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Accounting Expert (CL Funnel)

Mercor is collaborating with a leading AI lab to engage experienced accounting professionals across all areas of practice — including audit, tax, financial reporting, bookkeeping, controllership, forensic, and accounting systems.

United States$80 per hour
Hiring companyMercor
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About the role

Contributors help build AI systems that reason about real accounting work by translating everyday accounting workflows, judgments, and decision-making into structured, high-quality training data.

More About the Opportunity

  • Open to all accounting specialties — contribute where your expertise is strongest.
  • Work spans task design, evaluation, and structured feedback on AI accounting outputs.
  • Strong contributors advance into reviewer, lead, and domain-expert roles.

Application Process

  • Submit a resume or a short summary of your accounting experience.
  • Complete a short form on your practice area, specialties, and certifications.
  • Selected applicants may complete a brief sample task.
  • Follow-up typically provided within a few days.

Responsibilities

  • Design realistic accounting scenarios and tasks drawn from your day-to-day work (e.g., financial statement preparation, reconciliations, journal entries, audit procedures, tax filings, month-end close, internal controls).
  • Review and compare AI-generated accounting outputs for accuracy, standards compliance (GAAP/IFRS), and sound professional judgment.
  • Create structured examples that reflect how accountants actually reason through problems.
  • Provide clear written feedback that improves how AI performs accounting tasks.
  • Collaborate asynchronously with the research team.

Required skills

  • CPA, CA, ACCA, CMA, EA, or an equivalent professional credential required.

Preferred skills

  • 3+ years of professional experience in accounting, audit, tax, bookkeeping, or finance operations (public accounting, corporate/in-house, advisory, or a firm).
  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
  • Comfortable with common accounting tools (e.g., QuickBooks, NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, Excel).
  • Strong written communication and attention to detail.

Eligibility

Work arrangement: Fully remote

Eligible countries: United States

Compensation details

$80 per hour.

More about the hiring companyMercor
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