Independently own significant areas of month-end and year-end close
• Prepare or support financial reporting
• Investigate complex accounting questions
• Support external audits
• Improve accounting processes and workflows
• Work independently in evolving environments

Benefits

• Transparent compensation: Salary between $95,000 - $105,000 CAD
• $3,000 annual learning budget for development
• Access to employee stock options
• Fully remote work within Canada
• Self-directed vacation and monthly Acuity Days
• Health benefits from day one for you and your dependents
• 2% GRSP matching program
• 16-week parental leave top-up beyond EI

Company Description

At Acuity Insights, we build research-backed technology that helps higher education institutions better understand people, make informed decisions, and support learner development. Our products support institutions and learners at different stages, from identifying potential and making fairer admissions decisions to supporting education, professional development, and growth.

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.