CPA - Accounting Industry Skills Expert - Freelance

About the role

We are looking for a detail-oriented Accounting Skills & Performance Subject Matter Expert to translate high-level public audit and tax accounting strategies into an actionable, measurable learning blueprint.

Responsibilities

• Break down complex audit and tax practice area workflows into granular, practice-based performance objectives (what an entry-level CPA must do) and knowledge objectives (what they must know).
• Define the guardrails, decision points, and realistic professional mistakes that will form the basis of the scenarios and virtual simulations.
• Partner with SweetRush’s Learning Experience Design (LXD) team to ensure the design document serves as a blueprint to accelerate junior CPA performance and fast-track their path to the next level of professional competency and responsibility.
• Serve as the reality check for content depth, ensuring the scope is realistic, accurate, and directly ties back to desired behavioral changes.

Requirements

• A practitioner or technical expert who deeply understands the daily tasks, workflows, and skills in the standard audit practice area.
• A practitioner or technical expert who deeply understands the daily tasks, workflows, and skills in the standard tax practice area.
• Possesses an analytical mind capable of deconstructing their own expertise into clear, step-by-step performance metrics for an early-career learner.
• Analytical, methodical, and energized by turning abstract ideas into structured, execution-ready frameworks.
• Familiarity with instructional frameworks (like mapping learning objectives to simulated environments) is a plus.
• CPA required

Qualifications

Approximate Time Commitment: ~25-35 hours spread across multiple weeks, five (5) SME sessions of ~2 hours each, asynchronous objective mapping work, participation in developing a Proof of Concept.

Skills

• Competency & Workflow Mapping
• Simulation Blueprinting
• Program High-Level Design (HLD) Collaboration
• Content Guardrails

Benefits

Location: Anywhere in the United States - Remote
Contract Type: Freelance - 1099
Project Duration: 11 weeks
Project Capacity: Up to 2-3 hours per week
Dates: ASAP

Pay

Hourly Range: $125/hour

Schedule

Not specified