FP&A Expert

About this role

**Mercor is recruiting UK-based FP&A Experts for a research project with a leading frontier AI lab.** We are seeking experienced finance professionals with 6+ years in **FP&A, strategic finance, or finance business partnering**. Strong candidates have directly owned a P&L, an annual budget, a rolling forecast, and a monthly variance process, and can translate accounting actuals into operational decisions on spending, headcount, and growth. **Ideal candidates have experience at one or more of the following types of business:** - Digital media and advertising - Entertainment - Subscription or membership businesses - Live events - Multi-location consumer businesses - Or another commercially complex business with a substantial FP&A function **Ideal candidates have experience with one or more of the following:** - P&L ownership and management reporting - Annual budgeting and departmental budget consolidation - Rolling forecasts and Income Statement projections - Monthly variance analysis and budget-to-actual reporting - Committed-expense analysis and cost control - Forecast assumption setting and scenario stress-testing You'll help create, review, and evaluate high-quality financial planning scenarios, leveraging your experience in FP&A, budgeting, and management reporting. Strong candidates are comfortable explaining financial tradeoffs to non-finance stakeholders and turning a variance into a clear recommendation on what to do next. Here are more details about the role: - You will be contributing high-quality training data for frontier AI systems - This is a full-time engagement running from 10 August 2026 to 4 September 2026 - The project team collaborates on a UK business-hours rhythm, with live team sessions each working day and occasional evening messages - The project pays two weeks of garden leave at the end of the engagement, with a one month non-compete running concurrently - Successful contributions increase the likelihood of being selected for future Mercor projects **The vetting process involves:** - Resume and work history screen - Short interview evaluating FP&A and management reporting expertise **Please note:** Candidates **must be based in the United Kingdom and have the right to work in the United Kingdom**.

Eligible applicant countries

This role accepts applicants from:

• GBR

Skills & domains

• ai-training
• rlhf
• sme
• annotation
• Finance