Case study · EdTech
Five-plus years as the embedded finance + operations team..
Lumiere Education
Lumiere runs a mentor and partner network at scale. We have been their standing finance and operations team for over five years — bookkeeping, partner and mentor management, payroll, and reporting — currently at a 600-hour-per-month contracted capacity.
Lumiere Education is the longest-running engagement on MR-Accountants' book. They run a network of mentors and partners helping students apply to top universities. The operational complexity scales with every cohort — partner onboarding, mentor payments, student refunds, regulatory checks, monthly reporting — and a small in-house team can't keep pace alone.
We came in at the operational layer more than five years ago and stayed. Today the engagement is structured as a 600-hour-per-month standing capacity, with the team split across three core functions: bookkeeping (regular close, reconciliation), operations (partner management, mentor management, payroll, student payment and refund management), and reporting (monthly management accounts plus ad-hoc data).
Most months we run at or above contracted capacity. The standing team has years of institutional memory to absorb new workflows quickly, and the engagement model gives Lumiere predictable cost on the operations side while their internal team focuses on growth and curriculum.
What started as bookkeeping support has become an embedded back-office: same team, same standards, scaled to whatever the calendar throws at them.
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