What the work involves

You receive finance-adjacent artifacts — three-statement models, budget variance analyses, board decks, credit memos, close checklists, invoice reconciliations — that were either produced by a model or given to a model as a task. Your job is to say whether the output is correct, whether it would survive a controller's or an IC's review, and where exactly it breaks. That means tracing formula logic in a workbook, checking whether a revenue recognition treatment matches the fact pattern, flagging a deck that states a conclusion the underlying numbers don't support, and writing the whole thing up in a few hundred words that another reviewer could act on without opening the file themselves.

Some projects ask for comparison judgments — two model responses side by side, pick the better one and justify it against a rubric. Others ask you to author reference tasks: write a realistic FP&A or accounting prompt, produce the gold-standard answer, and document the reasoning. Both reward people who can be specific about why something is wrong rather than that it feels off.

What the screen actually looks for

  • Verifiable domain history. Where you worked, what you owned, what the numbers looked like. Vague "business ops" framing without a concrete function tends not to survive follow-up.
  • Working fluency in Excel beyond formatting. Expect to be asked how you'd audit a model you didn't build, or what you check first in an unfamiliar workbook.
  • Rubric discipline. Whether you can apply someone else's grading criteria instead of substituting your own house style. This is the most common failure among strong practitioners.
  • Written output under constraint. Short, structured, defensible feedback — not narrative commentary.

Logistics

Fully remote and asynchronous; you claim tasks from a queue and work when you want. Most contributors run 10–20 hours a week, though volume swings with project cycles and there is no guaranteed floor. Onboarding usually includes a paid or unpaid calibration set before live tasks unlock. Eligibility is restricted to contributors based in the United States, Europe, the UK, or Canada, and you'll need a machine with a real Microsoft Office install — several projects hand you .xlsx and .pptx files that don't render faithfully elsewhere.