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Oath is building AI systems to transform the audit industry. As a Senior Accounting Engineer, you will own the intersection of client engagements, audit judgment, and AI—leading client relationships end-to-end, verifying that AI-generated audit procedures meet professional standards, and defining the methodology that engineering and product teams embed into the platform.
This is an early senior hire at a startup with wide scope and direct influence over how the firm and platform operate. Unlike traditional senior accounting roles focused on staff supervision, you will decide how AI should execute audit procedures, define what "right" looks like with defensible evidence, and prove it to reviewers, regulators, and peer reviewers.
Key responsibilities include:
• Client Leadership: Own a portfolio of client relationships from onboarding through engagement completion and renewal. Lead complex, high-stakes, or first-of-kind engagements. Serve as the escalation point for methodology questions. Explain AI-generated work product to client finance teams and fund managers, building confidence in the process.
• Audit Quality & Judgment: Plan engagements by assessing risk, setting materiality, and scoping procedures across private funds, SPVs, private companies, employee benefit plans, governments, and nonprofits. Act as reviewer on verification and audit procedures and AI-generated workpapers before they reach clients. Make and document judgment calls on sufficiency and appropriateness of evidence. Track AICPA auditing and attestation standards and keep methodology current.
• Methodology & AI Systems: Write and maintain audit methodology, work programs, and quality review standards that AI workflows are built on. Define accuracy requirements with engineering and product teams. Design evals and test cases proving AI workflow reliability. Build modules and prototypes using AI and technology tools. Decide when new AI-assisted procedures are ready for client use. Build feedback loops so every engagement improves the system.
• Team: Mentor Accounting Engineers and review their work. Help hire, interview, and onboard new team members. Grow the internal knowledge base so organizational learning scales.
Requirements:
- 6–10+ years of relevant accounting or audit experience
- CPA certification required
- Ability to turn hard, unstructured problems into systems others can rely on
- Comfort with ambiguity and direct influence over firm and platform direction
