Data Center Forecasting Manager

Fluidstack; New York (NY); On-site; USD 176,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Fluidstack is seeking a finance-focused forecasting specialist in New York to build and maintain site-level capex and opex forecasts, manage the monthly forecast cycle, and model scenarios quickly when deals or design changes move numbers.

You will automate the pipeline from source systems so forecasts update in hours, not weeks, and ensure models are auditable with cited sources and labeled assumptions. Strong Excel and SQL skills are essential for success in this fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• You’ve built capex and opex forecasts for large projects or infrastructure portfolios.
• Your variance analysis finds causes, not just differences.
• You’re expert in Excel and dangerous in SQL.
• You turn a vague what‑if into a modeled answer same‑day.
• Your models are auditable: sources cited, assumptions labeled.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the site-level forecasts: capex curves, opex ramps, and cash timing per building.
• Own the monthly forecast cycle: inputs gathered, variances explained, and the bridge to the last version clean.
• Model scenarios fast when a deal, delay, or design change moves the numbers.
• Automate the pipeline from source systems so the forecast updates in hours, not weeks.

Skills

Excel

SQL

Variance analysis

Forecasting capex/opex

What-if modeling

Tools

SQL

Job description

About Fluidstack

We exist to make humanity more free. For most of human history, you farmed or you starved. Technology gave people more time for the things they wanted to do, instead of things they had to do. Powerful AI will be the biggest lever for human choice we’ve ever built - but only if models are aligned with what humanity actually wants. There are groups building AI who don’t share these goals. Whoever deploys frontier compute infrastructure fastest will decide whether AI expands human freedom or shrinks it. We are singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them — with teams spanning hardware and software. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. Come be a part of building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI.

How We Operate

• Extreme ownership. Full autonomy. Own things end to end often taking on scope outside your core role without being asked to get things done.
• Velocity. We drive everything forward as fast as possible.
• First principles. Challenge every assumption. Zero analogy thinking, no egos, the best idea wins.
• Love of the game. The frontier of AI is the most interesting problem of our time. We put in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward.

Role Scope

• Build and maintain the site-level forecasts: capex curves, opex ramps, and cash timing per building.
• Own the monthly forecast cycle: inputs gathered, variances explained, and the bridge to the last version clean.
• Model scenarios fast when a deal, delay, or design change moves the numbers.
• Automate the pipeline from source systems so the forecast updates in hours, not weeks.

What We’re Looking For

• The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don’t fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.
• You’ve built capex and opex forecasts for large projects or infrastructure portfolios.
• Your variance analysis finds causes, not just differences.
• You’re expert in Excel and dangerous in SQL.
• You turn a vague what‑if into a modeled answer same‑day.
• Your models are auditable: sources cited, assumptions labeled.
• Bonus: Construction draw schedules. Pigment or Anaplan. Power cost modeling. Accounting fluency.

Compensation Range: $176K - $224K

Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.