$70-$160/hr accounting and controllership work, on your schedule
You review AI close workflows, reporting, and accounting treatments the way you'd review them before they hit the financials, flagging the misclassification. A few hours a week, remote, paid hourly.
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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.
Controllership questions
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Lease and revenue specialists are exactly what the work calls for, because models struggle most with judgment calls generalists rarely face. You'd review memos on contract modifications, variable consideration, or sale-leasebacks and explain the reasoning a controller actually applies. The narrower your expertise, the more precisely you surface errors.
An active license is not a hard requirement for most tasks; many contributors hold an inactive license while working as controllers or VP Finance. What matters is your working knowledge of GAAP and close processes, assessed through your profile and a short qualification task. License-dependent tasks will say so.
Both. Some tasks have you evaluate AI reconciliations, flux analyses, or close checklists against GAAP and control standards. Others ask you to produce a worked example, like a consolidation elimination or lease modification, so the model learns from your reasoning.
No. Industry controllers are specifically needed for budget-to-actual variance, intercompany eliminations, ERP workflow judgment, and management reporting. You indicate your background during onboarding and get matched accordingly, so you won't be routed to audit-opinion or PCAOB-specific tasks.
The tasks use hypothetical or anonymized scenarios, not real client or employer data. You never certify AI output as accurate or put your name on work presented as authoritative financials. If a task ever feels like it crosses that line, you can decline it without penalty and flag it.
Why your expertise matters
Today's accounting AI nets a deferred tax asset that should stand alone, misclassifies an ASC 842 lease, and aggregates segments against the FASB criteria. Catching that takes a controller, not a checklist. Your corrections teach these tools the difference between a clean-looking memo and numbers that survive the audit.
How pay works
Top of the $70-$160/hr band goes to Big Four depth, active CPAs, and hands-on work with ASC 805 combinations, VIE consolidations, or SEC comment-letter practice. All work is remote, a few hours a week, billed hourly per verified task. You're paid for the judgment you deliver, not queue time.
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 a model's revenue memo for a SaaS contract and flag any ASC 606 error, including the variable consideration constraint or standalone selling price allocation.
- Evaluate a model's month-end close checklist for a mid-market manufacturer and find missing entries, bad cutoff procedures, or controls a Big Four auditor would reject.
- Assess a model's ASC 740 provision narrative and correct errors in the effective tax rate reconciliation, uncertain positions, or valuation allowance.
- Build a worked consolidation elimination entry for an intercompany fixed-asset sale, annotated the way you'd explain it to a staff accountant.
- Score several AI variance narratives against real GL line items on accuracy, materiality judgment, and escalation language.
- Find the GAAP violation in a set of AI balance sheet classifications and write the correct treatment, citing the authoritative standard.
Specialties we match
Controllership projects span a wide range of focus areas. Tell us where you go deep and we route the work that fits.
- ASC 606 / IFRS 15 revenue recognition
- ASC 842 lease accounting
- SOX 302 / 404 internal controls
- Financial close and consolidation
- Deferred tax and ASC 740
- SEC reporting (10-K / 10-Q / 8-K)
- Business combinations (ASC 805)
- VIE and equity method accounting
- ERP general ledger (NetSuite, SAP, Oracle)
- Blackline / FloQast reconciliation workflows
- GAAP-to-IFRS conversion
- Technical accounting memos
