Anthology Careers

Senior Accountant

Remote - Colombia

*ONLY CVs SUBMITTED IN ENGLISH WILL BE CONSIDERED*

The Opportunity: 

Anthology delivers education and technology solutions so that students can reach their full potential and learning institutions thrive. Our mission is to empower educators and institutions with meaningful innovation that’s simple and intelligent, inspiring student success and institutional growth.

The Power of Together is built on having a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to making diversity, inclusion, and belonging a foundational part of our hiring practices and who we are as a company.

For more information about Anthology and our career opportunities, please visit www.anthology.com. 

This is a senior-level position reporting to the Senior Manager, Financial Reporting with primary responsibility of ensuring proper revenue, expense and balance sheet reporting around our software business. The Senior Accountant, Financial Reporting will play an integral role around revenue recognition and revenue and expense reporting within our Finance and Accounting departments.

Primary responsibilities will include:

• Assisting with data integrity and validation exercises as well as compiling various revenue and expense reporting around our software business (this will involve some contract and invoice vouching)
• Gaining an understanding of the post-merger Anthology business across its products, customers, entities, markets, etc.
• Performing analytical procedures YoY and QoQ on revenue, expense, and balance sheet as needed 
• Assisting with building out and testing reporting requirements based on business needs and requests from upper management 
• Working cross-functionally with IT, Sales, Accounting and Finance while assisting with system integration efforts 
• Attending daily meetings with Accounting and IT and occasional meetings with third parties to discuss requirements as well as results 
• Performing ongoing data validation and change capture analysis across several reports on which the business relies 
• Assisting Accounting and Financial Reporting teams with some month-end close tasks 
• Helping compile and validate GAAP and non-GAAP metrics and KPI’s monthly for management and third parties 
• Assisting with ad-hoc revenue and expense reporting requests from upper management and other parties 
• Assisting with future ERP implementation efforts, primarily around data mapping and data validation between pre-merger legacy accounting systems 

The Candidate:

Required skills/qualifications: 

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in accounting; with 2-5 years’ work-related experience in a relevant position
• Strong work ethic, communication and organizational skills 
• Self-motivated, can multi-task, and ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment 
• Detail oriented with excellent analytic and problem-solving skills 
• Ability to work with varying levels of employees  
• Strong excel skills are critical 
• Fluency in written and spoken English at CEF B2 level or above

Preferred skills/qualifications: 

• Experience with the basic principles of accounting including revenue and accruals 
• Experience working with Dynamics 365, Peoplesoft, SalesForce or PowerBI

This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.

Anthology is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, protected military/veteran status, or any other legally protected factor.