Accounting Expert

Rate: $85/hour

About the Role

Accounting Expert role focused on reviewing and validating AI-generated accounting tasks, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and adherence to US GAAP standards.

Responsibilities

• Review AI-agent attempts at realistic accounting tasks and judge whether each conclusion is correct and adequately supported.
• Confirm work is actually completed, recorded entries are booked, findings are logged, and deliverables are filed—not just described.
• Identify fabricated or overstated work, including invented support, procedures claimed but not performed, and unsupported figures.
• Assess completeness and whether the right method was applied to the right problem; enforce a "verify-before-finalize" approach.
• Write clear, specific agree/disagree rationales for each attempt.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional accounting experience in one or more of: external audit, controllership/technical accounting, FP&A, or tax.
• Current or recent hands-on work under US GAAP.
• Reflexive professional judgment; ability to spot unsupported numbers, misapplied standards, or incomplete deliverables.
• CPA (or actively pursuing), Big 4/firm/industry experience, or equivalent.
• Comfort working inside accounting software and reading financial statements and supporting schedules.

Skills & Knowledge

• Financial Reporting & the Close: US GAAP financial statements and the period-end close and reporting cycle.
• Reconciliations & Analytics: Substantive analytics, tie-outs to source documents, and subledger-to-general-ledger tie-outs. Understanding of open, locked, or reopened periods.
• Judgment & Evaluation:
  • Materiality and evaluation of errors/misstatements; determining when an item is or isn’t material.
  • Adjusting journal entries and their coupled effects (e.g., deferred tax).
  • Distinguishing posted ledger entries from drafts, unposted batches, or working-paper adjustments.
• Technical Standards & Estimates:
  • Revenue (ASC 606), leases (842), impairment (350/360), income taxes, credit losses (326), business combinations (805).
  • Reserves, allowances, and other significant accounting estimates.
• Documentation & Evidence:
  • Workpaper vs. memo standards, cross-referencing, sign-off, and review-ready completeness.
  • Evidence provenance: validity of figures, citations, or procedures only if properly supported.
• Tools: Comfort in professional accounting software (e.g., CaseWare), GL/ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite), and BI/reporting tools (e.g., Power BI).