Senior Accountant
Role Overview
Acuity Insights is strengthening its accounting operations, systems, and processes and seeks an experienced accountant for complex independent work.
The Senior Accountant will own significant accounting-cycle areas and help improve financial and business reporting, including recurring revenue metrics.
The role works closely with the Controller and a small accounting team.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Acuity Insights is strengthening its accounting operations, systems, and processes and seeks an experienced accountant for complex independent work.
The Senior Accountant will own significant accounting-cycle areas and help improve financial and business reporting, including recurring revenue metrics.
The role works closely with the Controller and a small accounting team.
Accounting close and complex work
- Own complex journal entries, reconciliations, month-end and year-end close, financial reporting, and audit support.
- Review team reconciliations and supporting schedules, investigate unusual items, and prepare complete close work for Controller review.
- Investigate complex accounting questions and root causes, recommend resolutions, and strengthen close processes and controls.
- Contribute to the goal of a five-business-day close.
Revenue and financial insight
- Provide senior review of revenue recognition, deferred revenue, reconciliations, and related reporting.
- Connect invoicing, receivables, and recurring revenue schedules with accounting records; investigate discrepancies and unusual transactions.
- Prepare and reconcile recurring revenue metrics and support accurate financial and business reporting.
- Contribute accounting insight to financial analysis, budgeting, and forecasting; support short-term cash forecasting and cash flow variance analysis.
Systems and process improvement
- Contribute to a new accounting platform transition by defining requirements, improving workflows, validating data, testing, and supporting migration.
- Identify recurring problems and manual work and develop practical process, control, documentation, and automation improvements.
- Share knowledge and help strengthen the accounting team and ways of working.
Requirements and working style
- Able to own complex accounting work independently and exercise sound judgment.
- Experience spanning accounting close, reporting, revenue, reconciliations, and audit readiness.
- Able to investigate root causes, resolve complex issues, and contribute to budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis.
- Work closely with the Controller and accounting teammates.
Workplace
- Fully remote role open to candidates anywhere in Canada.
Application note
- The employer says this is an existing, open position and permits thoughtful AI use when preparing application materials, while asking candidates to represent their own experience and judgment.
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