This role is for one of our clients
Compensation: $80-$120 per hour
We are preparing a series of accounting-focused engagements with leading AI research organizations over the coming weeks and months. These opportunities may span audit reasoning, financial reporting, tax, GAAP/IFRS analysis, and related accounting workstreams.
Before finalizing each engagement, we want to ensure that the work reflects how accounting professionals actually operate in practice — including real workflows, tools, decision points, responsibilities, and areas of specialization.
This is a short, written intake designed to capture the practical realities of the accounting profession directly from experienced practitioners.
Requirements
What You'll Do
Complete an approximately 30-minute written intake covering your professional accounting experience.
You will be asked to:
- Describe your day-to-day accounting workflows and responsibilities.
- Explain how your time is typically divided across different activities.
- Identify the workflows and processes that are most central to your role.
- Describe how experienced accountants distinguish different specialties and areas of practice.
- Share the practical distinctions professionals use within accounting that may not appear in traditional textbooks or public resources.
- Highlight the less visible aspects of accounting work that outsiders or project designers may overlook.
- Provide specific examples of tools, processes, judgment calls, and decision points that are important in your area of expertise.
There are no right or wrong answers. The goal is to capture authentic professional experience, so detail, specificity, and practical insight are more valuable than polished responses.
Ideal Respondents
We are particularly interested in practicing or recently practicing accounting professionals with experience in areas such as:
- Public Accounting
- Corporate Accounting & Finance
- Audit & Assurance
- Tax
- Advisory
- Financial Reporting
- Technical Accounting
Preferred Qualifications
- CPA or equivalent professional accounting credential preferred.
- Deep practical experience in a specialized accounting domain is also highly valued, even without a professional certification.
- Willingness to provide detailed, specific responses about the mechanics and realities of your work.
- Strong understanding of accounting workflows, professional standards, tools, and decision-making processes.
Why Participate?
Your insights will directly help shape the scope and structure of upcoming accounting engagements.
Thoughtful responses may help:
- Inform the design of future accounting research and AI-evaluation projects.
- Ensure upcoming opportunities reflect authentic accounting workflows.
- Identify specialized accounting areas for future engagements.
- Improve matching and routing for opportunities aligned with your professional expertise.
- Increase your eligibility for relevant accounting engagements as new projects become available.
Typical compensation for accounting-focused engagements may vary based on experience, specialization, seniority, and project requirements.
Engagement Details
- Role: Accounting Domain Intake — Shape Upcoming Accounting Engagements
- Format: Written intake
- Estimated Time: Approximately 30 minutes
- Work Arrangement: Fully Remote
- Engagement Type: Independent Contractor
Contract and Payment Terms
- This opportunity is fully remote and can be completed on your own schedule.
- Future projects may vary in duration, scope, and commitment depending on research requirements.
- Individual engagements may be extended, shortened, or concluded early based on project needs and performance.
- Work will not require access to confidential or proprietary information belonging to any employer, client, or institution.
- Payments for subsequent engagements are made weekly based on services rendered through available payment platforms.
- H-1B and STEM OPT candidates are not currently supported.
Equal Employment Opportunity
We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.
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