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Description and Requirements

Work Location: Position Type: Contract, 6 months Location: Mountain View, California, USA

Compensation Range: $37-42/hr USD per hour

Our Fortune 500 client is seeking an Accountant.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and prioritize valuable workflows.
• Translate customer needs into practical use cases and assess opportunities based on customer value, frequency, complexity, and accounting risk.
• Represent different user personas.
• Define how workflows, explanations, and review requirements should differ for business owners, bookkeepers, external accountants, and finance leads.
• Define accounting correctness.
• Specify expected calculations, accounting treatments, assumptions, supporting evidence, and final QuickBooks Online (QBO) records.
• Recognize when multiple treatments are acceptable or additional information is needed.
• Assist in developing realistic evaluations.
• Create representative business scenarios, test datasets, reference answers, and scoring criteria.
• Include incomplete records, conflicting information, exceptions, and multi-step workflows.
• Verify completed outcomes.
• Review both the agent’s response and the resulting accounting records.
• Confirm that requested actions were completed correctly, records reconcile, and explanations accurately describe what happened.
• Diagnose failures and guide improvements.
• Identify accounting errors, missing steps, unsupported conclusions, and confusing interactions.
• Turn findings into reproducible examples and actionable requirements for technical teams.
• Define appropriate controls.
• Help establish when an agent can proceed, should ask a clarifying question, needs approval, or should refer an issue for professional review.
• Improve the overall experience.
• Review how agents communicate findings, explain decisions, handle exceptions, and help users understand the next step.

Skills:

• Substantial hands-on accounting or bookkeeping experience supporting small and midsize businesses, ideally across multiple clients or industries.
• Working proficiency with QBO, including recording and reviewing transactions, reconciling accounts, and interpreting financial reports.
• Ability to independently verify accounting outcomes in QBO and investigate discrepancies.
• Strong analytical skills and comfort working with spreadsheets and structured datasets.
• Ability to translate ambiguous customer requests into explicit requirements, assumptions, and acceptance criteria.
• Ability to explain accounting reasoning clearly to both accounting professionals and non-accountants.
• Curiosity about AI tools and willingness to test their behavior critically and systematically.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with product, design, and engineering teams.

Education:

• CPA, CA, or equivalent professional accounting qualification.
• Advanced QBO expertise across multiple businesses or complex workflows; QBO ProAdvisor certification is a plus.
• Experience collaborating with software product teams, conducting user acceptance testing, or developing quality standards.
• Familiarity with AI evaluation, scoring rubrics, or reviewing AI-generated financial analysis.

All interested applicants who meet the qualifications listed above are invited to submit a resume by clicking "Apply Now". The indicated pay range for this position is a good‑faith estimate based on the qualifications necessary for the position, including experience, training, and other considerations permitted by law. The pay band is established by the client company. Factors that may influence an offer include a candidate’s skills, experience, geographic location, and expected work quality and quantity. Most candidates will start in the lower half of the pay range, with the upper end reserved for those with extensive experience and skills or who live in higher‑pay markets. An employee’s pay history will not be considered where prohibited by law. This information is subject to change and serves as a general guideline for compensation discussions. Actual offers may vary based on specific circumstances and company policies.