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Generalist Accounting Expert

Create and review accounting materials that help AI systems reason about financial reporting. You will use Excel and PowerPoint to model accounting activity, explain its financial statement effects, and check that the work is accurate and consistent.

Field
Finance & accounting
Where
United States, Albania, Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Australia +89 more
Commitment
part time
Hours
up to 20/week
Posted
4 days ago

Pay data for your profession: Accounting AI trainer jobs · Finance AI trainer jobs

How this pay compares

At $115/hr, this role pays more than 80% of the 175 open finance & accounting roles with a listed pay range, above the median of $85.

Among platforms with 10 or more priced finance & accounting roles, micro1 has the highest median ($90/hr across 23 roles) and Alignerr the lowest ($73/hr across 35).

OpenTrain AI roles that closed since late October stayed listed a median of 31 days (122 roles). OpenTrain AI posted this one 4 days ago.

Computed from 2,746 open roles we track across Mercor, micro1, Handshake AI, Alignerr, Appen and OpenTrain AI, refreshed daily. Midpoints of listed ranges; “up to” ceilings are left out of medians.

What you would earn at this rate

Rate

$115/hr

Per week, before tax

$2,300

Per month, if the work is steady

$9,967

Tax
Contract pay arrives with no tax withheld. A US contractor at this rate and these hours would set aside about $2,520 a month for self-employment tax plus federal income tax at the 12% bracket (25%, before state tax). Outside the US, your own country's rules apply.

Assumes paid hours only; unpaid assessments, onboarding and gaps between projects lower the real figure. Full take-home calculator · Track what you actually earn

Open finance & accounting roles on each platform

The same kind of work, priced on every platform we track, with the best-paid open role on each.

PlatformOpenMedianBest-paid open role
micro123$90/hrDomain Researcher, Finance$400k-800k/yr
OpenTrain AIthis role93$90/hrFinance Professional$245-280/hr
Mercor28$90/hrPharma Commercial Forecasting Expert — Launch Curves$130-210/hr
Alignerr35$73/hrAccounting Specialist — Excel Dataset Creation$40-150/hr
Handshake AI26up to $83/hrInvestment BankersUp to $175/hr

“Up to” rows list only ceilings, so their median is a maximum, not comparable with the range midpoints above them.

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The full listing

As posted on OpenTrain AI. See the original

The work

Create and review accounting materials that help AI systems reason about financial reporting. You will use Excel and PowerPoint to model accounting activity, explain its financial statement effects, and check that the work is accurate and consistent.

  • Build GAAP-accurate Excel schedules for ASC 606 revenue recognition, ASC 842 leases, ASC 718 stock compensation, deferred tax rollforwards, and consolidation eliminations.
  • Prepare PowerPoint summaries of financial statement impacts, technical accounting memos, control observations, and policy implications.
  • Create sample monthly and quarterly close packets, audit workpapers, tie-outs, flux analyses, and draft disclosures.
  • Reconcile accounting flows, validate logic, find errors, explain reporting consequences, and maintain audit-defensible detail.

What it pays and takes

  • Pay: $115 per hour.
  • Hours: Less than 20 hours per week; part-time, asynchronous, and project-based.
  • Location: Remote; open only in the countries listed for this role.
  • Language: Fluent English.
  • Required: An active U.S. CPA license and strong knowledge of U.S. GAAP and standard close, audit, and reporting workflows.
  • Required: Experience preparing or reviewing financial statements, footnotes, and supporting workpapers; advanced Excel skills for tracing activity from subledgers through journals, trial balances, and financial statements.
  • Required: QuickBooks experience and the ability to explain accounting conclusions clearly in PowerPoint and written memos.
  • Helpful: Background in public accounting, corporate reporting, technical accounting, complex transactions, or SOX. Experience with revenue recognition, leases, stock compensation, deferred taxes, consolidation, and audit documentation is relevant.
  • You should be interested in improving AI reasoning about accounting and financial reporting.

How it works

Apply on OpenTrain with your resume, then complete the application on the hiring site.

About AI training work

AI training work uses examples prepared and reviewed by people to help AI systems learn. In this role, accounting schedules and reporting materials provide examples of how financial reporting works.

From applying to your first payment on OpenTrain AI

  1. 1

    Create a profile

    Create a free OpenTrain profile with your domains, languages and hourly rate.

  2. 2

    Apply

    Apply to the listing. Some listings hire through OpenTrain; others send you to the hiring platform.

  3. 3

    Funded milestones

    The client funds each milestone before work starts.

  4. 4

    First payment

    OpenTrain pays out to your connected payout method when the client approves the milestone. It doesn't publish a fixed payout schedule.

Sources: OpenTrain: AI training careers, OpenTrain docs: invoicing and payouts

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Pay history

OpenTrain AI has listed this role at $115/hr since Nov 10, 2026 with no change.

Across OpenTrain AI's finance & accounting roles, the median listed pay was $90/hr on Nov 1, 2026 (37 roles) and is $90/hr as of Nov 11, 2026 (92 roles).

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