Corporate Treasury Expert

$100/hrrate as listed

Mercor is assembling a library of corporate treasury work products, each built from mock source files and graded against a rubric. You'll produce full deliverables — 13-week cash forecasts, FX netting and hedge recommendations, hedge effectiveness documentation, covenant headroom models and treasury policy drafts — as self-contained exercises.

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The work

Each task is a discrete treasury exercise. You receive a mock file set — bank statements, AR/AP aging, an exposure schedule, a credit agreement, an intercompany matrix — and produce the deliverable a treasury team would actually hand to a CFO. In practice that means building a rolling 13-week direct cash forecast with line-level receipts and disbursements plus a written variance explanation; identifying and netting FX exposures across entities and recommending hedges that comply with a stated corporate policy; drafting hedge designation memos with periodic effectiveness testing; analyzing working capital (DSO/DPO/DIO), bank fee-to-service alignment, trapped cash and repatriation paths; forecasting leverage and covenant headroom against real covenant definitions; and drafting or refreshing policy language on liquidity, FX, counterparty limits and permitted investments.

The deliverable is the output, not a chat transcript. Work is graded against a rubric, so reasoning that is traceable to the source files matters as much as the final number. Expect to state assumptions explicitly and show where a figure came from.

What the screen looks for

Operating-company treasury depth. Four or more years in a corporate treasury function — not banking ALM, not FTP, not regulatory liquidity reporting. The scope note is enforced.
Hands-on mechanics. Whether you have personally built a direct cash forecast, executed or documented a hedge, or run a bank fee analysis, versus reviewed someone else's.
Judgment under ambiguity. Mock files are incomplete on purpose. The screen probes how you handle missing data, conflicting balances and covenant definitions that don't match your GAAP figures.
Written clarity. Variance explanations and policy language are graded on precision, not volume.

CTP, ACT/AMCT/MCT, or hands-on TMS experience (Kyriba, GTreasury, FIS, SAP TRM) strengthens a profile but isn't required.

Logistics

Fully remote and asynchronous, project-based rather than shift-based. Pay is observed around $2,000 per task at the time of listing — not guaranteed, and Mercor sets rates by exercise scope and reviewer calibration. Most contributors treat this as a few concentrated sessions per deliverable alongside a full-time role; volume depends on how many exercise types you qualify for and how your first submissions score.

What they look for

4+ years in corporate treasury at an operating company
Direct cash forecasting (13-week rolling, receipts and disbursements)
FX exposure identification, netting and hedge design against policy
Covenant compliance and leverage headroom modeling
Hedge accounting designation and effectiveness testing documentation
CTP, ACT/AMCT/MCT, or treasury management system experience

Before you apply

Would you pass this screen?

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Do you have at least 4 years of hands-on experience in a corporate treasury role at an operating company?
Corporate treasury experience · required
Have you built or managed cash forecasts, or managed bank relationships and day-to-day liquidity at an operating company?
Cash forecasting or liquidity management · required
Have you identified FX exposures, structured or recommended hedges, or managed interest-rate or commodity risk in a corporate role?
Hedging or FX exposure management · preferred
Do you hold or have you completed the requirements for Certified Treasury Professional (CTP), ACT, AMCT, or MCT?
Treasury certification (CTP, ACT, AMCT, or MCT) · preferred

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Included with this listing

Interview prep — 12 questions

Matched to what this platform's screening actually measures. Answer each out loud in 60–90 seconds: claim → concrete example → implication.

What it tests: Whether candidate understands the mechanics of daily cash timing (collection lags, settlement cycles, float) and builds forecasts with enough granularity to catch seasonal or cyclical dips before they hit covenant thresholds.
A strong answer: A strong answer identifies that you segment receipts by collection pattern (early pay, on-time, late), model payroll and capex cycles separately, and stress test against worst-case collection timing and customer defaults—not just average historical data.
Where people lose it: Candidates often model cash as a simple running total of balance sheet changes rather than granular daily or weekly flows by type, or they assume constant collection rates without accounting for customer concentration or payment term seasonality.