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About the Role
Mercor is collaborating with a leading AI lab to engage experienced audit and controls professionals - external audit and internal audit / SOX. You'll translate real audit and controls work into structured, high-quality training data that teaches AI to reason the way auditors do. External audit & assurance · internal audit, risk & controls (SOX).
What You'll Do
Design realistic scenarios from your work - audit planning, scoping & risk assessment; substantive fieldwork, sampling & testing workpapers; the audit report & opinion / engagement wrap-up; PBC support; SOX controls documentation, walkthroughs & testing; issue tracking and remediation validation
Review and compare AI-generated audit outputs for accuracy, evidential support, and sound professional judgment
Provide clear written feedback that improves how AI performs audit and controls tasks
Collaborate asynchronously with the research team
You're a Good Fit If You
Public accounting audit background (Big 4 or regional firm) and/or internal audit / controls (SOX) background
CPA or CIA
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
Strong written communication and attention to detail
Independent contractor engagement, fully remote. Mercor pays weekly via Stripe or Wise.
Common Questions
Mercor has a reliability rating of very reliable based on the listings we track, with an onboarding time of 1-3 weeks (interview + assessment + trial). See our full Mercor review for the details behind that rating.
Applying takes you to Mercor's own website, where the application is completed. We are not a recruiter or employer and do not process applications directly - we may be recorded as the referring source.
$80-$120/h - Independent contractor engagement, fully remote. Mercor pays weekly via Stripe or Wise.
Design realistic scenarios from your work - audit planning, scoping & risk assessment; substantive fieldwork, sampling & testing workpapers; the audit report & opinion / engagement wrap-up; PBC support; SOX controls documentation, walkthroughs & testing; issue tracking and remediation validation Review and compare AI-generated audit outputs for accuracy, evidential support, and sound professional judgment Provide clear written feedback that improves how AI performs audit and controls tasks
