FP&A Expert
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FP&A expert reviewing Financial Forecaster models and lender-reporting tasks for Mercor. QA-ing AI agents and improving grading guidance for frontier AI systems.
Responsibilities:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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
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