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FinanceRemote, United StatesProject-based

Finance, Accounting & Economics Expert

For finance professionals and economists who can find the number a convincing model gets wrong.

What you would do

  • Build models and problems where one wrong assumption changes the answer, such as a DCF with the wrong tax rate, with reference solutions.
  • Review model work on valuation, reconciliation, pricing and economic reasoning, and show the corrected number.
  • Write accounting tasks, such as a revenue-recognition or lease question, checked against the standard.
  • Write market and pricing problems, such as an option price or a bond’s duration, with checkable answers.
  • Write rubrics that check the numbers, the method and the assumptions.

What we look for

The minimum

  • You study at or graduated from a college or university in finance, accounting, economics or a quantitative field.
  • A model, analysis or valuation you built yourself and can explain in depth.
  • Strong spreadsheet skills: you can rebuild a model from scratch and find where it breaks.
  • Care with assumptions, timing and units.

Ideal

  • A degree in the field; a master’s, PhD, CFA or CPA is even better.
  • Analyst, audit, trading, actuarial or research work, especially at an AI lab or AI company.
  • Coding for analysis, such as Python, R or SQL.
  • Published research or work others relied on for real decisions.

How the work runs

Task size
Tasks take about 30 minutes to 5 hours. Each one shows its estimated time and price before you start, and you are paid that price even if it takes you more or less time.
Pay
Per task accepted in review: its estimated time times the project’s rate. A task estimated at 2 hours at $150 an hour pays $300. Accepted tasks are paid within 30 days.
Hours
Projects last 1 month to a year. Each sets a weekly minimum, usually about 20 hours of estimated work, and you choose when you work.
Tools and review
Your own computer, a spreadsheet, and Python or R when a task calls for them. Every task is reviewed against the project’s written quality standard before it is accepted.

This position covers

  • Valuation and corporate finance
  • Markets and trading
  • Quantitative finance
  • Accounting and audit
  • Insurance and claims
  • Economics and econometrics

IsoData provides equal opportunity to all applicants. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status or any other protected trait. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.