Domain Expert - Finance

Overview

An organization is seeking experienced accounting professionals to assist in evaluating, designing, and improving AI systems that support real-world accounting workflows. This is a flexible, contract-based role suitable for accountants, auditors, controllers, tax professionals, finance systems experts, and other specialists with practical hands-on accounting experience.

Projects involve applied accounting tasks across various organizations, industries, and systems, working with real accounting artifacts such as financial statements, trial balances, reconciliations, workpapers, ERP exports, audit schedules, tax filings, close checklists, and management reports.

Responsibilities

• Review accounting work for accuracy, completeness, and sound judgment
• Create or evaluate realistic accounting tasks, scenarios, and workflows
• Identify errors in journal entries, reconciliations, financial statements, schedules, tax analyses, or accounting explanations
• Explain accounting decisions, tradeoffs, assumptions, and risks clearly
• Help define high-quality outputs for accounting-specific AI agents
• Contribute examples of real-world accounting workflows, edge cases, and professional judgment calls
• Collaborate with technical and domain teams to improve AI performance in accounting contexts

Accounting Expertise Areas

Candidates with experience in one or more of the following subdomains are especially encouraged to apply:

• Corporate Accounting / General Ledger Accounting: Month-end/year-end close, journal entries, accruals, balance sheet reconciliations, trial balance review, financial statement preparation, chart of accounts design, audit support
• Controllership / Controller Function: Oversight of monthly close, financial statement review, accounting policies, coordination across AP, AR, payroll, tax, audit, and reporting teams
• Technical Accounting: GAAP/IFRS research, revenue recognition, leases, stock-based compensation, consolidations, accounting memos, disclosure evaluation
• SEC / External Reporting: Preparation/review of 10-Ks, 10-Qs, 8-Ks, earnings materials, XBRL tagging, disclosure controls, audit committee support
• Audit / Assurance: Financial statement audits, risk assessment, testing, internal control testing, audit schedules, substantive testing
• Internal Audit / Controls: SOX controls, operational audits, control design/testing, risk assessment, coordination with finance, IT, legal, compliance
• Tax Accounting: Federal/state/local/international tax accounting, tax provision, deferred taxes, tax planning, sales/payroll tax, tax return preparation
• FP&A / Financial Planning & Analysis: Budgets, forecasts, variance analysis, modeling, board reporting, KPI dashboards, scenario analysis
• CAS / Client Accounting or Advisory Services: Bookkeeping, outsourced accounting, client dashboards, cash flow and profitability analysis, advisory recommendations
• Cost Accounting / Management Accounting: Product costing, inventory valuation, variance analysis, profitability analysis, pricing and margin support
• Fund, Nonprofit, or Government Accounting: Fund accounting, grants, donor reporting, capital calls, NAV calculations, grant compliance
• AP, AR, Payroll, and Transactional Accounting: Vendor bills, invoicing, collections, payroll entries, reconciliations
• Accounting Systems / Finance Operations: ERP implementation/configuration, reconciliation automation, workflow design, process improvement

Tools and Context

Work may involve interaction with or review of AI systems reasoning about tools and artifacts used by modern accounting teams, including:

• ERP and accounting systems: NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Sage Intacct, QuickBooks, Xero
• Close and reconciliation tools: BlackLine, FloQast
• Reporting and filing tools: Workiva, ActiveDisclosure, XBRL tagging platforms
• FP&A and planning tools: Excel, Google Sheets, Power BI, Tableau, Anaplan, Adaptive Planning, Pigment, Planful
• Audit, tax, payroll, AP, AR, and finance operations platforms: CaseWare, CCH, UltraTax, Avalara, Vertex, BILL, Tipalti, Coupa, Ramp, ADP, Gusto, Stripe, Salesforce, Chargebee, Zuora
• Accounting documents: workpapers, reconciliations, trial balances, audit schedules, financial statements, tax filings, board materials, management reports, regulatory filings

A key aspect is helping define what constitutes good accounting judgment in practice, including transaction classification, estimate evaluation, reconciliation review, exception handling, and clear explanation of accounting conclusions.

Requirements

• 3–8+ years of professional experience in one or more accounting subdomains listed above
• Experience working with real accounting systems, workpapers, reconciliations, financial statements, audits, tax filings, or reporting processes
• Ability to reason through complex transactions, estimates, controls, compliance requirements, or reporting decisions
• Capability to explain not only the correct answer but also the rationale behind it
• Understanding of the difference between theoretical accounting rules and practical execution
• Comfortable with flexible, contract-based work
• Motivated by rigor, accuracy, judgment, and building useful AI systems for professional workflows

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional credentials such as CPA, CA, ACCA, CMA, CIA, EA, or equivalent are preferred but not required

Engagement Details

• Fully remote, contract-based work
• Projects vary in scope, duration, complexity, and time commitment
• Engagements may focus on one accounting subdomain or span multiple areas
• Work may include reviewing AI outputs, creating accounting scenarios, evaluating task quality, documenting expert judgment, or advising on workflows
• Compensation may be hourly, project-based, or ongoing retainer depending on engagement
• Expert performance and collaboration quality may be tracked for future project matching
• High-performing experts may receive invitations for additional engagements

Compensation

• Competitive pay aligned with expertise, scope, specialization, and impact
• Typical hourly range: $75–$150 USD
• Exceptional or highly specialized expertise may command higher rates
• Ongoing collaborations may be structured as monthly retainers
• Final compensation depends on subdomain, experience, location, project complexity, and engagement structure

Location

• Fully remote work opportunity