Finance Expert - Technical Accounting

Mercor; Toronto; Remote; CAD 99,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Flexible hours

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a Non-Investment Finance Expert to craft and evaluate expert-grade deliverables for frontier AI finance work. You will build reconciliations, three-statement models, and pro-forma analyses, while judging AI outputs against professional standards.

You should have 5+ years in hands-on finance roles, CPA or equivalent, and strong US GAAP/IFRS knowledge with advanced Excel modeling. This is a remote, flexible-hours contract role with billing at $85/hr.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a hands-on non-investment finance role (product control, FP&A, treasury, or related).
• CPA/CA/ACA/ACCA/CIMA or equivalent strongly preferred.
• Strong US GAAP and IFRS knowledge with advanced Excel modeling.
• Comfort exercising professional judgment on incomplete or ambiguous information.
• Operational and technical finance experience, not markets.

Responsibilities

• Build and review deliverables such as PnL and MTM reconciliations, vendor/AP reconciliations, and 3-statement models.
• Reason from primary sources and separate material from distractors.
• Write clear CFO-ready narratives explaining assumptions, variances, and recommendations.

Skills

Financial modeling

US GAAP

Strong Excel skills

Analytical thinking

Education

CPA / CA / ACA / ACCA / CIMA (or equivalent)

Tools

Excel modeling

Job description

Non-Investment Finance Expert - AI Training & Evaluation

We're building frontier AI for complex, real-world finance work, and we need senior finance practitioners to produce and evaluate expert-grade work products that set the bar for what "correct, professional output" looks like. You'll work through realistic, document-heavy scenarios - messy source files, distractors, ambiguous guidance - and either produce the deliverable yourself or judge AI-generated attempts against a professional standard. This is hands-on finance craft, not survey-taking.

What you'll do

• Build and review deliverables such as: PnL and mark-to-market reconciliations (trader vs. accounting, month-end marks, commissions, adjustments); vendor / AP payment reconciliations under cash constraints with controls (PO, P-card, aging); integrated 3-statement and pro-forma models including purchase-accounting impacts (ASC 805 deferred-revenue haircut, PPA amortization, synergy phasing); covenant and credit analysis; and partnership / professional-services allocations (profit-pool waterfalls, capital accounts).

• Reason from primary sources - term sheets, purchase/partnership agreements, trial balances, memos, emails - and separate what's material from deliberate distractors.

• Write clear, CFO/partner-ready narratives that explain assumptions, variances, and recommendations.

Who we're looking for

• 5+ years in a hands-on non-investment finance role: product control / financial control, corporate FP&A, technical accounting, treasury / financial operations / AP-P2P, commercial-banking credit, or professional-services / partnership finance.

• CPA / CA / ACA / ACCA / CIMA (or equivalent) strongly preferred.

• Strong US GAAP / IFRS (bonus: ASC 805 & 606) and advanced Excel modeling (linked 3-statement models, reconciliations, pro formas).

• Comfort exercising professional judgment on incomplete or ambiguous information.

• Note: a CFA / investing / portfolio-management background is not required - this is operational and technical finance, not markets.

Details

$85/hr · remote · flexible hours · contract.