Mercor
Excel Expert — Finance
$70–$100 / hourRemote · US
We're seeking advanced Excel experts with deep, hands-on experience in finance — professionals who live in spreadsheets, building financial models and analyses at a senior, professional level.
Join a leading technology company's GenAI initiative and put your financial-modeling expertise at the core of how the next generation of AI models learns to work in Excel.
1. Overview
We're seeking advanced Excel experts with deep, hands-on experience in finance — professionals who live in spreadsheets, building financial models and analyses at a senior, professional level. Your expertise will directly elevate the quality of the training data behind the most advanced Large Language Models.
This role is for finance professionals who apply advanced Excel — three-statement modeling, valuation, forecasting, and data analysis — in domains such as private equity, investment banking, hedge funds, and equity research (accounting / FP&A also welcome).
This is a W-2 employment position with Cincinnatus LLC, with the opportunity to be placed at a leading technology company as part of their extended workforce.
2. Key Responsibilities
- Guide research teams to close knowledge gaps and improve AI model performance on Excel-based tasks within finance.
- Design realistic, domain-relevant Excel tasks drawn from your professional experience, and write accurate, well-structured solutions.
- Evaluate Excel tasks and solutions and provide clear, written feedback.
- Collaborate with other subject matter experts to ensure consistency and accuracy in training data.
3. Core Qualifications
- Demonstrated advanced, professional-level Excel expertise, including advanced formulas (e.g., XLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, dynamic arrays), PivotTables, financial modeling, dashboards, Power Query, Power Pivot, and macros/VBA.