Accounting AI Training Subject Matter Expert

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About AI Training Work

AI training is the human side of building artificial intelligence. Contributors write examples, review model responses, rank alternative answers, and provide detailed feedback so AI systems become more accurate, reliable, and useful.

This role applies professional accounting judgment to model evaluation and content creation. Your work will help AI handle financial scenarios with stronger reasoning, clearer explanations, and more appropriate accounting treatment.

• Remote work using a computer and internet connection.
• Flexible contractor work that can fit around other professional commitments.
• Direct involvement in evaluating and improving cutting-edge AI systems.

The Accounting AI Training SME Role

OpenTrain is hiring an Accounting AI Training Subject Matter Expert to review AI-generated accounting and finance responses, create expert accounting content, and assess the quality of model reasoning. The role focuses on journal entries, reconciliations, accruals, financial statement presentation, internal controls, and related business scenarios.

You will write precise prompts and gold-standard accounting outputs, check technical claims for accuracy, and rank model responses for correctness, clarity, completeness, and adherence to GAAP or IFRS.

• Role type: Part-time contractor
• Time requirement: 20+ hours per week
• Work arrangement: Remote
• Language: English at a minimum C1 level
• Data type: Text
• Primary work types: Response evaluation, rating, and text generation

What You'll Do

• Review AI-generated accounting answers and provide precise written feedback on errors, assumptions, and reasoning quality.
• Create journal entries, explanations, close checklists, reconciliation logic, and scenario analyses as expert accounting content.
• Evaluate bookkeeping logic, accruals, reconciliations, financial statement presentation, and control weaknesses in model outputs.
• Compare multiple responses and rate them for correctness, clarity, completeness, and best-practice accounting treatment.
• Identify misleading guidance, unsafe assumptions, and weak explanations across business scenarios.
• Produce high-quality reference answers that reflect real-world accounting practice and can be reviewed for auditability.

Requirements and Preferred Background

This opportunity requires substantial accounting knowledge and the ability to explain technical corrections clearly. The structured experience level is listed as entry level, but the role description requires at least five years of professional accounting experience.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional accounting experience in public accounting, industry, shared services, or advisory.
• Strong command of revenue and expense recognition, accruals, prepaids, fixed assets, inventory basics, payroll basics, and tax awareness.
• Ability to prepare and review journal entries, reconciliations, and month-end close deliverables with auditability in mind.
• Solid understanding of financial statements and common classification or presentation issues.
• Familiarity with internal controls, documentation standards, and audit readiness.
• Strong accounting judgment across journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, and month-end close.
• Professional English writing ability at a C1 level or higher.
• Prior experience with AI data training, accounting QA, audit review, or technical accounting writing is strongly preferred.
• CPA, ACCA, CMA, or a local equivalent is helpful.
• Experience evaluating AI-generated content or technical accounting explanations is helpful.
• Comfort working independently in an hourly remote contractor workflow across time zones.

Compensation and Location

This role is paid hourly. Country-based compensation variants are advertised from $35 to $65 per hour, depending on location.

Hiring is available across multiple countries in Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States, including Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bhutan, Brazil, Cambodia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Monaco, Nepal, Norway, Pakistan, Portugal, San Marino, Singapore, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, the United States, Timor-Leste, Vietnam, and the Netherlands.

• Hourly pay range: $35-$65 USD
• Contractor and part-time engagement
• 20+ hours per week
• Remote work across eligible countries

How to Apply Through OpenTrain

If you can evaluate accounting accuracy carefully, explain corrections clearly, and create reliable reference answers, this is an opportunity to apply your professional expertise to AI training. Create a free OpenTrain account and apply in minutes.

• Review the role requirements and confirm your accounting background.
• Create or update your OpenTrain profile.
• Submit your application for consideration.
• Use the opportunity to build experience in AI training and model evaluation.