$70/hr
The role in one line
Build and assess financial deliverables from messy source data, demonstrating professional-grade accounting work.
Written by Training Turk from the public listing; it may be incomplete or out of date. Read the full posting on Mercor.
What you would do
- Reconcile competing financial views (trader marks vs. accounting records, commission treatments, month-end adjustments)
- Construct integrated three-statement and pro-forma models incorporating purchase accounting impacts and deferred items
- Analyze covenant compliance, cash constraints, and control structures across payables and procurement
- Evaluate partnership and professional-services allocations, including profit-pool waterfalls and capital account mechanics
- Author clear narratives explaining assumptions, variances, findings, and recommendations
Who they are looking for
- 3+ years building financial models and managing accounting in corporate, FP&A, or controls environments
- CPA, CA, ACA, ACCA, or CIMA credential (or equivalent qualification)
- Expert-level facility with US GAAP and IFRS, especially purchase accounting (ASC 805) and revenue (ASC 606)
- Advanced Excel skills: multi-sheet models, linked statements, reconciliation structures, data lookups
- Comfort making defensible judgments when source data is incomplete or deliberately confusing
Skills this role asks for
What the interview is likely to probe
1.Reconciliation under conflicting sources
Real accounting work involves bridging views that don't match; your method for finding the truth matters as much as your technical knowledge.
Expect something like: “Trader P&L shows 30M profit, accounting 28M. Differences in commission and mark-to-market treatment. How would you audit this gap?”
2.Purchase accounting complexity
Acquisition accounting under ASC 805 involves material estimates that shape financial statements; getting these wrong misleads stakeholders.
Expect something like: “Deferred revenue on target must be remeasured at fair value post-acquisition. How do you model this and brief the CFO on risk?”
3.Revenue and cost allocation logic
Partnership and service allocation models often hide embedded assumptions that only show up under stress or change.
Expect something like: “Mid-year new partner with different capital contribution joins waterfall profit structure. How do you rebuild the model fairly?”
4.Judgment under ambiguity
You won't always have perfect data; how you handle gaps and make reasonable assumptions signals your reliability.
Expect something like: “Covenant test pending but vendor payment terms not finalized. How do you model uncertainty and brief leadership?”
Exercise you may get
You receive a trial balance, a purchase agreement, a trader's P&L summary, and vendor invoices. Build a reconciliation schedule and a three-statement projection, then write a narrative explaining what you found and what you'd recommend to leadership.
How to prepare
- Work through 2-3 realistic accounting scenarios using real-world documents (or proxy documents) and time yourself on model construction
- Study ASC 805 (business combinations) and ASC 606 (revenue) focusing on common real-world applications and pitfalls
- Build a complex Excel model with multiple linked sheets, reconciliations, and variance analysis; practice explaining it clearly
- Review partnership and profit-allocation scenarios; understand waterfall logic and when allocations create disputes
Facts
- Pay
- $70/hr
- Commitment
- hourly
- Work arrangement
- remote · Remote
- Posted
- 9/16/2026