FP&A Specialist - Strategic Finance

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
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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
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