Accounting Expert

Accountabilities:: Design financial and accounting assessments: Develop realistic, challenging tasks based on corporate finance, accounting practices, and business operations to evaluate the capabilities of advanced AI systems. Build and validate financial models: Prepare, review, and validate financial models, operating budgets, forecasts, and cash flow projections to ensure accuracy and practical relevance. Analyze financial statements: Interpret balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements, and supporting financial documentation to assess financial performance and identify potential issues. Perform accounting reconciliations: Create tasks involving account reconciliations, journal entry analysis, variance reporting, and the identification of discrepancies or missing transactions. Develop corporate finance scenarios: Design assessments covering financial planning, investment analysis, business valuation, and performance evaluation. Identify errors and inconsistencies: Examine financial data, calculations, formulas, and supporting documentation to detect inaccuracies, reconciliation issues, and logical inconsistencies. Create reference solutions: Produce reliable model answers with transparent calculations, clearly documented assumptions, and verifiable financial outputs to support consistent evaluation. Evaluate AI-generated financial outputs: Review AI-produced analyses and models for numerical accuracy, completeness, accounting compliance, and logical consistency. Collaborate on evaluation standards: Work with technical contributors to develop reproducible financial tasks, establish objective assessment criteria, and improve the quality of AI training and evaluation data. Requirements: Educational background: A bachelor's degree or higher in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a closely related discipline. Relevant professional experience: Substantial hands-on experience in financial analysis, accounting, auditing, financial planning and analysis (FP&A), or corporate finance. Accounting and financial expertise: Strong knowledge of financial statements, accounting principles, financial reporting, and financial modeling, with the ability to apply this expertise to complex business scenarios. Financial planning and reporting: Practical experience preparing budgets, financial forecasts, account reconciliations, variance analyses, and management reports. Advanced spreadsheet skills: Proficiency in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets, including financial formulas, data analysis, model construction, and validation techniques. Analytical and problem-solving abilities: Exceptional attention to numerical accuracy and the ability to interpret complex financial documentation, identify discrepancies, and investigate inconsistencies. Clear documentation and communication: Ability to explain financial assumptions, calculations, methodologies, and conclusions in a structured, transparent, and verifiable manner. English proficiency: Strong written English skills to document financial tasks, communicate technical findings, and produce clear evaluation materials. Professional certifications: CPA, ACCA, CFA, or another relevant professional certification is a plus. Accounting framework knowledge: Familiarity with IFRS, US GAAP, or other recognized accounting standards is advantageous. Financial systems expertise: Experience with ERP platforms such as SAP, Oracle, or NetSuite is beneficial. Additional technical skills: Familiarity with Python, SQL, Power BI, or financial automation tools is an advantage. AI evaluation experience: Previous experience developing financial assessments, validating complex analytical tasks, or reviewing AI-generated financial outputs is desirable. Benefits: Competitive compensation: Earn between $30 and $60 USD per hour, depending on expertise and experience. Fully remote work: Work remotely from Brazil, with the flexibility to contribute from your preferred working environment. Flexible contract arrangement: Part-time, contract-based engagement with an expected commitment of approximately 20 hours per week. Defined project duration: An initial two-month project, with the possibility of extension depending on project needs and performance. Immediate start: Opportunity to begin contributing as soon as possible. Meaningful technical impact: Apply your accounting and financial expertise to help improve the accuracy, reliability, and performance of advanced AI models. Challenging professional work: Engage with complex financial scenarios that combine real-world accounting practices, analytical reasoning, and emerging AI technologies. Cross-functional collaboration: Work alongside technical contributors to develop high-quality training data and objective evaluation frameworks.