Senior Accountant

Acuity Insights

6d • Remote

About The Position

Acuity Insights is hiring an experienced Senior Accountant to independently own significant areas of the accounting cycle and help strengthen its accounting operations, systems, and processes. The role covers month-end and year-end close, financial reporting, revenue accounting, reconciliations, and audit readiness, while contributing reliable financial and business reporting—including recurring revenue metrics—and accounting insights for budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis.

Reporting to the Controller and working with a small accounting team, the Senior Accountant will investigate complex accounting questions, identify root causes, and resolve issues with sound judgment. The position also contributes to preparing for a new accounting platform, improving workflows, validating and migrating data, and using automation or AI thoughtfully to reduce manual work and make accounting processes more reliable and scalable. It is fully remote and open to candidates anywhere in Canada.

Requirements

• Strong technical accounting expertise, sound judgment, and the 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 and ensuring 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.
• Ability to investigate complex accounting questions and discrepancies and apply accounting principles and professional judgment.
• 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, or improve efficiency.
• Ability to work independently in evolving environments and judge when to decide, collaborate, or escalate.
• Comfort working with cloud-based accounting systems and learning new technology.
• Canadian residency and valid work authorization are cited as baseline application requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with recurring revenue reporting, deferred revenue, budgeting, forecasting, cash management, or accounting system implementations.
• CPA designation or progress toward one; not required, and equivalent expertise developed through experience is valued.
• Familiarity with Xero, Dext, Airwallex, Plooto, or Stripe; experience with these specific tools is not required.

Responsibilities

• Own significant areas of the accounting cycle, 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 close work is complete and ready for Controller review.
• Investigate complex accounting questions and discrepancies, identify root causes, and recommend appropriate actions using professional judgment.
• Provide senior-level review and oversight of revenue accounting, including revenue recognition, deferred revenue, reconciliations, and related reporting.
• Work with teammates responsible for invoicing, receivables, and recurring revenue schedules to connect business activity with accounting records and resolve unusual transactions.
• Help ensure revenue is appropriately recognized, supporting schedules reconcile to the general ledger, and financial and business reporting is accurate and reliable.
• Prepare and reconcile recurring revenue metrics and 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 requirements definition, workflow improvement, data validation, testing, and migration.
• Identify opportunities to simplify processes, strengthen controls, reduce manual work, and use automation or AI thoughtfully; help implement practical improvements.
• Strengthen documentation, share knowledge, and build better coverage across the accounting team.
• Work with colleagues across Accounting, Revenue Operations, People & Culture, business leaders and budget owners, auditors, and other Finance partners.
• Build understanding of Acuity’s business, accounting systems, processes, and controls, and take increasing ownership of key accounting responsibilities.

Benefits

• Salary of $95,000–$105,000 CAD.
• $3,000 annual learning budget.
• Access to employee stock options.
• Fully remote work 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) and a two-week company-wide closure each December.
• Health benefits from day one for the employee and dependents.
• 2% GRSP matching program.
• 16-week parental leave top-up beyond EI, available to all parents.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed