Finance, Accounting & Economics Expert →

IsoData; United States; Remote; USD 207,000 - 413,000; Part time

Job summary

IsoData, a remote US-based team, seeks finance professionals and economists to build models, review valuation work, and write accounting and market problems for projects. Pay ranges from $150 to $300 per hour, paid per accepted task with no guaranteed volume.

Ideal candidates hold finance/economics degrees, strong spreadsheet ability, and optional coding skills in Python, R, or SQL. The role spans valuation, corporate finance, markets, and econometrics.

Qualifications

• Study at or graduated from a college or university in finance, accounting, economics or a quantitative field.
• A model, analysis or valuation you built yourself and can explain in depth.
• Strong spreadsheet skills: you can rebuild a model from scratch and find where it breaks.
• Care with assumptions, timing and units.

Responsibilities

• Build models and problems where one wrong assumption changes the answer, such as a DCF with the wrong tax rate, with reference solutions.
• Review model work on valuation, reconciliation, pricing and economic reasoning, and show the corrected number.
• Write accounting tasks, such as a revenue-recognition or lease question, checked against the standard.
• Write market and pricing problems, such as an option price or a bond’s duration, with checkable answers.
• Write rubrics that check the numbers, the method and the assumptions.

Skills

Python

R

SQL

Education

Finance/Economics degree

Master's/PhD/CFA/CPA (advanced)

Job description

Remote, United States. Project-based.

For finance professionals and economists who can find the number a convincing model gets wrong. Write and review tasks in markets, valuation, accounting, insurance and economics.

Pay: $150 to $300 an hour, paid per accepted task. There is no guaranteed project, task volume, hours or pay.

You must live in the US, be at least 18 and be authorized to work in the United States. We accept applications on an ongoing basis.

What you would do

• Build models and problems where one wrong assumption changes the answer, such as a DCF with the wrong tax rate, with reference solutions.
• Review model work on valuation, reconciliation, pricing and economic reasoning, and show the corrected number.
• Write accounting tasks, such as a revenue-recognition or lease question, checked against the standard.
• Write market and pricing problems, such as an option price or a bond’s duration, with checkable answers.
• Write rubrics that check the numbers, the method and the assumptions.

The minimum

• You study at or graduated from a college or university in finance, accounting, economics or a quantitative field.
• A model, analysis or valuation you built yourself and can explain in depth.
• Strong spreadsheet skills: you can rebuild a model from scratch and find where it breaks.
• Care with assumptions, timing and units.

Ideal

• A degree in the field; a master’s, PhD, CFA or CPA is even better.
• Analyst, audit, trading, actuarial or research work, especially at an AI lab or AI company.
• Coding for analysis, such as Python, R or SQL.
• Published research or work others relied on for real decisions.

This position covers

Valuation and corporate finance, Markets and trading, Quantitative finance, Accounting and audit, Insurance and claims, Economics and econometrics.

IsoData provides equal opportunity to all applicants. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status or any other protected trait. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

IsoData recruits Experts for its own projects.