Accountant - AI Trainer

DataAnnotation; Des Moines (IA); Remote; USD 55,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Flexible projects

Job summary

DataAnnotation is seeking an Accountant to grade AI outputs against real accounting practice and provide careful, professional answers.

You’ll write prompts, review AI results for misapplied standards and arithmetic slips, and supply the correct solutions with clear working, supporting quality and consistency across tasks. This is a flexible, remote role with project-based opportunities.

Qualifications

• 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.

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 knowledge

Clear written English

Education

CPA/ACCA or equivalent

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.