General Accountant

About this role

**Role Overview** Mercor is collaborating with a leading AI lab to engage experienced accounting professionals across all areas of practice — including audit, tax, financial reporting, bookkeeping, controllership, forensic, and accounting systems. Contributors help build AI systems that reason about real accounting work by translating everyday accounting workflows, judgments, and decision-making into structured, high-quality training data. **Key Responsibilities** - Design realistic accounting scenarios and tasks drawn from your day-to-day work (e.g., financial statement preparation, reconciliations, journal entries, audit procedures, tax filings, month-end close, internal controls) - Review and compare AI-generated accounting outputs for accuracy, standards compliance (GAAP/IFRS), and sound professional judgment - Create structured examples that reflect how accountants actually reason through problems - Provide clear written feedback that improves how AI performs accounting tasks - Collaborate asynchronously with the research team **Ideal Qualifications** - 3+ years of professional experience in accounting, audit, tax, bookkeeping, or finance operations (public accounting, corporate/in-house, advisory, or a firm) - CPA, CA, ACCA, CMA, EA, or an equivalent professional credential required - Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field - Comfortable with common accounting tools (e.g., QuickBooks, NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, Excel) - Strong written communication and attention to detail **More About the Opportunity** - Open to all accounting specialties — contribute where your expertise is strongest - Work spans task design, evaluation, and structured feedback on AI accounting outputs - Strong contributors advance into reviewer, lead, and domain-expert roles **Application Process** - Submit a resume or a short summary of your accounting experience - Complete a short form on your p