Accounting Reconciliation AI Task Author

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About AI Training Work

AI training is the human side of building artificial intelligence. Specialists prepare examples, write scenarios, and evaluate model outputs so that advanced systems can reason more accurately and reliably. In this role, your accounting expertise will help shape how AI agents handle complex financial analysis.

• Apply accounting expertise to cutting-edge AI development
• Create and evaluate realistic financial tasks
• Help define what accurate, well-reasoned AI performance looks like

The Role

OpenTrain is seeking an Accounting Reconciliation AI Task Author to create expert-level financial scenarios used to train and evaluate advanced AI agents. You will translate enterprise accounting concepts into numerically rigorous, objectively scorable tasks involving reconciliation, revenue recognition, payment matching, and margin analysis.

This is a remote, flexible contract opportunity for finance professionals located in South Africa. The expected commitment is 20 or more hours per week, with compensation of $60-$120 per hour.

• Employment type: Contractor and part-time
• Location: South Africa
• Language: English
• Workload: 20+ hours per week
• Pay: $60-$120 per hour

What You’ll Do

You will design realistic accounting tasks that require careful analysis, multi-step calculations, and clearly verifiable conclusions. Each task must be challenging enough to test an AI agent while remaining objectively gradable.

• Author prompts for matching payments to invoices.
• Create reconciliation tasks comparing billing with recognized revenue.
• Develop scenarios involving margin-report analysis.
• Write scoring rubrics defining exact numerical outcomes and required reasoning steps.
• Prepare financial data, documents, and system states that reflect realistic accounting situations.
• Solve each task yourself to validate calculations, reconciled balances, and rubric accuracy.
• Adjust data complexity, source-document ambiguity, and reasoning requirements to calibrate difficulty.
• Review and correct AI-drafted prompts or rubrics when provided.

Required Qualifications

You should have hands-on experience as an accountant, finance analyst, or closely related finance professional. Strong numerical reasoning and the ability to work through multi-step reconciliation problems are essential.

You must be comfortable defining correctness criteria that can be checked reliably, including exact figures, account balances, and explanations of variances.

• Hands-on accounting or finance analyst experience involving multi-step reconciliation work
• Knowledge of revenue recognition principles, matching rules, and standard accounting workflows
• Strong numerical reasoning and careful attention to calculation accuracy
• Ability to define exact, verifiable outcomes and variance explanations
• Comfort working with financial documents, spreadsheets, and accounting-system outputs
• Willingness to test and refine tasks until they are appropriately difficult and reliably gradable

Helpful Background

The following experience is useful but not required: work in mining, manufacturing, or enterprise B2B finance; familiarity with ERP or accounting platforms; and professional experience in audit, financial controls, revenue assurance, or IFRS.

• Experience with SAP, Sage, Pastel, NetSuite, or another ERP or accounting platform
• CA(SA), CIMA, ACCA, or an equivalent qualification
• Background in audit, financial controls, revenue assurance, or IFRS
• Experience in mining, manufacturing, or enterprise B2B finance

Why Work With OpenTrain

AI training is a fast-growing way to work in technology without leaving your professional field behind. By contributing specialized finance knowledge, you can help shape how state-of-the-art AI systems understand accounting problems and explain their conclusions.

OpenTrain helps contributors build a credible record of AI training experience alongside their existing expertise. Creating an account is free, and the work can fit around other professional or personal commitments.

• Remote work with flexible hours
• A chance to apply finance expertise to advanced AI systems
• A growing portfolio of specialized AI training experience
• Free OpenTrain account creation

How to Get Started

Create your free OpenTrain account, build a profile highlighting your accounting and reconciliation experience, and apply for this contract opportunity. Be prepared to demonstrate your ability to reason through complex financial scenarios and establish precise, objective evaluation criteria.

• Create a free OpenTrain profile
• Highlight relevant accounting, finance, reconciliation, and ERP experience
• Apply in minutes
• Contribute remotely for 20+ hours per week