About the job
Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.
Position: Audit Expert
Type:Contract
Compensation:$60–$85/hour
Location:Remote
Role Responsibilities
- Develop long-horizon audit tasks with deterministic rubrics to evaluate agent performance against verifiable ground truth.
- Create scenarios for Planning: risk assessments with documented ratings and audit programs mapped to assertions.
- Design Execution tasks: control testing with known populations and confirmations against a ground-truth response set.
- Conduct Wrap-up activities: workpaper reviews with pre-identified defects and deficiency memos with required fields.
- Work independently and asynchronously to produce challenging scenarios requiring long sessions of focus.
Qualifications
Must-Have
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting.
- 2+ years in external audit (Big 4 or national firm) or internal audit at a public company.
- Comfortable with audit artifacts: workpapers, walkthroughs, test matrices, deficiency write-ups.
- Clear written communication; ability to articulate reasoning and encode it into deterministic rubrics.
Preferred
- CPA or CPA candidate.
- Expertise in SOX ITGCs, substantive analytics, sampling methodology, revenue or inventory cycles, or specific audit software (Aura, Clara, Canvas, TeamMate, AuditBoard).
Compensation & Legal
- Hourly contractor, Paid weekly via Stripe Connect.
Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)
- Upload resume
- AI interview based on your resume
- Submit form
Resources & Support
- For details about the interview process and platform information, please check: https://talent.docs.mercor.com/welcome
- For any help or support, reach out to: support@mercor.com
PS: Our team reviews applications daily. Please complete your AI interview and application steps to be considered for this opportunity.