Accounting Expert

Role Overview

Mercor is collaborating with a leading AI lab to engage experienced accounting professionals across all areas of practice — including audit, tax, financial reporting, bookkeeping, controllership, forensic, and accounting systems. Contributors help build AI systems that reason about real accounting work by translating everyday accounting workflows, judgments, and decision-making into structured, high-quality training data.

Key Responsibilities

• Design realistic accounting scenarios and tasks drawn from your day-to-day work (e.g., financial statement preparation, reconciliations, journal entries, audit procedures, tax filings, month-end close, internal controls)

• Review and compare AI-generated accounting outputs for accuracy, standards compliance (GAAP/IFRS), and sound professional judgment

• Create structured examples that reflect how accountants actually reason through problems

• Provide clear written feedback that improves how AI performs accounting tasks

• Collaborate asynchronously with the research team

Ideal Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional experience in accounting, audit, tax, bookkeeping, or finance operations (public accounting, corporate/in-house, advisory, or a firm)

• CPA, CA, ACCA, CMA, EA, or an equivalent professional credential required

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field

• Comfortable with common accounting tools (e.g., QuickBooks, NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, Excel)

• Strong written communication and attention to detail

More About the Opportunity

• Open to all accounting specialties — contribute where your expertise is strongest

• Work spans task design, evaluation, and structured feedback on AI accounting outputs

• Strong contributors advance into reviewer, lead, and domain-expert roles

Application Process

• Submit a resume or a short summary of your accounting experience

• Complete a short form on your practice area, specialties, and certifications

• Selected applicants may complete a brief sample task

• Follow-up typically provided within a few days

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.