Fp&A Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $110/Hr

Mercor; Sydney; Remote; AUD 96,000 - 152,000; Part time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an FP&A Expert on a contract basis to review and QA AI-agent rollouts within the Financial Forecaster environment. You will assess agent outputs against the model and document findings, ensuring accuracy and reliability.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in FP&A or related fields and can read a Financial Forecaster model at a glance, identifying inputs, calculations and governing scenarios with sound judgment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in FP&A, financial reporting, technical accounting, or lender reporting.
• Ability to read a Financial Forecaster model on sight. Identify inputs, calculations, overrides, and governing scenarios.
• Reflexive with Financial Forecaster's scenario and import mechanics.
• Sound judgment on correct, complete answers. Confidence to mark plausible answers wrong.
• Preferred: Credit agreement compliance and borrowing base reporting.
• Preferred: Going concern or impairment analysis.
• Preferred: Segment/SEC reporting or disclosure committee experience.
• Preferred: Hands-on experience across multiple models and entities.

Responsibilities

• Review and QA AI-agent rollouts in Financial Forecaster. Judge agent answers against the actual model and documents.
• Identify failure modes where agents succeed too easily or fail wrongly. Flag tasks that are too easy or solvable without using Financial Forecaster.
• Improve realism and difficulty by refining task prompts. Ensure tasks reflect authentic FP&A and lender-reporting work.
• Update grading guidance for accuracy. Ensure correct answers pass and wrong ones fail, including gating failures.
• Catch plausible-but-wrong answers that a non-expert reviewer might miss. Ensure consistency with the rest of the pack.

Skills

Sound judgment

Confidence to challenge

Reading FP&A model

Tools

Financial Forecaster

Job description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

Position: FP&A Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $70–$110/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Review and QA AI-agent rollouts in Financial Forecaster. Judge agent answers against the actual model and documents.
• Identify failure modes where agents succeed too easily or fail wrongly. Flag tasks that are too easy or solvable without using Financial Forecaster.
• Improve realism and difficulty by refining task prompts. Ensure tasks reflect authentic FP&A and lender-reporting work.
• Update grading guidance for accuracy. Ensure correct answers pass and wrong ones fail, including gating failures.
• Catch plausible-but-wrong answers that a non-expert reviewer might miss. Ensure consistency with the rest of the pack.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• Frequent hands-on Financial Forecaster use for real forecasting, covenant, or reporting work.
• 5+ years in FP&A, financial reporting, technical accounting, or lender reporting.
• Ability to read a Financial Forecaster model on sight. Identify inputs, calculations, overrides, and governing scenarios.
• Reflexive with Financial Forecaster's scenario and import mechanics.
• Sound judgment on correct, complete answers. Confidence to mark plausible answers wrong.

Preferred

• Credit agreement compliance and borrowing base reporting.
• Going concern or impairment analysis.
• Segment reporting, SEC reporting, or disclosure committee experience.
• Hands-on experience across multiple models and entities.