Finance & Accounting Expert

Confidential; United States; Remote; USD 102,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

Zekai is seeking a Finance & Accounting Expert for a fully remote contractor role. You will design multi-step finance tasks with objective grading criteria and real reference materials, focusing on FP&A, reporting, audits, and reconciliations. Strong domain knowledge and precise evaluation standards are essential.

This remote, project-based engagement pays up to $90/hour and requires strong English. Open to applicants worldwide with no geographic restriction.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on FP&A, financial reporting, audit, reconciliations, or accounting.
• Experience creating or applying structured review standards: audit programs, checklists, rubrics.
• Strong Excel capability and ability to reason across multiple documents.
• CPA, CA, ACCA, CMA or equivalent is a plus.
• Strong written English.
• AI or LLM evaluation experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design multi-step tasks drawn from real finance and accounting work with realistic reference files and clear instructions.
• Define objective grading criteria so two qualified reviewers would reach the same verdict.
• Build tasks that require judgment rather than lookup and that depend on reading materials correctly.
• Create or source supporting materials: spreadsheets, GL extracts, financial statements, policy documents.
• Flag tasks that are ambiguous or ungradable.
• Deliver approved tasks on schedule and at the required quality level.

Skills

Excel proficiency

Written English

AI/LLM evaluation

Education

CPA/CA/ACCA/CMA or equivalent

Job description

Role Title: Finance & Accounting Expert

Role Type: Contractor

Location: Remote, global

Opportunity Snapshot

Pay: Up to $90/hour equivalent.

Time per task: ~10 hours per task

Engagement: Project-based - paid per approved task

Location: Fully remote - no geographic restrictions. Strong English required (B2 advanced or C1 minimum)

Your tasks: Design realistic, multi-step finance and accounting tasks with objective criteria for grading the output

our partner is engaging experienced finance and accounting practitioners to design the tasks that measure what AI systems can actually do. Your domain knowledge is what matters here - no prior AI experience required.

The work is to turn real finance workflows into benchmark tasks: realistic, difficult, and gradable against objective criteria. If you've built a review checklist, trained a junior analyst against a standard, or signed off on someone else's workpapers, that's the instinct this needs.

Scope of Work

• Design multi-step tasks drawn from real finance and accounting work - FP&A analysis, financial reporting, audit procedures, reconciliations - with realistic reference files and clear instructions.
• Define objective grading criteria so two qualified reviewers would reach the same verdict on the same output.
• Build tasks that require judgment rather than lookup: ones where the right answer depends on reading the materials correctly.
• Create or source the supporting materials each task needs: spreadsheets, GL extracts, financial statements, policy documents.
• Flag tasks that turn out to be ambiguous or ungradable instead of submitting them anyway.
• Deliver approved tasks on schedule and at the required quality level.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on responsibility in FP&A, financial reporting, audit, reconciliations, or accounting - direct ownership of the work, not supervisory-only or adjacent exposure.
• Experience creating or applying structured review standards: audit programs, review checklists, close checklists, grading rubrics, or training assessments.
• Strong Excel capability and comfort reasoning across multiple documents at once.
• CPA, CA, ACCA, CMA or equivalent is a plus, but not required.
• Strong written English.
• AI or LLM evaluation experience is a plus, but not required.

This is a 100% remote contract role, open to applicants worldwide in the countries the employer accepts.