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Senior Finance Specialist
SME Careers • Remote
Education
Not stated
Type
Hourly
Pay Rate
$35–$90/hr
Listed
107d ago
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In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will review AI-generated finance analyses and/or generate expert finance content, evaluating reasoning quality and step-by-step problem-solving while providing precise written feedback. You will assess solutions for accuracy, clarity, and adherence to the prompt; identify methodological or conceptual errors; fact-check financial claims and assumptions; write high-quality explanations and model solutions; and rate and compare multiple responses based on correctness and reasoning quality. This role is with SME Careers, a fast-growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, delivering training data for many of the world’s largest AI companies and foundation-model labs. Your finance expertise directly helps improve the world’s premier AI models by making their financial reasoning more accurate, reliable, and clearly explained.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop AI Training Content: Create detailed prompts in various topics and responses to guide AI learning, ensuring the models reflect a comprehensive understanding of diverse subjects.
- Optimize AI Performance: Evaluate and rank AI responses to enhance the model's accuracy, fluency, and contextual relevance.
- Ensure Model Integrity: Test AI models for potential inaccuracies or biases, validating their reliability across use cases.
Your Profile
- Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business, Financial Engineering, or Quantitative Finance (including coursework in Micro/Macro, Corporate Finance, Investments, Econometrics, and Accounting).
- 5+ years of professional experience in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business, Financial Engineering, or Quantitative Finance.
- Strong command of financial statements, valuation (DCF and multiples), time value of money, and markets/instruments.
- Confident in risk/return reasoning, basic macro & microeconomic intuition, and financial modeling logic (assumptions, drivers, sensitivities, consistency checks).
- Able to rigorously review and explain reasoning, identify methodological errors, and fact-check claims with high attention to detail; Minimum C1 English proficiency.
- Comfortable applying structured sanity checks (conservation-style checks for finance: reconciliation, sign/units consistency, boundary cases, and plausibility bounds).
- Reliable, self-directed, and able to deliver consistent quality in an hourly, remote contractor workflow across time zones.
- Previous experience with AI data training/annotation, expert review, or editorial QA is strongly preferred.
🌍 Geographic Availability This role is available to qualified experts globally. However, as a U.S.-based company, SME Careers complies with U.S. export control and sanctions regulations. Eligibility depends on your country of residence and any applicable trade restrictions. Some projects may have additional language or region-specific requirements.
💰 Pay Rate May Vary Based on Your Location Your actual compensation will be determined based on your location and local market conditions. See regional job listings for localized pay information, or the application process will clarify your specific rate.
If you're unsure whether you're eligible, proceed with the application—SME's screening will determine your jurisdiction status and applicable compensation.
Why this role
Most AI training platforms leave you doing the same tasks indefinitely. SME Careers runs a real promotion path from Senior Finance Specialist into Quality Analyst and Project Manager roles, paid weekly through Deel, on hours you set yourself.
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Common questions
Is SME Careers work ongoing or project-based?
Project-based. Assignment duration and availability vary by project, but consistently high-quality work earns priority access to whatever comes next.
Does SME Careers offer a path for advancement?
Yes. SME Careers is unusual among AI training platforms for this: it publishes an explicit career ladder, Data Trainer, then Quality Analyst, then QA Lead, then Project Manager. Consistent, high-quality work is what moves you up it.
What does task-based AI training work look like?
Practical, hands-on data work: recording short videos, categorizing images, rating text responses, or analyzing data. Tasks are designed to be short and distinct, typically 5 to 60 minutes each.
What does asynchronous AI training work mean in practice?
No set hours, no check-ins, no meetings. You log in when you want, pick up an available task, complete it, and submit; nobody is waiting on you in real time. That's different from remote employment, where you're expected online during business hours. The tradeoff: you're competing with others for available tasks, so an empty queue means there's simply nothing to do until more work is released.
What does Business work look like for a Senior Finance Specialist?
Tasks here are scoped to Business, not generic labeling. As a Senior Finance Specialist, expect to draw on real domain judgment (evaluating outputs, correcting errors, or providing expert reasoning specific to Business) rather than following a one-size-fits-all rubric. If you don't have hands-on Business background, this is likely not the right listing to start with.
What specific skills does this listing call for?
AI Training is named directly in the listing. If you don't have hands-on experience with this, expect the screening process to test for it directly rather than accepting adjacent experience as a substitute.
How much does this specific role pay?
This listing is posted at $35–$90/hr, an hourly rate. The range reflects experience level and negotiated terms, not a placeholder, so where you land in it depends on your background and the assessment. Pay can change between when we last checked the listing and when you apply, so confirm the current number on the platform's own application page before committing time.
What happens when I click Apply on this listing?
You'll be taken to SME Careers's external site to complete your application there. This listing links through a referral, but the process is identical to applying directly; the link just routes you correctly. Create an account on their site and follow their onboarding steps.
Who is behind SME Careers?
SME Careers is the expert talent division of SuperAnnotate, an AI data infrastructure platform, connecting domain experts with high-level AI training projects.