Tax and Audit Expert
Status: Open
- Pay
- $80/hr
- Location
- Remote — Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brazil, Cambodia, Germany, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, The Philippines, The United States, Timor Leste, Vietnam
- Employment type
- Contractor
About this opportunity
Required skills
- Tax Compliance
- Regulatory Filings
- Workpapers & Documentation
- Financial Statement Audit
- GAAP/IFRS
- English
- Internal Controls (SOX)
- Risk Assessment
- Audit Planning
- Tax research
What you'll do
- Develop AI Training Content: Create detailed prompts and gold-standard outputs across tax and audit topics (tax scenarios, audit programs, workpaper examples, control assessments, and technical explanations).
- Optimize AI Performance: Evaluate and rank AI responses to improve technical correctness, clarity, compliance alignment, and practical usefulness.
- Ensure Model Integrity: Test AI outputs for inaccuracies, unsafe/noncompliant guidance, and bias; validate reliability across business scenarios.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Accounting, Finance, Taxation, or a related field; CPA/ACCA/EA/CIA (or local equivalent) is a strong plus.
- 5+ years of professional experience in tax and/or audit (public accounting, advisory, internal audit, or industry).
- Strong command of tax fundamentals relevant to your jurisdiction(s): corporate/individual basics, taxable income adjustments, credits/deductions, nexus/permanent establishment awareness, withholding/VAT/GST concepts (as applicable).
- Strong command of audit fundamentals: planning, materiality, risk assessment, control testing, substantive procedures, sampling concepts, and audit evidence quality.
- Proven ability to review or prepare workpapers, reconciliations, and documentation that is clear, defensible, and audit-ready.
- Solid understanding of internal controls (segregation of duties, approvals, access controls) and familiarity with SOX concepts is a plus.
- Exceptional attention to detail when fact-checking and identifying unsupported conclusions, missing steps, incorrect citations, or noncompliant recommendations; minimum C1 English proficiency.
- Comfortable evaluating answers for internal consistency (debits/credits, timing/cutoff, tax logic, and financial statement impacts).
- Reliable, self-directed, and able to deliver consistent quality in an hourly, remote contractor workflow across time zones.
- Prior experience with AI data training/annotation, audit QA, tax technical writing, or policy interpretation is strongly preferred.