Molly Liu和Aman Puri正从另一个角度——全球化视角——着手解决美国会计师短缺问题。周一，他们宣布其于2023年创立的AI驱动型人才市场Mavi正式走出隐身模式。该服务帮助美国企业在数天内与全球顶尖、精通AI技能的财务和会计人才建立联系并完成入职。
Molly Liu and Aman Puri are tackling the U.S. accounting shortage from another angle — a global one, that is. On Monday, they announced that their AI-powered talent marketplace Mavi, founded in 2023, has officially emerged from stealth. The service helps connect and onboard U.S. companies with top AI-proficient global financial and accounting talent within days.
在接受TechCrunch采访时，联合首席执行官Liu指出了当前美国会计行业面临的问题——主要是从业人员队伍在萎缩，而留下来的人未必精通帮助企业发展所需的AI技能。与此同时，她表示，许多美国企业不愿与全球人才合作，要么是因为雇佣和管理流程复杂，要么是单纯认为这些人才水平不够。
Speaking to TechCrunch, Liu, the company’s co-CEO, pointed out the problems facing the U.S. accounting industry today — mainly that the profession is shrinking and even those left aren’t necessarily fluent in the AI skills needed to help their enterprises grow. At the same time, she said, many U.S. companies don’t like the idea of working with global talent, either because it’s complex to hire and manage them or because they simply don’t think the talent is good enough.
她说：“全球劳动力市场涌现出一波新的优秀人才，门槛极高，水平与美国持平甚至更胜一筹。”这就是Mavi切入的地方。Liu表示，Mavi还帮助企业处理雇佣全球人才带来的繁琐事务，如管理跨境合同、法律合规、甚至薪资发放。她称，公司专注于快速寻找全职、长期的岗位匹配，以增强企业内部财务团队实力，重点关注中高级职位。
“There’s been a new wave of tremendous talent, a really high bar that is equal or even better than the U.S.,” she said of the global workforce. And that’s where Mavi comes in, which, Liu said, also helps companies handle the unglamorous work that comes with hiring global talent, like managing cross-border contracts, legal and compliance, and even payroll. She said the company focuses on quickly finding full-time, long-term placements that augment in-house finance teams, with a focus on mid-level and senior-level positions.
Liu曾任职于Ramp、Lyft和Dropbox。她表示，这些工作经历让她意识到，更多的自动化工具无法解决会计领域的所有问题。
Liu has worked at Ramp, Lyft, and Dropbox. She said working at these companies made her realize that more automation tools can’t fix all the problems in accounting.
她说：“AI将自动化取代财务和会计领域的许多初级岗位，这将进一步加剧中级经验人才的短缺，因为随着时间推移，能成长为中级人才的初级人才会越来越少。”
“AI will automate away many entry-level roles in finance and accounting, which will further exacerbate the talent shortage at the mid-level experience level, given there will be less entry-level talent growing into the mid-level over time,” Liu said.
因此，无论发布多少 AI 工具来自动化繁杂工作，企业仍然需要经验丰富的人类来对关键工作做出判断。事实上，她说，她注意到，一家公司采用的 AI 工具越多，给高级岗位人员带来的压力就越大。
So no matter how many AI tools are released to automate grunt work, companies still need experienced humans to make judgment calls on critical work. In fact, she said, she’s noticed that the more AI tools a company adopts, the more pressure that adds to those in senior roles.
“他们越来越被期望发挥更多推理技能，”她继续说道。“财务团队现在被迫以少做多。”但还有另一个障碍——会计师的含义正在缓慢转变。她说，例如，一位精通 AI 的会计师，是指具备扎实财务会计基本功，同时也能指挥 AI 工具干活、运用判断力捕捉 AI 的错误；能将大语言模型（LLM）集成到财务会计工作流中，并熟悉最新 AI 原生 ERP 和工具的人。“传统会计师具备会计基本功，但仅对如何将 AI 融入财务和工作流，或如何在财务领域审查和管理 AI 工具有基本了解，”她继续说道。
“They are increasingly expected to add more of their reasoning skills,” she continued. “Finance teams are now being pushed to do more with less.”But there’s another snag — the fact that what it means to be an accountant today is slowly shifting. An AI-proficient accountant, for example, is someone with strong finance and accounting fundamentals, she said, but who can also direct AI tools to do work, apply judgment to catch what AI gets wrong; someone who can integrate LLMs into finance and accounting workflows and is familiar with the latest AI-native ERPs and tools. “A traditional accountant has the accounting fundamentals but only has a basic understanding of how to incorporate AI into finance and workflows or how to review [and] manage AI tools within finance,” she continued.
去年，该公司完成了一轮 400 万美元的种子轮融资，由 Harlem Capital 领投，直到周一才对外宣布。刘表示，公司平台上现已有超过 3000 名会计专业人士，企业客户包括个人护理公司 Athena Club。
Last year, the company raised a $4 million seed round led by Harlem Capital, which it had not announced until Monday. Liu says the company now has more than 3,000 accounting professionals on the platform and enterprise clients that include the personal care company Athena Club.
“我们对未来财务团队的模样有着非常强烈的见解，”她说。“我们的工作重点在于那些高技能人才，以及对所有财务团队和所有业务职能整体而言至关重要的新判断力层面，以便能在更高层级乃至更远的未来运作。”
“We have a very strong point of view as to what the future of the finance team looks like,” she said. “The work for us is focusing on that high-skill talent and that new layer of judgment that is paramount to all finance teams and all business functions as a whole, to be able to operate at the next level and beyond.”