FP&A Expert

Mercor

. Review and QA AI-agent rollouts in Financial Forecaster .

Posted 9/21/2026contractRemote • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $70 - $110 per hourWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Financial Forecaster with a strong background in FP&A, financial reporting, and technical accounting. Capable of evaluating AI-agent performance and refining task prompts to enhance realism and accuracy in financial modeling.

Highest-signal resume keywords

Financial Forecaster ProficiencyFP&A ExperienceTechnical Accounting KnowledgeScenario Analysis SkillsGAAP Compliance Knowledge

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Hard Skills

Financial ForecasterFP&A AnalysisFinancial ReportingTechnical AccountingLender ReportingTreasury ManagementModel NavigationCSV Data LoadingVariance CommentaryCovenant Calculations

Soft Skills

Sound JudgmentAttention to DetailAnalytical Thinking

Certifications & Qualifications

CPACFAMBA

Industry Keywords

GAAPNon-GAAPAICPA PFI GuidanceASC 205-40ASC 280SAB 99Reg S-K Item 303Credit Agreement MechanicsCovenant MeasuresConsolidated Reporting

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Review and QA AI-agent rollouts in Financial Forecaster
Evaluate completed agent runs against the actual model and documents
Verify the correct scenario, account, coordinate, basis, conclusion, and deliverable
Identify agent failure modes and explain why agents succeed or fail
Flag tasks that are too easy or solvable without using Financial Forecaster
Refine task prompts and seeded worlds to reflect authentic FP&A and lender-reporting work
Increase task realism and difficulty for capable AI agents
Update grading guidance so correct answers pass and incorrect answers fail
Detect gating failures such as wrong scenario or vintage, wrong accounting basis, excluded add-backs, unwritten model corrections, or conclusions given away by source documents
Catch plausible but incorrect answers stated at the wrong grain or inconsistent with the reporting pack
Work on projects training and enhancing AI systems for Mercor and its research partners

Requirements

What you’ll need

Must use Financial Forecaster regularly, weekly or more, as part of current or recent professional work
5+ years of professional experience in FP&A, financial reporting, technical accounting, lender reporting, treasury, or controllership
Experience as an FP&A analyst/manager, financial reporting analyst, technical accounting analyst, treasury/lender-reporting analyst, or controller
Able to navigate multidimensional models, dimensions, account hierarchies, and cube slices
Able to create, configure, inherit, lock, and identify governing scenarios
Able to distinguish input accounts from calculated accounts and edit formulas versus assumption cells appropriately
Experience loading actuals and driver data through CSV imports with correct units and scales
Knowledge of scenario notes, driver notes, policy notes, planning notes, assumption change logs, and variance commentary
Able to identify what Financial Forecaster cannot produce
Able to read scenarios and reporting packs and trace figures to accounts, scenarios, and coordinates
Able to identify overrides, forecast vintage, lock or acceptance dates, and governing scenarios
Able to decode Time, Entity, Department, Product/Product Line, Region, Debtor, and Aging Bucket dimensions
Able to locate and tie out figures driving covenants, KPIs, or disclosures
Able to detect unit, scale, period, LTM, and fiscal-year-to-date mismatches
Able to reconcile conflicting in-world sources and determine which governs
Knowledge of legal entity, department, segment, and consolidated reporting structures
Knowledge of credit agreement mechanics, covenant calculations, borrowing bases, eligible accounts, redetermination, and compliance certificates
Knowledge of GAAP, non-GAAP, covenant measures, non-GAAP reconciliation, AICPA PFI guidance, ASC 205-40, ASC 280, SAB 99 / Topic 1M, Release 33-10751, and Reg S-K Item 303
Able to distinguish a complete deliverable from a statement merely describing it
Familiarity with Financial Forecaster scenario creation, locking, saved views, and exports
Sound judgment regarding correct and complete answers, with confidence to reject plausible but incorrect answers
CPA, CFA, or MBA welcome but not required
Must be legally eligible to work without H1-B or STEM OPT support

Benefits

Comp & perks

Fully remote role
Flexible schedule; can be completed on your own schedule
Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance
Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered
Competitive pay
Collaboration with leading researchers
Opportunity to help shape the next generation of AI systems
Referral bonus of up to $440 per successful referral
Reasonable accommodations upon request