Domain Expert – Financial Reporting
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Workiva financial reporting expert validating SEC filings, XBRL, and disclosures. Training Mercor’s AI systems through expert review of financial reporting workflows.
Responsibilities:
- Confirm filing figures, tags, and disclosures are correct and traceable to their sources
- Trace linked data through Workiva from source spreadsheets to filing figures
- Tie out filings through footing, cross-footing, and reconciliation to trial balances and supporting schedules
- Evaluate XBRL/iXBRL tagging, including taxonomy elements, custom extensions, periods, signs, and dimensions
- Check disclosure completeness against Reg S-X and S-K requirements
- Review Workiva workflows, including tasks, comments, sign-offs, and versions
- Detect broken or stale links, mis-tagged XBRL elements, sign or period errors, and out-of-scope edits
- Assess whether all affected statements, footnotes, and tags are updated when figures change
- Distinguish document validation from readiness for SEC review or audit
- Verify that unsupported requests, such as editing locked sections or overriding signed-off controls, are refused
Requirements:
- Use Workiva regularly—weekly or more—as part of your current or recent role
- 3+ years of SEC reporting, technical accounting, or SOX/internal audit experience at a public company or audit firm
- Ability to identify broken tie-outs, incorrect XBRL elements, and missing disclosures
- Strong working knowledge in at least 2–3 specialized areas: 10-K, 10-Q, and 8-K preparation and EDGAR filing; SOX 404 controls documentation, testing, and deficiency evaluation; ESG and sustainability reporting; earnings releases and board or management reporting; rollforwards and linkage to face statements; Workiva administration
- CPA strongly preferred
- Big 4 or public-company reporting background preferred
- Prior data annotation, labeling, or AI evaluation experience is a plus
- Must be able to work as an independent contractor
- H-1B and STEM OPT candidates are not supported
Benefits:
- Fully remote role
- Flexible schedule; work 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
- Up to $400 referral payment for each successful referral, subject to referral limits
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
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