Accounting Industry Strategy Expert - Freelance

About the role

We are looking for a forward-thinking Accounting Industry Strategy expert to help shape an innovative, commercial B2B learning solution designed for the accounting profession. This solution empowers early-career CPAs (typically new hires who are onboarding within a firm and before their first “busy season”) through immersive, tech-enabled training.

Responsibilities

• Commercial & Strategic Guidance: Ensure the learning journey directly addresses the real-world pain points of accounting firms (e.g., modern workload pressures, early-career engagement, effective professional success behaviors, and the CPA talent shortage).
• Active CoDesign Participation: Collaborate in virtual live workshops to brainstorm immersive simulation scenarios that mimic the actual modern accounting environment and will resonate with the target audience.
• Value Proposition Alignment: Help ensure the solution effectively delivers on its market promise: shortening time to productivity and accelerating competency attainment in public accounting.

Requirements

• A seasoned industry veteran within public accounting who understands the operational and talent challenges of managing junior staff.
• Ability to represent both tax and audit at the entry- to senior-staff level
• Passionate about the evolution of the profession and enthusiastic about cutting-edge learning tech (AI, simulations).
• Comfortable brainstorming in a high-energy, ambiguous, and collaborative environment.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and align with executive-level stakeholders.
• CPA preferred but not required

Qualifications

Approximate Time Commitment: ~25-30 hours spread across multiple weeks. Up to seven (7) virtual CoDesign sessions ranging from 2-3 hours. 30-minute debrief sessions with SweetRush after each CoDesign session. Participation in developing a Proof of Concept.

Skills

Seasoned industry veteran within public accounting, ability to represent both tax and audit at the entry-to-senior-staff level, passionate about the evolution of the profession, comfortable brainstorming in a high-energy, ambiguous, and collaborative environment, excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and align with executive-level stakeholders.

Benefits

Remote work, flexible schedule, remote-first, tight-knit community, and a focus on radical empathy and creative excellence.

Pay

$125/hour

Schedule

Up to three (3) hours per week