Senior Accounting Engineer: AI-Driven Audit Leadership

Midwest Startups; Northern (KY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Oath is advancing AI-driven auditing to transform the accounting landscape. This senior Accounting Engineer will own engagements end to end, guiding methodology, AI-enabled procedures, and client communications with a focus on defensible, evidence-backed work.

You will define how AI should perform audits, drive process improvements across multiple client types, and mentor a growing team of Accounting Engineers in a fast-paced startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Own a portfolio of client relationships from onboarding through engagement completion and renewal.
• Lead complex, high-stakes or first-of-kind engagements, and be the escalation point when clients or teammates hit hard methodology questions.
• Explain AI-generated work product to client finance teams and fund managers, and build their confidence in how it was produced.
• Turn patterns across clients into product and process changes, with clear priorities for engineering.
• Plan engagements: assess risk, set materiality and scope procedures across private funds and SPVs, private companies, employee benefit plans, governments and nonprofits.
• Act as reviewer on verification and audit procedures and AI-generated workpapers; sign off on them before they reach clients or engagement partners.
• Make and document the judgment calls on sufficiency and appropriateness of evidence, so a peer reviewer can follow your reasoning.
• Track AICPA auditing and attestation standards and firm quality management policies, and keep our methodology and AI workflows current with them.
• Write and maintain the audit methodology, work programs and quality review standards our AI workflows are built on.
• Define accuracy requirements with engineering and product, and design the evals and test cases that prove an AI workflow is reliable.
• Build modules and prototypes using AI and technology tools.
• Decide, with the engagement partner, when a new AI-assisted procedure is ready for client use — and when it isn't.
• Build feedback loops so every engagement improves the system.
• Mentor Accounting Engineers, review their work and raise the team's standard of judgment.
• Help hire, interview and onboard new team members.
• Grow our internal knowledge base so what one person learns, everyone can use.

Job description

Oath is advancing AI-driven auditing to transform the accounting landscape. This senior Accounting Engineer will own engagements end to end, guiding methodology, AI-enabled procedures, and client communications with a focus on defensible, evidence-backed work.

You will define how AI should perform audits, drive process improvements across multiple client types, and mentor a growing team of Accounting Engineers in a fast-paced startup environment.