Excel Expert - Finance

This role is for one of our clients

Compensation: $70 - $100 per hour

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).

Requirements

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.

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.

• Hands-on professional experience applying Excel within a finance domain — private equity, investment banking, hedge funds, or equity research (accounting / FP&A also considered), including work such as three-statement models, LBO/DCF and valuation, and forecasting.

• Demonstrable career progression in your field.

• Prior experience in AI training, human data annotation, or model evaluation — ideally Rubrics-trained on Mercor or a comparable platform — is a strong plus.

• Ability to engage reliably for 40 hours/week during weekdays through the end of September, then 20 hours/week thereafter.

• Verbal and written communication skills, problem-solving skills, and interpersonal skills.

• United States–based only.