Financial Accountant - Fully Remote | Upto $85/hr

About the role

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

This is a contract, remote position with compensation at $85/hour.

Responsibilities

• Review AI-agent attempts at realistic accounting tasks and judge whether each conclusion is correct and adequately supported.
• Confirm work is actually completed and recorded. Ensure entries are booked, findings logged, and deliverables filed.
• Catch fabricated or overstated work, including invented support and unsupported figures.
• Judge completeness and ensure the right method is applied to the right problem. Require verify-before-finalize.
• Write clear, specific agree/disagree rationales on each attempt.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional accounting experience in external audit, controllership/technical accounting, FP&A, or tax.
• Current or recent hands-on work under US GAAP.
• Reflexive professional judgment 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.