Finance & Accounting Task Author (AI Training)

Alignerr; Johannesburg; Remote; ZAR 248,000 - 482,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Freelance autonomy

Flexible hours

Job summary

Alignerr is seeking an experienced finance professional to design and validate accounting reconciliation tasks for AI systems. As a Task Author, you will craft realistic, numerically rigorous scenarios—billing versus revenue, payment-to-invoice matching, and margin analysis—that challenge AI agents while remaining objectively scorable.

This is a fully remote, hourly contract role. Candidates should have hands-on accounting experience, sharp numerical reasoning, and familiarity with IFRS; ERP

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience as an accountant, finance analyst, or in a closely related role.
• Strong, precise numerical reasoning and ability to work through multi-step reconciliation problems.
• Knowledge of revenue recognition principles, matching rules, and standard accounting workflows (IFRS welcome).

Responsibilities

• Author realistic task prompts centered on accounting reconciliation: matching payments to invoices, reconciling billing against recognized revenue, and analyzing margin reports.
• Write scoring rubrics that specify exact numerical outcomes and the reasoning steps required to reach them.
• Set up task environments with the financial data, documents, and system states needed to replicate a realistic accounting scenario.
• Solve each task yourself to validate that the numbers work and the rubric is correct.
• Calibrate task difficulty — adjust data complexity, ambiguity in source documents, or required reasoning steps until the task reliably challenges the model to the intended degree.
• Review and correct AI-drafted task prompts or rubrics when provided.

Skills

Accounting experience

Numerical reasoning

Finance analysis

Education

CA(SA)/CIMA/ACCA

Tools

Excel

Job description

About The Role

What if your finance and accounting expertise could directly shape how AI handles real enterprise financial work? Alignerr is building a dataset of expert tasks that train and evaluate advanced AI agents on accounting reconciliation — and we're looking for experienced finance professionals in South Africa to help design them.

As a Task Author, you will create realistic, numerically rigorous accounting scenarios — billing versus revenue reconciliation, payment-to-invoice matching, margin report analysis — that genuinely challenge capable AI agents while remaining objectively scorable.

This is a fully remote, flexible contract role. No AI background required — just deep accounting expertise and strong analytical skills.

• Organization: Alignerr
• Type: Hourly Contract
• Location: Remote
• Commitment: Flexible, task-based

Key Responsibilities

• Author realistic task prompts centered on accounting reconciliation: matching payments to invoices, reconciling billing against recognized revenue, and analyzing margin reports
• Write scoring rubrics that specify exact numerical outcomes and the reasoning steps required to reach them
• Set up task environments with the financial data, documents, and system states needed to replicate a realistic accounting scenario
• Solve each task yourself to validate that the numbers work and the rubric is correct
• Calibrate task difficulty — adjust data complexity, ambiguity in source documents, or required reasoning steps until the task reliably challenges the model to the intended degree
• Review and correct AI-drafted task prompts or rubrics when provided

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience as an accountant, finance analyst, or in a closely related role
• Strong, precise numerical reasoning and demonstrated ability to work through multi-step reconciliation problems
• Solid knowledge of revenue recognition principles, matching rules, and standard accounting workflows (IFRS experience welcome)
• Ability to define verifiable correctness criteria — exact figures, reconciled balances, or documented variance explanations
• Comfortable working with financial documents, spreadsheets, and accounting system outputs
• Iterative mindset: willing to test and refine tasks until difficulty and gradability are both right

Nice to Have

• Experience in mining, manufacturing, or enterprise B2B finance environments
• Familiarity with ERP or accounting platforms (e.g., SAP, Sage, Pastel, NetSuite)
• CA(SA), CIMA, or ACCA qualification or equivalent
• Background in audit, financial controls, or revenue assurance

Why Join Us

• Work on cutting-edge AI projects alongside leading research labs
• Fully remote and flexible — work when and where it suits you
• Freelance autonomy with the structure of meaningful, task-based work
• Contribute to AI development that directly shapes how technology handles enterprise finance
• Potential for ongoing work and contract extension as new projects launch