Accounting and Audit AI Jobs: Rates and Openings
Every figure on this page is read from 19 live listings on this board, 7 of which publish a rate. Updated 05 September 2026. See the full pay dataset.
Accountants and auditors are hired to check AI reasoning on financial statements, controls and tax.
What these roles pay
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Median advertised rate | $95/hr |
| Range across listings | $20 to $120/hr |
| Listings with a published rate | 7 of 19 |
Who is hiring
- Turing: 12 live roles
- micro1: 4 live roles
- Mercor: 3 live roles
Where you can work from
These listings are open to applicants in 58 countries. The most represented are United States, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan. Check your own country with the eligibility checker.
What the work actually involves
Taken from the live listings themselves:
- About Turing Turing is one of the world’s fastest-growing AI companies, accelerating the advancement and deployment of powerful AI systems.
- Role Overview We are seeking experienced B2B Account Executives to help train advanced AI systems.
- Join a leading AI lab's cutting-edge GenAI team to be at the core of the AI revolution, where your expertise fuels the development of the most advanced AI models.
- Overview We are hiring a senior accounting and audit domain expert to work directly with a leading AI lab's research and program management teams, improving how frontier AI models reason about real accounting and audit work.
Typical responsibilities
Pulled from the live listings in this category:
- Instruction specs and golden datasets: Write high-quality instruction specs, produce golden solutions to accounting and audit problems, and define new tasks that reflect how the work is actually done in practice.
- Benchmarks and domain depth: Design challenging accounting and audit tasks and evaluation sets, and help build domain-specific skills and tools together with the research team.
- Calibration: Work with client researchers and specialists in adjacent fields to keep standards consistent, translating tacit accounting judgment into explicit, teachable criteria.
- Evaluate AI-generated artifacts against domain-specific quality rubrics.
- Identify factual, aesthetic, and presentation errors.
- Provide clear, structured written feedback.
What employers ask for
- Credentials: An active professional credential, for example CPA, CA, CIA, CFE, or CMA, alongside a bachelor's or master's degree in accounting or a closely related field.
- Seniority: Clear progression to a senior level, for example Audit Manager, Senior Manager, Accounting Manager, Controller, Director of Accounting, or Partner, with real ownership of engagements or reporting cycles.
- AI fluency: Hands-on working use of large language models in your professional work, and the judgment to tell a well-reasoned answer from a plausible-sounding wrong one.
- Availability: Able to commit reliably to 40 hours per week for an initial engagement of 6 months.
- Excellent written communication, and the ability to give precise, well-structured written feedback.
- 5+ years of relevant professional experience in Finance operations / audit support.
How the pay is spread
Half of the listings with a published rate fall between $67 and $100 an hour. The bottom of the range is $20 and the top is $120. Rate depends far more on credentials and specialism than on which platform you use.
Which platform to start with
Turing currently lists the most roles in this category (12 of 19). Platforms differ mainly in eligibility and how they screen, not in the kind of work. See which platforms hire in your country before you spend time on applications.
How to apply
Applications are completed on the hiring platform, not on this site. Most of these platforms screen with a short qualification step before routing you to paid work, so a complete profile matters more than a long cover letter. Applying is free and none of these platforms charge a fee to start.
Live accounting and audit ai jobs roles
- Account Executives (B2B) (Europe/ US) via Turing
- Accounting & Audit Domain Expert via Mercor · $60-$100/hr
- Audit & Controls Specialist (External / Internal SOX) via Mercor · $80-$120/hr
- Business Account Rater -Bilingual (KO, DE, FR) via Turing
- Business Account Rater - English US via Turing
- Business Account Rater - Italian via Turing
- Business Account Rater - Portuguese (BR) via Turing
- Business Account Rater - Spanish via Turing
- Finance operations / audit support Evaluator via Mercor · $80-$120/hr
- Accountant (CPA/CA) via micro1 · $20-$30/hr
- Tax Advisor (CPA or EA) via micro1 · $80-$110/hr
- Tax Advisor (CPA) via micro1 · $80-$110/hr
- U.S based Accountant (CPA/CA) via micro1 · $65-$70/hr
- Personal Account Generalist Raters (US) via Turing
- Personal Account Generalist Raters (US) via Turing
- Personal Account Rater -English via Turing
- Personal Account Rater - French via Turing
- Product Manager , Operations & Controls Platform (Fund Controller Accounting & Global Business Finance) via Turing
- Senior Account Executives (B2B) (LATAM/ NA) via Turing