Accounting & Audit Expert

Mercor is hiring experienced Accounting and Audit professionals to support a variety of high-impact projects with leading AI labs and research organizations. Freelancers will leverage their financial expertise to help evaluate, refine, and verify AI outputs in areas such as accounting standards, audit practices, financial reporting, compliance, and risk assessment.

This is a unique opportunity to apply your professional accounting and audit skills toward shaping the next generation of intelligent systems used in finance and compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• Review and refine AI-generated accounting analyses, audit reports, and financial statements

• Validate AI outputs for compliance with GAAP, IFRS, and other relevant standards

• Provide structured feedback on clarity, accuracy, and adherence to accounting principles

• Tag and organize content by accounting topic, industry sector, or complexity level

• Support benchmarking efforts to assess AI model capabilities in financial domains

Ideal Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional accounting experience, ideally at top-tier public accounting firms (e.g., Big Four – Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG), Fortune 500 corporate finance/accounting departments, or in specialized contexts such as government, nonprofit/fund, forensic, or international/cross-border accounting.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related quantitative field. A Master’s degree in Accounting or an MBA with an accounting concentration is a plus.

• Professional certifications such as CPA, CA, CMA, or ACCA are highly valued.

• Strong technical accounting proficiency, including knowledge of GAAP, IFRS, and other relevant reporting/regulatory frameworks across financial, managerial, and cost accounting domains.

• Expertise in core accounting processes, such as financial reporting, budgeting, tax compliance, month-end close, account reconciliations, revenue recognition, lease accounting, consolidations, and internal controls.

• Experience in specialized/applied areas such as forensic accounting (fraud detection, investigations), government accounting (public sector compliance), nonprofit/fund accounting (donor tracking, grant reporting), or cross-border accounting (GAAP vs. IFRS, transfer pricing, foreign exchange).

• Excellent analytical, documentation, and communication skills, with the ability to distill complex accounting concepts into clear, actionable guidance for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Project Timeline

• Start Date: Immediate

• Duration: 1–2 months

• Commitment: Part-time (15–25 hours/week, with flexibility up to 40 hours/week)

Application & Onboarding Process

• Upload your resume

• AI interview: A short, 15-minute conversational session to understand your background, experience, and interest in the role

• Follow-up communication within a few days with next steps and onboarding details

Apply today and leverage your accounting and audit expertise to help build the future of AI-driven financial workflows!

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

Contract and Payment Terms

• You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
• This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
• Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
• Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
• Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
• Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.

About Mercor

Mercor partners with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models using human expertise. You will work on projects that focus on training and enhancing AI systems. You will be paid competitively, collaborate with leading researchers, and help shape the next generation of AI systems in your area of expertise.