Accounting Expert

<h3>Accountabilities:</h3><li>
<strong>Design financial and accounting assessments:</strong>Develop realistic, challenging tasks based on corporate finance, accounting practices, and business operations to evaluate the capabilities of advanced AI systems.</li><li>
<strong>Build and validate financial models:</strong>Prepare, review, and validate financial models, operating budgets, forecasts, and cash flow projections to ensure accuracy and practical relevance.</li><li>
<strong>Analyze financial statements:</strong>Interpret balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements, and supporting financial documentation to assess financial performance and identify potential issues.</li><li>
<strong>Perform accounting reconciliations:</strong>Create tasks involving account reconciliations, journal entry analysis, variance reporting, and the identification of discrepancies or missing transactions.</li><li>
<strong>Develop corporate finance scenarios:</strong>Design assessments covering financial planning, investment analysis, business valuation, and performance evaluation.</li><li>
<strong>Identify errors and inconsistencies:</strong>Examine financial data, calculations, formulas, and supporting documentation to detect inaccuracies, reconciliation issues, and logical inconsistencies.</li><li>
<strong>Create reference solutions:</strong>Produce reliable model answers with transparent calculations, clearly documented assumptions, and verifiable financial outputs to support consistent evaluation.</li><li>
<strong>Evaluate AI-generated financial outputs:</strong>Review AI-produced analyses and models for numerical accuracy, completeness, accounting compliance, and logical consistency.</li><li>
<strong>Collaborate on evaluation standards:</strong>Work with technical contributors to develop reproducible financial tasks, establish objective assessment criteria, and improve the quality of AI training and evaluation data.</li><h2>Requirements:</h2><li>
<strong>Educational background:</strong>A bachelor's degree or higher in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a closely related discipline.</li><li>
<strong>Relevant professional experience:</strong>Substantial hands-on experience in financial analysis, accounting, auditing, financial planning and analysis (FP&amp;A), or corporate finance.</li><li>
<strong>Accounting and financial expertise:</strong>Strong knowledge of financial statements, accounting principles, financial reporting, and financial modeling, with the ability to apply this expertise to complex business scenarios.</li><li>
<strong>Financial planning and reporting:</strong>Practical experience preparing budgets, financial forecasts, account reconciliations, variance analyses, and management reports.</li><li>
<strong>Advanced spreadsheet skills:</strong>Proficiency in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets, including financial formulas, data analysis, model construction, and validation techniques.</li><li>
<strong>Analytical and problem-solving abilities:</strong>Exceptional attention to numerical accuracy and the ability to interpret complex financial documentation, identify discrepancies, and investigate inconsistencies.</li><li>
<strong>Clear documentation and communication:</strong>Ability to explain financial assumptions, calculations, methodologies, and conclusions in a structured, transparent, and verifiable manner.</li><li>
<strong>English proficiency:</strong>Strong written English skills to document financial tasks, communicate technical findings, and produce clear evaluation materials.</li><li>
<strong>Professional certifications:</strong>CPA, ACCA, CFA, or another relevant professional certification is a plus.</li><li>
<strong>Accounting framework knowledge:</strong>Familiarity with IFRS, US GAAP, or other recognized accounting standards is advantageous.</li><li>
<strong>Financial systems expertise:</strong>Experience with ERP platforms such as SAP, Oracle, or NetSuite is beneficial.</li><li>
<strong>Additional technical skills:</strong>Familiarity with Python, SQL, Power BI, or financial automation tools is an advantage.</li><li>
<strong>AI evaluation experience:</strong>Previous experience developing financial assessments, validating complex analytical tasks, or reviewing AI-generated financial outputs is desirable.</li><h2>Benefits:</h2><li>
<strong>Competitive compensation:</strong>Earn between $30 and $60 USD per hour, depending on expertise and experience.</li><li>
<strong>Fully remote work:</strong>Work remotely from Brazil, with the flexibility to contribute from your preferred working environment.</li><li>
<strong>Flexible contract arrangement:</strong>Part-time, contract-based engagement with an expected commitment of approximately 20 hours per week.</li><li>
<strong>Defined project duration:</strong>An initial two-month project, with the possibility of extension depending on project needs and performance.</li><li>
<strong>Immediate start:</strong>Opportunity to begin contributing as soon as possible.</li><li>
<strong>Meaningful technical impact:</strong>Apply your accounting and financial expertise to help improve the accuracy, reliability, and performance of advanced AI models.</li><li>
<strong>Challenging professional work:</strong>Engage with complex financial scenarios that combine real-world accounting practices, analytical reasoning, and emerging AI technologies.</li><li>
<strong>Cross-functional collaboration:</strong>Work alongside technical contributors to develop high-quality training data and objective evaluation frameworks.</li>