CPA - Accounting Industry Skills Expert - Freelance

SweetRush • ,

5d • $125 - $125 • Remote

About The Position

SweetRush has an exciting opportunity for a CPA to join our Custom Learning team for a short-term engagement as a Skills & Performance Subject Matter Expert in the Accounting industry. At SweetRush, we believe that when you put people at the center of business, magic happens. As a global leader in learning and development, we blend high-end storytelling, emerging tech like AI and VR, and deep psychological insights to help organizations—from iconic global brands to essential non-profits—flourish. We are a remote-first, tight-knit community built on a foundation of radical empathy and creative excellence. Our work isn’t just about the awards we win with incredible partners such as Hilton, Google, Bridgestone, Adidas, SHRM, and numerous others; it’s about balancing profit with a genuine desire to spread good in the world. If you are a caring innovator who believes work should be life-centered and impactful, then this is where you come in… We are looking for a detail-oriented Accounting Skills & Performance Subject Matter Expert to translate high-level public audit and tax accounting strategies into an actionable, measurable learning blueprint. Working closely with SweetRush’s Learning Experience Design (LXD) team after the virtual CoDesign sessions to map out exactly what early-career CPAs need to know and do across all program learning experiences. Your primary output will be collaborating on the high-level program design document (HLD) to establish performance and knowledge objectives for all learning experiences.

Requirements

• A practitioner or technical expert who deeply understands the daily tasks, workflows, and skills in the standard audit practice area.
• A practitioner or technical expert who deeply understands the daily tasks, workflows, and skills in the standard tax practice area.
• Possesses an analytical mind capable of deconstructing their own expertise into clear, step-by-step performance metrics for an early-career learner.
• Analytical, methodical, and energized by turning abstract ideas into structured, execution-ready frameworks.
• CPA required

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with instructional frameworks (like mapping learning objectives to simulated environments) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Break down complex audit and tax practice area workflows into granular, practice-based performance objectives (what an entry-level CPA must do) and knowledge objectives (what they must know).
• Define the guardrails, decision points, and realistic professional mistakes that will form the basis of the scenarios and virtual simulations.
• Partner with SweetRush’s LXD team to ensure the design document serves as a blueprint to accelerate junior CPA performance and fast-track their path to the next level of professional competency and responsibility.
• Serve as the reality check for content depth, ensuring the scope is realistic, accurate, and directly ties back to desired behavioral changes.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Entry Level