Tax and Audit Expert

In this hourly, remote contractor position, you will serve as a Tax & Audit Subject Matter Expert (SME), responsible for reviewing AI-generated tax and audit responses as well as creating expert accounting content. Your role involves evaluating the quality of reasoning and step-by-step problem-solving, while providing precise written feedback. You will assess solutions for accuracy, clarity, completeness, and adherence to prompts, identify errors related to tax treatment, compliance logic, audit methodology, risk assessment, internal controls, and financial reporting linkages. Additionally, you will fact-check technical claims, write high-quality explanations and model solutions demonstrating correct methods, and rate multiple responses based on correctness and reasoning quality. This opportunity is with SME Careers, a rapidly growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, which delivers training data to many of the world’s leading AI companies and foundation-model labs.

Key Responsibilities
- Develop AI Training Content: Create detailed prompts and gold-standard outputs covering tax and audit topics such as tax scenarios, audit programs, workpaper examples, control assessments, and technical explanations.
- Optimize AI Performance: Evaluate and rank AI responses to enhance technical accuracy, clarity, compliance alignment, and practical usefulness.
- Ensure Model Integrity: Test AI outputs for inaccuracies, unsafe or noncompliant guidance, and bias; validate reliability across various business scenarios.

Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Accounting, Finance, Taxation, or a related field. Professional certifications such as CPA, ACCA, EA, CIA, or local equivalents are highly desirable.
- A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in tax and/or audit, including public accounting, advisory, internal audit, or industry roles.
- Strong knowledge of tax fundamentals relevant to your jurisdiction(s), including corporate and individual tax basics, taxable income adjustments, credits and deductions, nexus/permanent establishment considerations, and withholding/VAT/GST concepts where applicable.
- Solid understanding of audit fundamentals, including planning, materiality, risk assessment, control testing, substantive procedures, sampling concepts, and evaluation of audit evidence quality.
- Proven ability to review or prepare clear, defensible, and audit-ready workpapers, reconciliations, and documentation.
- Good understanding of internal controls such as segregation of duties, approvals, and access controls; familiarity with SOX concepts is a plus.
- Exceptional attention to detail for fact-checking and identifying unsupported conclusions, missing steps, incorrect citations, or noncompliant recommendations. Minimum English proficiency at C1 level is required.
- Comfortable evaluating answers for internal consistency, including debits and credits, timing and cutoff issues, tax logic, and financial statement impacts.
- Reliable, self-directed, and able to maintain consistent quality while working remotely on an hourly contractor basis across multiple time zones.

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits
- Prior experience with AI data training or annotation, audit quality assurance, tax technical writing, or policy interpretation is strongly preferred.
- Although there is no immediate project available, qualified candidates will be among the first contacted for upcoming opportunities, providing access to future projects within the expert network.

This role offers a unique chance to contribute your tax and audit expertise to cutting-edge AI training initiatives, working flexibly from a remote environment with a fast-growing company at the forefront of AI data services.