accountant

The Company As the largest Canadian-owned and operated K-12 publisher, Nelson Education Ltd. is Canada's only heritage education content provider, known for its innovative products and solutions catering to learners across the country.

Nelson is on a mission to make learning accessible, engaging, and effective for all. That's why Nelson continuously strives to create dynamic curriculum-aligned content that caters to diverse learning styles, fostering critical thinking, creativity, and lifelong learning.

In response to the evolving education landscape, Nelson developed Edwin?a safe, digital sandbox with trusted, curriculum-aligned resources. Edwin is a learning platform for classroom success, providing content, tools, and support to help every educator and student thrive.

About the Role Nelson Education is seeking a Corporate Accountant to join the Accounting team, reporting to the Manager, Accounting. The Corporate Accountant plays a key role in the monthly financial close, with responsibility for preparing and maintaining account reconciliations, journal entries, supporting schedules and analysis across the balance sheet.

The role is accountable for the accuracy and completeness of the accounts it owns and is expected to understand and explain the activity behind those balances. The Corporate Accountant also supports the external audit, contributes to process documentation and improvement, and works closely with colleagues across Finance and the business to ensure accounting information is complete and reliable.

This is an opportunity for an accountant with hands-on month-end experience to take ownership of increasingly complex areas, build deeper IFRS and systems expertise, and grow toward broader financial reporting responsibility with direct coaching from the Manager, Accounting.

Key Accountabilities Month-End Close & Account Reconciliations

• Own assigned areas of the monthly close, including account reconciliations, journal entries, supporting schedules and balance sheet roll forwards, ensuring balances are accurate, supported and fully explained.
• Prepare and maintain accounting schedules and entries for areas such as accruals, fixed assets, intangible assets, royalties and other assigned accounts.
• Prepare royalty calculations, author and licensor statements, accruals and payment schedules in accordance with contract terms, and prepare the annual tax reporting for royalty recipients, including T4A and related slips.
• Prepare or support GST/HST and other indirect tax filings and reconciliations for assigned accounts.
• Investigate and resolve reconciling items, unusual movements and accounting issues, partnering with the Manager, Accounting on matters requiring judgment or review before entries are posted.
• Manage assigned close activities in accordance with the close calendar, proactively identifying and escalating issues that could affect deadlines or financial reporting.
• Prepare analysis and variance explanations for accounts owned and contribute to the monthly financial reporting process.

Analysis & Reporting Support

• Prepare supporting schedules and respond to audit requests for assigned accounts, ensuring information is complete, accurate and provided on a timely basis.
• Support the preparation of annual financial statement disclosures and other financial reporting requirements.
• Support financial analysis and reporting activities, including gross margin and SG&A analysis, through data extraction, reconciliation and analysis.

Process Ownership & Improvement

• Own and maintain documented procedures for assigned accounting areas, ensuring processes are current, well controlled and