Senior Financial Analyst

Job Description

This role focuses on evaluating and improving AI-generated content across a wide range of finance and accounting topics. You will apply deep finance expertise to validate responses, design realistic business scenarios, and provide detailed feedback that enhances the accuracy, reliability, and professional quality of AI systems used by finance and accounting professionals. This is a project-based opportunity to leverage your financial background in an emerging field that is transforming how businesses make decisions.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and validate AI-generated content across diverse finance and accounting topics to ensure accuracy, relevance, and professional quality.
• Review, compare, and score AI model responses to support the ongoing development, refinement, and benchmarking of AI systems.
• Develop high-quality, subject matter expert explanations and solutions to finance-related scenarios for training and evaluation purposes.
• Identify inaccuracies, questionable assumptions, or incomplete recommendations in AI outputs and provide detailed, constructive feedback to improve quality.
• Design realistic, real-world finance use cases based on professional experience, including business scenarios, supporting datasets, source materials, and objective evaluation criteria.
• Test AI performance against custom finance scenarios, analyze results, and refine tasks based on quality reviews and stakeholder feedback.
• Follow established project guidelines, documentation standards, and submission procedures with strong attention to detail and consistency.
• Deliver accurate, high-quality work while maintaining productivity and meeting project timelines throughout the engagement.
• Present financial concepts, analyses, and recommendations in a clear, concise, and professional written format.
• Independently manage workload, priorities, and deadlines in a fully remote, project-based environment.
• Use modern workplace technology, including cloud-based collaboration platforms, online document management tools, and file-sharing workflows, to complete and submit work.
• Apply analytical thinking and sound financial judgment to evaluate information and apply real-world finance expertise to complex scenarios.

Essential Skills

• At least 7 years of finance experience in corporate finance or investment finance.
• Professional experience in disciplines such as corporate finance, investment analysis, financial planning and analysis (FP&A), valuation, treasury, accounting, capital markets, or banking.
• Strong knowledge of finance functions, finance management, finance analysis, and finance reporting.
• Experience in financial planning and analysis, including budgeting and forecasting.
• Hands-on experience performing finance-related responsibilities as an individual contributor, rather than solely in a leadership or oversight role.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• Excellent written communication skills with the ability to present financial concepts, analyses, and recommendations clearly and concisely.
• Demonstrated analytical thinking and sound financial judgment when evaluating complex financial scenarios.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to follow documented processes, interpret written guidance, and incorporate feedback through multiple review cycles.
• Ability to work effectively in a fully remote environment while independently managing workload, priorities, and deadlines.
• Comfort using modern workplace technology, including cloud-based collaboration platforms, online document management tools, software applications, and common file-sharing workflows.
• Availability to support a project-based engagement requiring approximately 30 to 40 hours per week over a 12-week period.
• Residence within the United States.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a relevant field is preferred.
• Experience in credit analysis and credit risk assessment.
• background in investment banking, investment analysis, investment planning, or investment management.
• Experience working with forecasting models and financial planning tools.
• General familiarity with artificial intelligence technologies, including large language models (LLMs) and their business applications.
• Understanding of the broader AI and LLM landscape and its relevance to finance and accounting use cases.
• Interest in contributing to the development of AI tools used in corporate finance, FP&A, investment analysis, accounting, and business decision-making.
• Ability to design realistic finance and accounting scenarios, including supporting datasets and evaluation criteria, based on professional experience.

Work Environment

This role offers a 100% remote work environment, allowing you to contribute from anywhere within the United States. The engagement is project-based, requiring approximately 30 to 40 hours per week over a 12-week period, with the potential to extend based on project needs. You will work flexible hours, coordinating deliverables and timelines within a distributed team setting. The role relies heavily on modern workplace technology, including cloud-based collaboration platforms, online document management tools, and common file-sharing workflows. You will operate in a professional, results-oriented environment that emphasizes accuracy, quality, and adherence to established guidelines while providing the autonomy to manage your own schedule and workload

This is a Contract position based out of New York, NY.

The pay range for this position is $125.00 - $125.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

This is a fully remote position.

This position is anticipated to close on Sep 8, 2026.

About Aston Carter

Aston Carter provides world-class corporate talent solutions to thousands of clients across the globe. Specialized in accounting, finance, human resources, talent acquisition, procurement, supply chain and select administrative professions, we extend the capabilities of industry-leading companies. We draw on our deep recruiting expertise and expansive network to meet the evolving needs of our clients and talent community with agility and excellence. With offices across the U.S., Canada, Asia Pacific and Europe, Aston Carter serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® Platinum Award winner for both client and talent service.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email astoncarteraccommodation@astoncarter.com for other accommodation options.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Massachusetts Lie Detector: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.