Generalist Accounting Expert

Create and review accounting materials that help AI systems reason about financial reporting. You will use Excel and PowerPoint to model accounting activity, explain its financial statement effects, and check that the work is accurate and consistent.

• Build GAAP-accurate Excel schedules for ASC 606 revenue recognition, ASC 842 leases, ASC 718 stock compensation, deferred tax rollforwards, and consolidation eliminations.
• Prepare PowerPoint summaries of financial statement impacts, technical accounting memos, control observations, and policy implications.
• Create sample monthly and quarterly close packets, audit workpapers, tie-outs, flux analyses, and draft disclosures.
• Reconcile accounting flows, validate logic, find errors, explain reporting consequences, and maintain audit-defensible detail.

What it pays and takes

• Pay: $115 per hour.
• Hours: Less than 20 hours per week; part-time, asynchronous, and project-based.
• Location: Remote; open only in the countries listed for this role.
• Language: Fluent English.
• Required: An active U.S. CPA license and strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and standard close, audit, and reporting workflows.
• Required: Experience preparing or reviewing financial statements, footnotes, and supporting workpapers; advanced Excel skills for tracing activity from subledgers through journals, trial balances, and financial statements.
• Required: QuickBooks experience and the ability to explain accounting conclusions clearly in PowerPoint and written memos.
• Helpful: Background in public accounting, corporate reporting, technical accounting, complex transactions, or SOX. Experience with revenue recognition, leases, stock compensation, deferred taxes, consolidation, and audit documentation is relevant.
• You should be interested in improving AI reasoning about accounting and financial reporting.

How it works

Apply on OpenTrain with your resume, then complete the application on the hiring site.

About AI training work

AI training work uses examples prepared and reviewed by people to help AI systems learn. In this role, accounting schedules and reporting materials provide examples of how financial reporting works.