Technical Accounting Expert Revenue Recognition & Leases - AI Research

About Aptura Aptura works with leading foundational AI labs to bring institutional finance expertise directly into AI model development. Founded by ex-Lazard and Partners Group professionals, we operate from London and San Francisco.

The Opportunity You've written position memos, navigated complex revenue arrangements, and made lease judgements that survived audit. Now that expertise has a new application: shaping how frontier AI models reason through technical accounting problems the way a trained specialist does.

What You'll Do

• Design realistic technical accounting tasks: complex revenue arrangements and lease judgements that don't have a clean textbook answer

• Write evaluation rubrics that capture how a strong technical accountant reasons to a position — not just the number it lands on

• Review AI-generated accounting positions and memos for technical accuracy, defensibility, and disclosure implications under US GAAP and IFRS

• Build reference memos and worked examples — multi-element arrangements, variable consideration, lease classification and remeasurement — that set the standard models are evaluated against

• Flag where models apply a standard mechanically or miss the second-order consequences, and explain why it matters
  

You May Be A Good Fit If

• 5–8+ years in technical accounting, accounting advisory, a Big 4 national / technical office, or as a corporate technical accounting lead

• You've written or reviewed position memos that survived audit

• CPA, ACA / ACCA, or equivalent (preferred, not required)

• You can explain a judgement call clearly enough that a non-specialist — or a model — learns the reasoning, not just the conclusion
  

How Engagements Work
Fully remote, part-time and flexible. Work is scoped by project and ranges from short engagements to ongoing collaborations, structured as a contract or a monthly retainer.

Compensation
$80–$200 per hour, aligned with expertise, scope, and impact; exceptional or highly specialised expertise can go higher. Ongoing engagements are typically structured as a monthly retainer rather than hourly billing.