[Hiring] Financial Planning & Analysis Professional @Lightly AG

Role Description

Lightly AG is looking for experienced Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) professionals with strong financial modeling and analytical backgrounds to support an advanced AI evaluation project. This is a remote, project-based contractor opportunity with flexible working hours.

You'll design realistic financial planning and business decision-making tasks, develop reference solutions, and evaluate AI-generated financial outputs for accuracy, completeness, and practical business relevance.

Tasks

• Design realistic FP&A tasks and business scenarios that reflect complex, real-world financial planning, forecasting, and decision-making workflows.
• Develop financial models and reference solutions using Excel, including traceable formulas, documented assumptions, scenario analysis, and consistency checks.
• Create tasks involving core FP&A processes, such as annual budgeting, rolling forecasts, variance analysis, headcount planning, and investment decisions.
• Build and evaluate integrated financial analyses, incorporating income statements, balance sheets, cash flow forecasts, working capital, and liquidity considerations.
• Develop scenarios involving multiple sources of financial and business information, including spreadsheets, contracts, emails, and management presentations.
• Evaluate AI-generated financial models, analyses, and recommendations for technical accuracy, financial consistency, completeness, and sound business judgment.
• Identify material errors, unsupported assumptions, inconsistencies, and weaknesses in financial models or conclusions.
• Define clear evaluation criteria and acceptable outcomes, accounting for valid alternative financial approaches and reasonable assumptions.
• Write precise task instructions, reference answers, and concise executive-level explanations that accurately reflect the underlying financial analysis.
• Apply structured evaluation guidelines consistently, providing clear, evidence-based rationales for your assessments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience in Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), corporate finance, finance business partnering, or a closely related field, or equivalent demonstrated expertise.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills, including building, reviewing, and auditing complex financial models with transparent formulas and well-documented assumptions.
• Hands-on experience owning or supporting financial planning processes, including operating budgets, rolling forecasts, variance analysis, headcount planning, and investment evaluations.
• Strong understanding of financial statements and accounting principles, including the income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, working capital, liquidity, and debt covenants.
• Comfortable building scenario-based financial models, evaluating different business assumptions, and assessing their impact on financial performance.
• Ability to independently reconcile complex or conflicting financial information across spreadsheets, contracts, business documents, and management reports.
• Strong analytical judgment and ability to identify material financial errors, flawed assumptions, inconsistencies, and unsupported conclusions.
• Capability to assess the quality and correctness of financial analyses, including recognizing valid alternative methodologies and defining clear acceptance criteria.
• Excellent written English communication skills and ability to produce precise instructions, structured financial explanations, and concise executive memos.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to consistently apply detailed evaluation guidelines while exercising independent professional judgment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in software, technology, or SaaS businesses, including ARR, retention, gross margin analysis, and subscription-based financial planning.
• Experience with financial model auditing, quality assurance, or reviewing financial deliverables prepared by others.
• Previous exposure to AI evaluation, benchmark development, or designing structured analytical assessments.
• Experience presenting financial analyses and recommendations to senior management or executive stakeholders.

Benefits

• $400 USD per accepted task, with an estimated completion time of 5–6 hours.
• Fully remote and flexible — work from anywhere.
• Part-time contractor role with flexible hours.
• Work on the evaluation of cutting-edge AI systems tackling complex financial and business decision-making tasks.

Company Description

Lightly AG is a Zurich-based AI company and ETH/HSG spin-off, backed by Y Combinator and top-tier investors. We're funded by YCombinator and top investors.