Controller Experts: $70-$160/hr from AI Labs & Fintech

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$70-$160/hr accounting and controllership work, on your schedule

Review AI-generated close workflows, financial reporting, and accounting treatments the way you'd review them before they hit the financials. Flag the misclassification, the accrual that's off, the policy applied wrong. The judgment that owns the integrity of the numbers is what AI labs need.

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Hi, we're Zac and Jack, the founders of Terac. We want to talk to you directly, because you are the most important part of what we're building.

Terac is a community of experts. People who have spent years getting good at something specific and hard. The world is about to need more of you, not less. As AI takes on more of the world's work, the bottleneck shifts to the people who actually know what they're talking about.

Expert labor is the rarest resource in the world right now, and it is shockingly hard to find. The companies that need a controller's eye on a close that won't reconcile spend weeks chasing people, paying placement fees, and settling for whoever is available. Meanwhile thousands of qualified people are sitting with knowledge that no one ever asks for.

That gap is what we're here to close. Every project that lands on Terac is routed to the people who actually know the answer, on their schedule, paid fairly, and only when the work is verified. No middleman taking a cut of your time. No vague gigs. No chasing checks.

We care about every single person in this community. If you join Terac, you're not a row in a database to us. We read the feedback. We answer the emails. We will fight for you when a customer is being unreasonable, and we will be honest with you when something on our side is broken. The quality of this panel is our entire company, and we owe you a serious bar.

If you've made it this far, here is what we're asking: claim your profile. Put your expertise on the record. Let the world's most ambitious teams come find you for the work only you can do.

Zac & Jack

Founders

Controllership questions

Still curious? Write to us at support@terac.com.

Specialists in lease accounting, revenue recognition, and similar technical areas are exactly what the work calls for, because AI models struggle most with the judgment calls that generalists rarely face. You might be asked to review model-generated memos on contract modifications, variable consideration, or sale-leaseback classifications, and to explain the reasoning a controller would actually apply. The narrower your expertise, the more precisely you can surface where a model is wrong.

An active CPA license is not a hard requirement for most tasks, and many contributors hold an inactive or lapsed license while still practicing as controllers or VP Finance. What matters is your working knowledge of GAAP, close processes, and the technical accounting areas you claim, which we assess through your profile attestations and a short qualification task. If specific tasks require sign-off judgment tied to licensure status, that will be stated in the opportunity.

Both types exist. Some tasks ask you to evaluate AI-drafted account reconciliations, flux analyses, or close checklists against GAAP and internal-control standards, flagging errors or missing disclosures. Others ask you to produce a worked example, such as walking through how you would structure a consolidation elimination or a lease modification analysis, so the model can learn from your actual reasoning process.

The platform draws on both backgrounds, and industry controllers are specifically needed for tasks involving budgeting-to-actuals variance analysis, intercompany eliminations, ERP workflow judgment, and management reporting. You can indicate your background during onboarding, and opportunities are matched accordingly, so you will not be routed toward audit-opinion or PCAOB-specific tasks if that is outside your current practice.

The tasks involve reviewing and annotating AI-generated content or creating your own examples using hypothetical or anonymized scenarios, not representing actual client or employer financial data. You are never asked to certify AI output as accurate or to put your name on work that will be presented as authoritative financial statements. If a task description ever feels like it crosses that line, you can decline it without penalty and flag it for review.

Why your expertise matters

Controllership is where accounting policy meets operational reality: a controller's judgment spans technical GAAP/IFRS interpretation, month-end close integrity, internal control design, and SEC/regulatory disclosure, all of which are areas where AI models produce plausible-sounding errors that only a practitioner can catch. Getting these domains right matters enormously because AI-generated financial reporting guidance, close checklists, and variance narratives are already entering corporate workflows, and a hallucinated revenue recognition treatment or a misapplied ASC 842 lease classification could flow through to audited financials. Your ability to spot the subtle but material mistakes - a deferred tax asset that is incorrectly netted, a segment aggregation judgment that ignores FASB criteria - is exactly the signal that makes training data credible.

How pay works

Rates toward the top of the $70-$160/hr band reflect depth in high-stakes sub-specialties: Big Four or national firm experience, CPA licensure with active CPE, hands-on work with technical accounting matters such as business combinations under ASC 805, VIE consolidations, or complex lease portfolios, and familiarity with SEC comment letter practice or SOX 302/404 attestation. All work is fully remote and billed by the hour against verified task completion, so you are paid for the expert judgment you deliver, not for time sitting in a queue.

What the work looks like

A sample of the accounting and controllership work you would pick up. Every project is scoped, remote, and paid on verified completion.

Review an AI-generated revenue recognition memo for a SaaS contract and flag any misapplication of the five-step ASC 606 model, including incorrect variable consideration constraint or standalone selling price allocation.
Evaluate a model-produced month-end close checklist for a mid-market manufacturer and identify missing journal entry types, incorrect cutoff procedures, or controls that would not satisfy a Big Four auditor.
Assess an AI-drafted ASC 740 tax provision narrative and correct errors in the effective tax rate reconciliation, uncertain tax positions, or valuation allowance analysis.
Create a worked example of a proper consolidation elimination entry for an intercompany sale of fixed assets, annotating each step the way you would explain it to a staff accountant.
Score several AI-generated variance analysis narratives against a set of actual general ledger line items and rate each one on factual accuracy, materiality judgment, and appropriate escalation language.
Identify the specific GAAP violation in a set of AI-produced balance sheet classifications and write a brief explanation of the correct treatment, citing the authoritative standard.