MercorFinanceReviewed
Accounting Expert
Mercor is engaging accounting experts to evaluate and compare AI-generated responses to challenging accounting and financial-reporting prompts. Applicant pay shown: $85 / hour.
- Platform
- Mercor
- Fit category
- Finance
- Remote/location
- Fully remote; independent contractor; own schedule; H-1B and STEM OPT support unavailable
- Pay
- Firm hourly pay: $85 / hour
- Eligibility
- Remote, work authorization mentioned
- Difficulty
- Selective
- Last reviewed
- Jul 15, 2026
Current application
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What this role involves
Mercor is engaging accounting experts to evaluate and compare AI-generated responses to challenging accounting and financial-reporting prompts. Contributors review model reasoning and provided input files, select the stronger response, explain correctness and standards compliance, provide written feedback, and participate in onboarding and specialty calibration.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of professional experience in accounting, audit, or tax across public accounting, corporate finance, or advisory
- A CPA or equivalent credential and/or a degree in accounting, finance, or a related field
- Fluency in GAAP and/or IFRS and financial-statement analysis
- Excellent written communication and high attention to detail
- Ability to compare model outputs and explain correctness, standards compliance, and reasoning quality
- Availability for onboarding and specialty calibration sessions
Best for
- Accountants, auditors, and tax professionals with at least 2 years of experience
- CPAs and finance or accounting graduates fluent in GAAP or IFRS
- Reviewers who can compare model reasoning and write precise standards-based feedback
Skip this if...
- You have less than 2 years of professional accounting, audit, or tax experience
- You are not fluent in GAAP and/or IFRS and financial-statement analysis
- You cannot commit roughly 10–20 hours per week
- You require H-1B or STEM OPT support
- You need guaranteed acceptance, work, hours, or project duration
Application tips
- Prepare concise, non-confidential examples of accounting, audit, tax, standards, or financial-statement-analysis experience.
- The visible role states a flexible 10–20 hour weekly workload and rolling review with an immediate start.
- Do not share confidential employer, client, audit, tax, or financial information.
- Verify the current Mercor page before applying because rolling availability, pay, workload, and project duration can change.