Financial Due Diligence & Transaction Accounting

Confidential; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Zekai is seeking a Financial Due Diligence & Transaction Accounting Expert for a remote contractor role. You will review transaction analyses, challenge assumptions, and verify AI-generated deliverables with hands-on AI tool experience.

This role requires 5+ years in financial due diligence or related fields, and hands-on experience with agentic AI tools. Remote worldwide availability is possible, with 10+ hours/week and potential for more.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in financial due diligence, transaction services, or carve-out analyses.
• Direct responsibility for preparing or reviewing transaction-related financial analyses and deliverables.
• Hands-on experience using agentic AI tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or Claude Cowork.

Responsibilities

• Review financial due diligence, quality-of-earnings, and carve-out financial analyses for accuracy, completeness, and supporting evidence.
• Identify unsupported adjustments, reconciliation issues, double counting, and inconsistent accounting treatment.
• Use agentic AI tools to support review and help develop realistic transaction materials, task instructions, and objective grading criteria.

Skills

Financial analysis

Due diligence

Transaction services

Quality review

Education

CPA qualification

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Codex

Claude Cowork

Job description

Role Title: Financial Due Diligence & Transaction Accounting Expert

Role Type: Contractor

Location: Remote - US/Canada preferred; UK and Latin America also considered

Pay: $60-120/hr. Paid per task

Time commitment: 10+ hours/week required; 20+ preferred.

Time per task: Approximately 3 hours, following approximately 15 hours of initial environment development. Estimates include agent execution time.

Your tasks: Primarily review transaction-related financial analyses and AI-generated deliverables, and help develop task instructions and objective evaluation criteria.

our partner is engaging experienced financial due diligence and transaction accounting professionals to help build tasks that measure how effectively AI systems can perform complex transaction work.

You’ll apply your transaction expertise to review realistic financial analyses, challenge assumptions, and identify material errors. Hands-on experience with agentic AI tools is required: you’ll work with agents to support analysis and independently verify the quality of their outputs.

Scope of Work

• Review financial due diligence, quality-of-earnings, and carve-out financial analyses for accuracy, completeness, and supporting evidence.
• Identify unsupported adjustments, reconciliation issues, double counting, and inconsistent accounting treatment.
• Use agentic AI tools to support review and help develop realistic transaction materials, task instructions, and objective grading criteria.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience, including substantive hands-on work in financial due diligence, transaction services, or carve-out financial analysis.
• Direct responsibility for preparing or reviewing transaction-related financial analyses and deliverables. Audit experience or a CPA alone is insufficient.
• Hands-on experience using agentic AI tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or Claude Cowork for substantive work. General chatbot use alone is insufficient.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at a Big Four firm or another leading transaction advisory practice.
• CPA qualification.
• Experience developing review standards, training junior professionals, or writing internal playbooks.
• Prior benchmark development or AI evaluation experience.
• Availability for 20+ hours per week.

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