senior accountant
About the company
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.
Your tasks
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.
The Work You?ll Do In your first few weeks, you?ll get to know Acuity?s business, current accounting systems, processes, and controls, working alongside our Controller and accounting team to understand how things work today and where we can improve.
We?re working toward a five-business-day close, and you?ll play an important role in helping us get there.
Own complex accounting work You?ll own significant areas of the accounting cycle, including complex journal entries and reconciliations, month-end and year-end close, financial reporting, and audit support. You?ll also review reconciliations and supporting schedules prepared by the team, investigate unusual items, and ensure the close is complete and ready for Controller review.
When accounting questions are complex or something doesn?t reconcile, you?ll dig into the details, investigate root causes, and use sound judgment to recommend the right path forward. Your work will help us build a faster, more reliable close supported by strong processes and controls.
Strengthen revenue accounting and reporting You?ll provide senior-level review and oversight of revenue accounting, including revenue recognition, deferred revenue, reconciliations, and related reporting. Working with teammates responsible for invoicing, receivables, and recurring revenue schedules, you?ll connect business activity with accounting records.
You?ll review accounting outputs, investigate discrepancies, and resolve complex or unusual transactions. You?ll help ensure revenue is recognized appropriately, supporting schedules reconcile to the general ledger, and financial and business reporting is accurate and reliable..
Turn accounting information into reliable financial insight You?ll help ensure the accounting information behind our financial and business reporting is accurate, consistent, and reliable, including the prepa
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_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._