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Accounting Expert - Financial Reporting

$85 per hour

Mercor

Job Description

Job Description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Accounting Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $85/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

  • Review AI-agent attempts at realistic accounting tasks and judge whether each conclusion is correct and adequately supported.
  • Confirm work is actually completed and recorded. Ensure entries are booked, findings logged, and deliverables filed.
  • Catch fabricated or overstated work, including invented support and unsupported figures.
  • Judge completeness and ensure the right method is applied to the right problem. Require verify-before-finalize.
  • Write clear, specific agree/disagree rationales on each attempt.

Qualifications

Must-Have

  • 3+ years of professional accounting experience in external audit, controllership/technical accounting, FP&A, or tax.
  • Current or recent hands-on work under US GAAP .
  • Reflexive professional judgment to spot unsupported numbers, misapplied standards, or incomplete deliverables.
  • CPA (or actively pursuing), Big 4/firm/industry experience, or equivalent.
  • Comfort working inside accounting software and reading financial statements and supporting schedules.

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

  • Upload resume
  • AI interview based on your resume
  • Submit form

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Vacancy posted 7 days ago
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