$60–180/hr · Mercor · Part time, 40 hours a week
Contribute financial expertise to AI training by authoring, grading, and evaluating model performance on accounting and finance tasks.
What you would do
- Develop realistic financial scenarios based on professional experience with documented assumptions
- Assess whether model answers demonstrate correct accounting treatment and reasonable estimates
- Identify outputs that appear correct but violate disclosure or audit requirements
- Provide detailed feedback on model financial reasoning
Who they want
- Professional background in finance, accounting, investment banking, or asset management
- Ability to explain financial reasoning in clear, structured writing
- Comfort working with ambiguous tasks and flagging unclear specifications
- Self-directed approach with minimal ongoing hand-holding
Main skills
What the interview asks about
1.Spotting subtle accounting errors
Your ability to catch mistakes automated systems miss determines training data quality.
For example: “A model capitalizes costs as inventory when facts suggest expense recognition. Evaluate whether this treatment could be defensible.”
2.Valuation assumption credibility
Reasonable numbers with wrong logic fail; you assess the reasoning structure.
For example: “A model values a business at 12x EBITDA citing growth comparables. Challenge the assumptions and explain what benchmarks matter.”
3.Regulatory disclosure judgment
Model outputs must withstand audit scrutiny; you know actual requirements.
For example: “A model omits disclosing a warranty liability estimated at 0.5% of revenue. Evaluate whether the omission is defensible.”
4.Writing problems from experience
Your credibility depends on translating real scenarios into structured problems.
For example: “Describe a decision from your role with genuine ambiguity in treatment and turn it into a scenario for evaluation.”
A task you may get
Write one realistic problem from your experience with reference answer; grade a model attempt and explain differences.
How to prepare
- Select 3-4 complex financial scenarios from your career with documented assumptions
- Review accounting standards where judgment matters most
- Prepare to explain a time you disagreed with a treatment and how you resolved it
- Think about where models might be plausible but technically wrong
The facts
- Pay
- $60–180/hr
- Hours
- Part time, 40 hours a week
- Where
- Remote
- Field
- Finance
- Role type
- Talent network
- Posted
- 9/15/2026
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