FP&A Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $110/hr

mercor; United States; Remote; USD 96,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking an FP&A Expert for a contract role with remote work. You will review and QA AI-agent rollouts in Financial Forecaster, ensuring accuracy against model outputs and documenting results.

The role requires 5+ years in FP&A or related fields, and fluency in reading Financial Forecaster models, with strong judgment to flag plausible but incorrect answers and refine prompts to improve realism.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on use of Financial Forecaster for forecasting, covenant, or reporting.
• 5+ years in FP&A, financial reporting, or lender reporting.
• Ability to read a Financial Forecaster model on sight.
• Strong judgment to identify plausible but incorrect answers.

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.
• Improve realism by refining task prompts to reflect authentic FP&A work.
• Update grading guidance to ensure correct answers pass and wrong ones fail, including gating failures.
• Catch plausible-but-wrong answers that a non-expert reviewer might miss and ensure consistency.

Skills

Financial Forecaster use

FP&A experience

Model reading

Scenario and import mechanics

Judgment & QA

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.

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