Accounting Expert

Employer description and requirements

Role Overview

• Mercor is hiring experienced accountants and auditors to build and review evaluation tasks for AI agents.
• Each task is set in a realistic simulated company, with the ledgers, workpapers, policies, emails and business apps an accounting team really uses.
• You make sure each task reads like a real request, the reference answer holds up against the source records, and the grading rubric checks what a senior accountant would check.

Key Responsibilities

• Refine AI-drafted task prompts so they read like a real request from a controller, CFO or audit lead, without giving the answer away.
• Check the reference answer against the world's files and app records, and correct what is wrong.
• Write and tighten grading rubrics: pass/fail criteria with exact values, plus the judgment calls a generalist would miss.
• Read how leading AI models attempt each task and confirm they fail for fair, defensible reasons.
• Work across financial reporting and technical accounting (revenue recognition, leases, consolidation, business combinations, SEC reporting), month-end and year-end close, internal controls and SOX, tax provisions, audit fieldwork, and industry areas such as fund, nonprofit, construction and SaaS accounting.

Ideal Qualifications

• 3+ years as an accountant, controller or audit partner. Big Four or major-corporation experience preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or a related field.
• Active CPA license, or an equivalent such as CPA Canada, CPA Australia, CA, ACCA or ICAEW.
• Hands-on ownership of financial reporting, audit engagements or technical accounting, with working knowledge of US GAAP / IFRS, SEC filings and PCAOB / ISA standards.
• Prior experience on a Mercor RL project is a plus.

Details

• Pay: $95/hour.
• You start with a short onboarding session and a paid skills assessment. Once you pass, you can claim your first task right away.
• Strong performers can move into reviewer and world lead roles.