Senior Accountant
Acuity Insights
Senior Accountant
Acuity Insights
Higher-ed admissions assessment and analytics platform
Acuity Insights · Toronto, Canada (Remote) · Other · Posted 2026-10-19
Salary: CAD 95,000–105,000
Workplace: remote
Department: Accounting
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.
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 preparation and reconciliation of recurring revenue metrics.
You’ll contribute accounting insights and historical context to financial analysis, budgeting, and forecasting, helping the business make informed decisions. You’ll also support cash management through short-term cash forecasting, cash flow variance analysis, and visibility into upcoming cash requirements.
Help modernize our accounting systems
We’re preparing to move to a new accounting platform. You’ll contribute your accounting expertise to the transition, from defining requirements and improving workflows to data validation, testing, and migration.
You’ll also have opportunities to take ownership of meaningful improvements that make our systems and processes more efficient, reliable, and easier to use.
Improve how Accounting works
You’ll look beyond your own responsibilities to identify recurring problems, unnecessary manual work, and opportunities to simplify processes, strengthen controls, and use automation or AI thoughtfully.
You’ll help turn those opportunities into practical improvements, while strengthening documentation, sharing knowledge, and building better coverage across the team.
The goal is an accounting function that spends less time moving information around and more time on the work where expertise and judgment matter.
You’ll report to our Controller and work alongside a small team of accountants. You’ll have meaningful ownership of your work while sharing knowledge, solving problems together, and helping strengthen how Accounting operates.
Accounting connects to almost every part of Acuity, so you’ll work closely with people across the business:
You’ll work with a high degree of independence, but not in isolation. You’ll know when to make decisions, when to bring others in, and how to build trust through clear communication, sound judgment, and reliable follow-through.
In your first three months, you’ll build an understanding of Acuity’s business, accounting cycle, systems, and controls. You’ll begin taking ownership of key accounting responsibilities, building relationships across the business, and identifying opportunities to improve how work gets done.
By six months, you’ll independently own significant areas of the accounting cycle, confidently work through complex reconciliations and accounting questions, and identify issues before they become problems. You’ll also begin turning improvement opportunities into practical changes.
By the end of your first year, you’ll be a trusted source of accounting expertise, handling complex work with minimal guidance and contributing improvements beyond your own responsibilities. Your impact will be visible in stronger processes, better controls, and greater shared knowledge and coverage across Accounting.
You’ll likely thrive here if you:
As the Finance function evolves, you’ll have opportunities to deepen your expertise, take on broader ownership, and contribute to larger systems and process improvements.
You’ll bring strong technical accounting expertise, sound judgment, and the ability to independently own complex work. Your experience will include:
Additional experience that would be valuable: Recurring revenue reporting, deferred revenue, budgeting, forecasting, cash management, or accounting system implementations.
Our current Finance systems include Xero, Dext, Airwallex, Plooto, and Stripe. You don’t need experience with these specific tools, but you should be comfortable working with cloud-based accounting systems and learning new technology.
A CPA designation, or progress toward one, is an asset but not required. Equivalent expertise developed through experience is equally valued.
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.
Steps in the Process
Our hiring process typically takes 2–4 weeks from initial conversation to final decision.
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.
Day to day, you can expect:
As we grow, we’re deliberate about evolving how we work without adding process for process’s sake. We want people to have the clarity, context, relationships, and room to make good decisions, challenge assumptions, and contribute to work that matters.
At Acuity Insights, we build 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.
Today, 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.
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Acuity Insights provides admissions assessment, program management, and analytics software for higher education. Casper is an online situational judgment test with video and text-based scenarios whose open-ended responses are rated by human raters to assess traits like ethics and collaboration, while Duet compares applicant values with program offerings for value alignment (primarily in U.S. medical programs). The company also owns One45, a medical education program management platform that covers the student lifecycle from admissions to graduation. Operating on a private equity-backed SaaS model and serving over 600 programs worldwide, Acuity integrates assessment data with lifecycle analytics to support decisions across admissions and student outcomes, differentiating itself through an end-to-end, data-driven approach to holistic admissions and program management with a longitudinal view of performance.
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