The Value Pricing Podcast Build Your AI-Team: The Future of Hiring in Accounting
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Mar 30, 2026 Emily Cross, head of marketing and AI specialist, shares practical guidance for building AI-capable accounting teams. She covers hiring for skills over tasks, using ChatGPT to craft job ads and screening funnels, designing interviews and short skills tests, and onboarding for retention. Short demos show tailoring adverts for platforms and creating a streamlined hiring workflow.
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Remote Work Is A Hiring Requirement
- Remote and hybrid work is now a core expectation for many accounting hires.
- Emily Cross explains post-COVID flexibility attracts self-motivated staff and must be supported by tools like Slack, Zoom, and Loom to maintain cohesion.
Hire For Advisory Not Data Entry
- AI and automation are shifting accounting roles away from manual data entry toward analysis, advisory, and client communication.
- Emily warns that hiring for manual tasks is risky because those tasks can be automated faster and cheaper than hiring.
Require AI Literacy And Prompt Skills
- Prioritise AI literacy and basic prompt engineering when hiring so new hires can use AI as a productivity tool.
- Emily recommends training existing staff in AI or hiring someone with prompt-engineering skills because those skills materially speed workflows.