Senior Accountant

Primer is a growing network of K8 schools restoring the timeless foundations of American education. Inspired by the original teaching primers that shaped a nation of readers thinkers and builders our schools begin with what has always worked and build for what lies ahead. Close-knit learning environments. Skilled educators. A culture that takes kids seriously as learners and leaders.

Primers shaped the first 200 years of American children. Primer will ready them for the next.

The Role

Primer is looking to hire a Senior Accountant to help lead our Finance department into the next step of its evolution. You will own revenue recognition lead our multi-entity consolidations review AP and jump into finance projects as we grow across a network that runs on PrimerOS. Youll report to the Controller and work closely with our CFO. This is a hands-on seat not an oversight-only one.

What Youll Do

• Own monthly revenue recognition across our revenue streams (state scholarship/agency tuition aftercare credits) under ASC 606 including deferred revenue schedules that tie to the GL.

• Lead monthly consolidations across our state entities into one corporate roll-up including flux analysis inter-company eliminations and tie-outs.

• Review AP: card and bill coding vendor reconciliations and month-end accruals prepared by the broader team.

• Run point on finance projects: new entity/campus setup process builds and ad hoc analysis for the Controller and CFO.

• Work daily in Cowork (Claude) alongside NetSuite Ramp and Google Sheets: pulling data building tie-outs and automating the parts of close that shouldnt take up a persons time. Its been months since our team closed a set of books without it.

What Youll Bring

• 4 years of accounting experience; CPA or actively pursuing preferred though not mandatory.

• Big 4 or public company experience and familiarity with processes and controls is preferred.

• Real ASC 606 and multi-entity consolidation experience - youve closed multi-state or multi-entity books before.

• NetSuite (or similar ERP) and advanced Excel/Sheets fluency.

• AI-forward: process-building utilization of AI for analysis and comfortability creating processes and automation.

Primer is a mission-first company. We believe our mission is the highest-leverage way we can create positive service of that we keep work centered on mission execution and avoid social or political activism at work thats unrelated to the mission. If that energizes you wed love to see you apply.

Required Experience:

Senior IC