Corporate Accountant - Financial Reporting

Role Overview

Mercor is collaborating with a leading AI lab to engage experienced corporate / controllership accountants. You'll translate the day-to-day of running the books — financial reporting, the month-end close, and core accounting operations — into structured, high-quality training data that teaches AI to reason about real accounting work.

Financial accounting & reporting, bookkeeping / client accounting services (CAS), accounting operations (AP / AR / payroll).

• Design realistic scenarios from your controllership work — financial statement preparation, journal entries, account & bank reconciliations, month-end / period-end close, fixed-asset & depreciation schedules, accruals and prepaids

• Review and compare AI-generated accounting outputs for accuracy, GAAP compliance, and sound professional judgment

• Provide clear written feedback that improves how AI performs close and reporting tasks

• Collaborate asynchronously with the research team

• CPA, or 3-5+ years of corporate/in-house or firm accounting experience (no niche certification required)

• Hands-on ownership of the general ledger and the period-end close

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field

• Comfortable with common accounting tools (Quick Books, Net Suite, SAP, Oracle, Excel)

• Strong written communication and attention to detail