About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark , General Catalyst , Peter Thiel , Adam D'Angelo , Larry Summers , and Jack Dorsey .

Position: Audit Expert

Type: Contract

Compensation: $60–$85/hour

Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

- Develop long-horizon audit tasks with deterministic rubrics to evaluate agent performance against verifiable ground truth.
- Create scenarios for Planning : risk assessments with documented ratings and audit programs mapped to assertions.
- Design Execution tasks: control testing with known populations and confirmations against a ground-truth response set.
- Conduct Wrap-up activities: workpaper reviews with pre-identified defects and deficiency memos with required fields.
- Work independently and asynchronously to produce challenging scenarios requiring long sessions of focus.

Qualifications

Must-Have

- Bachelor's degree in Accounting.
- 2+ years in external audit (Big 4 or national firm)



or internal audit at a public company.
- Comfortable with audit artifacts: workpapers, walkthroughs, test matrices, deficiency write-ups.
- Clear written communication; ability to articulate reasoning and encode it into deterministic rubrics.

Preferred

- CPA or CPA candidate.
- Expertise in SOX ITGCs , substantive analytics, sampling methodology, revenue or inventory cycles, or specific audit software ( Aura , Clara , Canvas , TeamMate , AuditBoard ).

Compensation & Legal

- Hourly contractor , Paid weekly via Stripe Connect .

Application Process (Takes 20–30 mins to complete)

- Upload resume
- AI interview based on your resume
- Submit form

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📌 Audit Specialist - SOX ITGC Expert (Toronto)
🏢 Mercor
📍 Toronto