Financial Planning Analyst Expert

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$70/hr
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From the Ethos listing, checked Nov 4.
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Ethos's AI interviewer asks about your career, then matches you to projects like Financial Planning Analyst. Keep your CV open and cover these:
3+ years in FP&A, business finance, or commercial finance at a significant company
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3+ years in FP&A, business finance, or commercial finance at a significant company
Strong expertise in financial charting, bridges/waterfalls, and reporting packs
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Strong expertise in financial charting, bridges/waterfalls, and reporting packs
Expert-level PowerPoint and slide craftsmanship, with excellent written communication and attention
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Expert-level PowerPoint and slide craftsmanship, with excellent written communication and attention
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About This Opportunity
We're working with a leading foundational AI lab to find experienced financial planning analysts who can help train their latest language model on professional presentation and slide deck tasks.
We're looking for financial planning analysts with 3+ years in FP&A or business finance building the decks behind the numbers to create, evaluate, and refine AI-generated presentations and slide decks across core workflows: monthly reporting slides, bridge and waterfall charts, headcount and opex exhibits, scenario analysis pages, and commentary drafting for finance reviews.

Compensation

$70/hour
Commitment:
Flexible, 5-20 hours per week (or more if desired)
Location:
Fully remote, work on your own schedule
Start date:
ASAP

Qualifications

3+ years in FP&A, business finance, or commercial finance at a significant company
Strong expertise in financial charting, bridges/waterfalls, and reporting packs
Expert-level PowerPoint and slide craftsmanship, with excellent written communication and attention to detail
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Prepare for the Ethos call
Ethos's AI interviewer asks about your Financial Analyst background. These are our own practice questions for that work, not Ethos's.
What key assumptions do you stress-test first when reviewing a financial model built by someone else?
I focus on revenue growth rate and margin assumptions first, since small changes there tend to have the largest effect on the output, and I check whether the assumptions are grounded in historical data or market comparables versus being arbitrarily chosen. I also verify the formulas are consistent across periods rather than hardcoded in some cells.
How do you approach valuing a company that has volatile or negative near-term earnings?
I lean more heavily on a discounted cash flow approach with normalized long-term assumptions rather than trailing earnings multiples, since near-term volatility distorts multiple-based valuation. I also look at comparable companies with similar business models to sanity check the output rather than relying on a single method.
What's your process for evaluating the risk of a proposed investment beyond just expected return?
I look at the range of outcomes under different scenarios, not just the base case, and consider correlation with other holdings, since an investment can look attractive in isolation but add concentrated risk to a broader portfolio. Downside scenarios matter as much as the upside case for decision-making.
How do you decide which sensitivity variables to include in a financial model's scenario analysis?
I prioritize variables that both have high uncertainty and high impact on the output, rather than testing every input equally. Running sensitivity on a variable that barely moves the result wastes review time and can obscure the assumptions that actually matter to the decision.
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No. When your profile is live, Ethos matches you to new projects from your career history, so companies find you. Each finished project raises your Expert Score, which brings you better-paid work.
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How many hours a week is this Financial Planning Analyst work?
Between 5 and 20 hours a week. At $70/hr that is $350 to $1,400 a week. You set your own hours.
What experience does this Financial Planning Analyst listing ask for?
The listing asks for 3+ years in FP&A, business finance, or commercial finance at a significant company; strong expertise in financial charting, bridges/waterfalls, and reporting packs; and expert-level PowerPoint and slide craftsmanship, with excellent written communication and attention to detail. Ethos's interviewer builds your profile from your CV, so have the roles that show this ready to talk through.
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