Financial Close & General Ledge - AI Research

Overview

This role involves applying extensive operational accounting expertise to help develop AI models that emulate the financial close process. The position focuses on designing and evaluating realistic close tasks such as reconciliations, accruals, and intercompany eliminations, ensuring AI-generated outputs meet professional standards.

Responsibilities

• Design realistic financial close and general ledger tasks including reconciliations, accruals, and intercompany eliminations.
• Develop evaluation rubrics that define correctness beyond balanced trial balances, incorporating judgment on accruals, cut-offs, and adjustments.
• Review AI-generated journal entries, reconciliations, and variance analyses for accuracy and completeness, identifying errors typically caught by experienced reviewers.
• Create reference close packages and worked solutions to serve as benchmarks for model testing.
• Make the reasoning behind each close decision explicit to enable AI models to learn the rationale, not just the output.

Requirements

• 5 to 8+ years of operational accounting experience as a Controller, Assistant Controller, or close/general ledger lead.
• Proven experience running a financial close end-to-end and ability to quickly identify soft reconciliations.
• Hands-on experience with ERP systems such as NetSuite, SAP, or QuickBooks.
• CPA, ACA/ACCA, or equivalent certification preferred but not required.
• Strong ability to explain the judgment behind accounting entries, not just the mechanics.

Engagement Details

• Fully remote, part-time, and flexible work arrangements.
• Work is scoped by project and can range from short-term engagements to ongoing collaborations.
• Engagements are structured as contracts or monthly retainers.

Compensation

• Hourly rates range from $80 to $200, depending on expertise, scope, and impact.
• Exceptional or highly specialized expertise may command higher rates.
• Ongoing engagements are typically compensated via monthly retainers rather than hourly billing.

Location

Remote work; no specific geographic restrictions mentioned.