Accountant - AI Trainer

DataAnnotation; Texas; On-site; USD 55,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

DataAnnotation is seeking an Accountant to evaluate AI outputs against real accounting practice. You will write prompts, review models for misapplied standards, and craft correct answers with transparent working.

Ideal candidates hold a CPA/ACCA or equivalent, have professional accounting experience, and are fluent in written English. The role is flexible, remote, and project-based with compensation tied to task difficulty.

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

CPA/ACCA

Accounting experience

Written English

Bookkeeping

Education

CPA/ACCA certification

Professional accounting experience

Tools

Excel

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.

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.