We are sharing a specialised full-time opportunity for senior accounting and audit professionals with substantial experience across financial reporting, assurance, technical accounting, internal controls, tax, forensic accounting, or related disciplines.

This role supports advanced research focused on improving how AI systems reason through real-world accounting and audit work. Selected professionals will review complex accounting tasks and outputs, develop authoritative reference solutions and instructions, and translate professional accounting judgement into rigorous standards for high-quality financial analysis and reporting.

Key Responsibilities

Accounting & Audit Quality Review

• Evaluate accounting and audit tasks for technical accuracy, completeness, and professional realism
• Review outputs for misapplied standards, unsupported accounting treatments, weak reasoning, and missing considerations
• Identify conclusions that appear plausible but would not withstand professional review
• Assess whether calculations, treatments, and conclusions are appropriately supported
• Apply senior-level judgement across complex accounting scenarios

Financial Reporting & Technical Accounting

• Develop and review tasks involving financial reporting under US GAAP or IFRS
• Evaluate accounting treatments, disclosures, estimates, and reporting decisions
• Assess complex issues involving revenue recognition and other technical accounting areas
• Identify inconsistencies between underlying facts and proposed accounting conclusions
• Produce reference solutions reflecting professional financial-reporting standards

External Audit & Assurance

• Develop realistic audit and assurance scenarios
• Evaluate audit procedures, evidence, documentation, and conclusions
• Assess whether sufficient support exists for findings and reporting decisions
• Identify incomplete procedures, unsupported assertions, or weaknesses in audit reasoning
• Apply practical experience from engagement planning through final review

Internal Audit, SOX & Controls

• Create and review scenarios involving internal audit and control environments
• Evaluate control design, operating effectiveness, and remediation approaches
• Develop tasks involving SOX compliance, risk assessment, and testing
• Assess whether identified control deficiencies are appropriately analysed and documented
• Apply professional judgement to governance, compliance, and internal-control matters

Tax, Forensics & Specialised Accounting

• Contribute domain expertise in areas such as tax, forensic accounting, fraud examination, or revenue recognition
• Develop realistic scenarios reflecting specialised professional workflows
• Evaluate evidence, calculations, assumptions, and conclusions
• Identify unsupported or incomplete analyses
• Create reference outputs representing strong professional judgement

Instruction & Reference Solution Development

• Write detailed task instructions reflecting authentic accounting and audit workflows
• Produce high-quality reference solutions to complex professional problems
• Define what constitutes a technically sound, complete, and review-ready response
• Translate tacit accounting judgement into explicit evaluation criteria
• Develop new tasks based on realistic professional decision-making

Quality Standards & Calibration

• Collaborate with research teams and specialists from adjacent domains
• Help maintain consistent evaluation standards across accounting-related work
• Identify recurring weaknesses and failure patterns in model outputs
• Refine evaluation criteria based on performance and review findings
• Contribute domain expertise to new accounting and audit research workflows

Ideal Profile

• 4+ years of substantive accounting or audit experience within a public accounting firm, corporate controllership or finance function, internal audit department, regulator, or comparable organisation
• Active professional credential such as CPA, CA, CIA, CFE, CMA, or equivalent
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a closely related field
• Demonstrated specialisation in at least one area such as:
  • External audit and assurance
  • Technical accounting and financial reporting
  • US GAAP or IFRS
  • Internal audit and SOX controls
  • Tax
  • Forensic accounting and fraud examination
  • Revenue recognition
• Clear progression into senior responsibility, such as Audit Manager, Senior Manager, Accounting Manager, Controller, Director of Accounting, Partner, or comparable level
• Demonstrated ownership of audit engagements, reporting cycles, control programmes, or significant accounting functions
• Practical experience using large language models in professional workflows
• Strong judgement when distinguishing well-supported analysis from superficially plausible conclusions
• Excellent written communication and ability to provide precise, structured feedback
• Bookkeeping-only backgrounds are outside the scope of this role

Engagement Details

• Full-time role
• Hybrid — Bay Area, California
• Expected commitment of 40 hours per week
• Initial engagement of approximately 6 months
• Compensation: $50–$90/hour
• Candidates must live in the Bay Area and be available to work on-site with the assigned team multiple days per week when required
• Candidates not currently based in the Bay Area must be willing to relocate there at their own expense before the engagement begins
• Relocation assistance is not provided
• Client-issued accounts and equipment may be provided for work within designated systems and workflows
• Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded based on organisational needs and performance

About the Platform

This opportunity is available through 24-MAG LLC. We connect experienced professionals with remote consulting opportunities across technical, evaluation, and project-based workstreams.

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