AfterQueryDomain experts
Generalist Accounting Expert
$115/hr
About this role, in AfterQuery's words
This is a remote, part-time accounting role. You'll use Excel and PowerPoint to replicate the kinds of schedules, statements, and summary memos typical in corporate accounting, audit, and reporting. Projects are asynchronous and flexible, with ~10 hours/week expected when active.
What you'll do
Responsibilities
- Build GAAP-accurate Excel schedules: revenue recognition (ASC 606), leases (ASC 842), stock comp (ASC 718), deferred tax rollforwards, consolidation eliminations, etc.
- Create PowerPoint summaries of financial statement impacts, technical accounting memos, control observations, and policy implications
- Simulate monthly/quarterly close packets, audit workpapers, tie-outs, flux analyses, and draft disclosures
- Validate logic, reconcile flows, and ensure internal consistency at “audit-defensible” fidelity
Candidate background
Required qualifications
- Active CPA license (any state)
- Strong command of U.S. GAAP and standard close/audit/reporting workflows
- Experience preparing or reviewing financial statements, footnotes, and supporting workpapers
- Advanced Excel skills modeling accounting mechanics (subledgers → journals → TB → FS)
- Interest in improving AI’s ability to reason about accounting and financial reporting
- Quickbooks Experience
Preferred qualifications
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- 2–10 years in public accounting (Big 4 or top regional) or corporate reporting
- Experience with technical accounting, complex transactions, or SOX
- T50 undergraduate or T20 master’s in accounting or related field (optional)
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Full job descriptionThe original posting, in AfterQuery's words
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This is a remote, part-time accounting role. You'll use Excel and PowerPoint to replicate the kinds of schedules, statements, and summary memos typical in corporate accounting, audit, and reporting. Projects are asynchronous and flexible, with ~10 hours/week expected when active.
Responsibilities - Build GAAP-accurate Excel schedules: revenue recognition (ASC 606), leases (ASC 842), stock comp (ASC 718), deferred tax rollforwards, consolidation eliminations, etc. - Create PowerPoint summaries of financial statement impacts, technical accounting memos, control observations, and policy implications - Simulate monthly/quarterly close packets, audit workpapers, tie-outs, flux analyses, and draft disclosures - Validate logic, reconcile flows, and ensure internal consistency at “audit-defensible” fidelity
Required qualifications - Active CPA license (any state) - Strong command of U.S. GAAP and standard close/audit/reporting workflows - Experience preparing or reviewing financial statements, footnotes, and supporting workpapers - Advanced Excel skills modeling accounting mechanics (subledgers → journals → TB → FS) - Interest in improving AI’s ability to reason about accounting and financial reporting - Quickbooks Experience
Preferred qualifications - 2–10 years in public accounting (Big 4 or top regional) or corporate reporting - Experience with technical accounting, complex transactions, or SOX - T50 undergraduate or T20 master’s in accounting or related field (optional)
Why apply - YC-Backed Exposure — Your work shapes next-generation AI trained on real accounting logic - Flexible Structure — Fully remote, async, and project-based
Working with AfterQueryPay, getting started and work, from AfterQuery's own pages
What the platform publishes in general. These are not extra terms confirmed for this particular role.
- Getting paid
- Approved work is paid every Friday for the prior week, by Stripe to a bank account, with no fees. Stripe holds the first payout for 7 days. docs.afterquery.com/articles/payments-taxes/payment-setup
- Before your first paid task
- One assessment per expert pool, unpaid and with no retake. Onboarding takes about 10 minutes: legal documents, phone, ID through Persona, and payments. docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/assessments, docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/complete-your-onb...
- How much work
- Projects are assigned by assessment fit as they come up, and higher-rated contributors get priority. docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/assessments, docs.afterquery.com/articles/about/contract-work
- Contract
- Independent contractor. Most contractors register as individuals. docs.afterquery.com/articles/about/contract-work, docs.afterquery.com/articles/onboarding/complete-your-onb...
Read on the pages linked above on 23 Sep 2026. Platforms change these terms, so check the linked page before you rely on one.
How does the pay compare?Across Domain experts roles, not this role alone
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Pay across the field: Domain experts
Across 698 roles in this field with a stated hourly rate in US dollars, on 18 platforms, the middle half pays $65 to $130 an hour at the top of the range, and the median is $100. This role's top rate, $115, is in the middle half. Of the 260 distinct rates we count, 168 are lower and 90 are higher.
| Platform | Roles | Top of range, per hour |
|---|---|---|
| Alignerr | 149 | $24 to $200 · median $80 |
| micro1 | 136 | $28 to $400 · median $110 |
| AfterQuery (this platform) | 87 | $45 to $175 · median $100 |
| Handshake AI | 79 | $30 to $300 · median $85 |
| Mercor | 78 | $55 to $450 · median $120 |
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This listing's history
- First seen here on 26 Aug 2026, and still on AfterQuery's list when we last read it on 12 Oct 2026.
- Listed pay changed on 29 Sep 2026: up to $150/hr before, $115/hr after.
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- Listing ID
- 1764632206267
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