In this remote, flexible contract role, you will request and review evidence, reconcile populations, test controls, document exceptions, and write findings memos with record-level support. You will also review audit tasks for accuracy, evidence sufficiency, expected answers, and grading criteria, including telling a confirmed control failure apart from missing evidence. The work runs 20 to 40 hours per week as an independent contractor. No prior AI experience is needed.

Why apply

• Competitive Compensation: $80 per hour as an independent contractor.
• Flexible Engagement: fully remote, 20 to 40 hours a week on your own schedule, and it can sit alongside a full-time role.
• Innovative Impact: work with a YC-backed startup and put real audit judgment into how AI models are trained and evaluated.

• Independently complete realistic audit testing assignments end to end: request evidence, reconcile populations, test controls, and document exceptions.
• Build testing workbooks in Excel and write findings memos with record-level citations.
• Distinguish confirmed control failures from missing or insufficient evidence, and explain each conclusion.
• Review audit tasks for accuracy, evidence sufficiency, expected answers, and grading criteria.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on internal audit or SOX controls testing that you executed yourself (in-house internal audit, SOX, or internal IT audit).
• Direct testing experience in at least one of: vendor management and payment approvals, payroll and compensation changes, or user access and termination controls.
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, or a related field.

Preferred qualifications

• CIA, CPA, or CISA certification.
• Coverage of more than one area: vendor and payments, payroll, and user access controls.
• SOX 404 / ICFR testing at a public company or bank, or in a risk advisory or SOX consulting practice where you did the testing yourself.

Work arrangement: Fully remote

$80/hr.