Senior Excel Engineer — Finance Modeling for GenAI Training

Mercor; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor seeks an advanced Excel expert with deep finance experience to power its GenAI initiative. The role focuses on building and validating finance models and Excel-based tasks to train AI models and improve performance in finance-related tasks.

The candidate will design three-statement models, LBO/DCF valuation, and forecasting work within PE, IB, hedge funds, or equity research. Located in the United States, W-2 with Cincinnatus LLC.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated advanced, professional-level Excel expertise including complex formulas and modeling.
• Experience applying Excel in finance domains (PE, IB, hedge funds, equity research).
• Prior AI training or data annotation experience is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Guide research teams to close knowledge gaps and improve AI model performance on Excel-based tasks in finance.
• Design realistic, domain-relevant Excel tasks and write accurate, structured solutions.
• Evaluate Excel tasks and provide clear written feedback.
• Collaborate with other subject matter experts to ensure training data quality.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Financial modeling

Three-statement models

LBO/DCF valuation

Excel formulas

PivotTables

Power Query

Power Pivot

Macros/VBA

Data analysis

Tools

Excel automation

Job description

Mercor seeks an advanced Excel expert with deep finance experience to power its GenAI initiative. The role focuses on building and validating finance models and Excel-based tasks to train AI models and improve performance in finance-related tasks.

The candidate will design three-statement models, LBO/DCF valuation, and forecasting work within PE, IB, hedge funds, or equity research. Located in the United States, W-2 with Cincinnatus LLC.