Staff Accountant - AI Trainer

DataAnnotation; Montreal (administrative region); Remote; CAD 78,000 - 245,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible, remote work

Job summary

DataAnnotation is seeking an Accountant to evaluate AI outputs against real accounting practice and craft precise, step-by-step answers.

You’ll write prompts, review model reasoning, and provide corrected solutions with working shown. CPA/ACCA or equivalent training or experience is preferred; clear written English is essential. This is flexible, remote, project-based work with varied tasks and compensation.

Qualifications

• CPA, ACCA, or equivalent training, or professional accounting experience.
• Comfort across bookkeeping, financial reporting, or tax.
• Clear written English: explanations are the training signal.

Responsibilities

• Write prompts that test how models handle bookkeeping, reporting standards, and tax scenarios.
• Review AI output for misapplied standards, arithmetic slips, and entries that don't reconcile, and rate the reasoning.
• Write the correct answer when the model falls short, with the working shown clearly.

Skills

Bookkeeping

Financial reporting

Tax

Clear written English

Education

CPA / ACCA or equivalent training

Job description

Models produce confident accounting answers that fail on the details: misapplied standards, broken reconciliations, and journal entries that don't balance.

As an Accountant you'll grade AI output against real accounting practice and write the answers a careful professional would give.

What you’ll actually do

• Write prompts that test how models handle bookkeeping, reporting standards, and tax scenarios.
• Review AI output for misapplied standards, arithmetic slips, and entries that don't reconcile, and rate the reasoning.
• Write the correct answer when the model falls short, with the working shown clearly.

Roles this fits

Common backgrounds: Corporate Controller, Revenue Accountant, Staff Accountant.

What we look for

• CPA, ACCA, or equivalent training, or professional accounting experience.
• Comfort across bookkeeping, financial reporting, or tax.
• Clear written English: your explanations are the training signal.

How it works

Compensation

Up to $40 – $125+/hr depending on task difficulty and specialization. Many contributors add $10k–$100k+ a year; some make it their full-time income.

About DataAnnotation

DataAnnotation is where 100k+ experts train the world’s leading AI models. $150M+ paid to contributors to date, and the average contributor stays 5+ years. Flexible, remote, and always project-available.