Accounting/Accountant – AI Trainer - Remote

Overview

This contractor role offers an opportunity for a senior accountant to contribute to the development of AI systems focused on accounting concepts, financial reporting standards, and real-world business scenarios. The position involves evaluating and improving AI-generated accounting content to ensure accuracy and professional rigor.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate AI-generated accounting explanations, journal entries, financial analyses, and scenario-based responses for accuracy and completeness.
• Challenge advanced language models with realistic accounting prompts related to financial reporting, audit procedures, reconciliations, internal controls, and policy interpretation.
• Review and refine AI-generated prompts and responses to ensure sound accounting logic and clear communication.
• Provide structured feedback on model errors, reasoning gaps, unsupported assumptions, and misinterpretations of accounting rules or business context.
• Help shape AI communication standards to ensure clear and accurate explanations of accounting concepts for professional and business audiences.
• Support benchmarking by designing, reviewing, and validating accounting tasks that assess model performance at various complexity levels.
• Identify edge cases where AI may produce technically plausible but incorrect accounting conclusions.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of professional accounting experience with significant hands-on work in financial reporting, month-end close, reconciliations, audit support, or accounting operations.
• Deep knowledge of core accounting principles including GAAP, accrual accounting, journal entries, financial statement preparation, and account analysis.
• Strong understanding of internal controls, audit documentation, variance analysis, revenue recognition, expense classification, and accounting policy application.
• Proven ability to interpret financial data, identify discrepancies, and clearly explain accounting judgments to business stakeholders.
• Experience reviewing complex accounting work for accuracy, consistency, and compliance with professional standards.
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a closely related field required.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA, CMA, master’s degree, or equivalent advanced accounting credential strongly preferred.
• Previous experience with AI data training, annotation, or evaluating AI-generated technical content is a strong plus.

Compensation & Benefits

• This is a contractor position.
• Work is performed remotely.

Location

• Remote