Head of FP&A

Big Watt Digital, LLC; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 400,000 - 425,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Cash bonus

Incentive Award Units

Job summary

Big Watt Digital in Seattle seeks a senior FP&A leader to shape the financial narrative for a capital-intensive AI infrastructure business. You will own the integrated financial view across customers, power, development, construction, financing and operations.

You will build frameworks for deploying billions in capital, evaluate credit, power economics, financing and strategic value, and translate complex project economics into clear decisions for the CEO, CFO and Board.

Qualifications

• Master's degree or MBA.
• 15+ years of progressive FP&A, corporate finance, or related experience.
• Curiosity and capability to build an AI native organization.
• Experience with finance tools (Adaptive, Anaplan, Pigment, Looker, Tableau).
• Strong understanding of GAAP and how accounting results drive financial reporting.
• Experience presenting to senior executives and boards.
• Experience in a high-growth or private equity or venture-backed environment.
• Experience supporting fundraising, M&A, or IPO readiness.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated financial view of the company across customers, power, development, construction, financing and operations.
• Shape the narrative used by the CEO, CFO and Board: where value is being created, what is changing, where risk is emerging and what decisions matter most.
• Translate a portfolio of complex infrastructure investments into clear implications for returns, cash, capital requirements and enterprise value.
• Build frameworks for deciding where, when and how to deploy billions of dollars of capital across opportunities.
• Evaluate customer credit, power economics, construction risk, financing, capital intensity, COD timing and strategic value.
• Bring rigor without bureaucracy and know when a quick 80% answer is better than a perfect 95% answer.

Skills

FP&A leadership

Executive communication

Strategic planning

Financial modeling

Education

Master's degree or MBA

Tools

Adaptive

Anaplan

Pigment

Looker

Tableau

Job description

This is not a traditional FP&A role. We are building at the intersection of AI infrastructure and energy, where individual decisions can involve billions of dollars and the underlying market is changing in real time every day. We are looking for a leader who combines hyperscaler-grade financial judgment with a startup mentality — someone who knows what world-class looks like at scale, but is equally comfortable building the first version, operating with incomplete information, moving quickly and continuously improving the answer. The value of FP&A here is not forecast precision. It is judgment: identifying what matters, framing the right trade-offs and helping leadership make better decisions about capital, risk and growth.

Big Watt Digital is a mission-critical infrastructure platform developing and operating next-generation, high-density data center campuses built for the demands of AI and advanced digital workloads. Our model brings together large-scale power, digital infrastructure, development execution, and operational discipline to deliver speed, certainty, and scalability.

WHY BIG WATT DIGITAL

We are building at the intersection of energy, data centers, AI infrastructure, and large-scale development—where execution matters.

Description

WHAT YOU WILL OWN

Shape the Financial Narrative

• Own the integrated financial view of the company, connecting customers, power, development, construction, financing and operations.
• Shape the narrative used by the CEO, CFO and Board: where value is being created, what is changing, where risk is emerging and what decisions matter most.
• Translate a portfolio of complex infrastructure investments into clear implications for returns, cash, capital requirements and enterprise value.

Drive Capital Allocation

• Build the frameworks for deciding where, when and how to deploy billions of dollars of capital across competing opportunities.
• Evaluate customer credit, power economics, construction risk, financing, capital intensity, COD timing and strategic value — not simply IRR.
• Bring rigor without bureaucracy. Know when an 80% answer today is more valuable than a 95% answer weeks from now, and when the magnitude of the decision requires going deeper.

Turn Uncertainty Into Decisions

• Build planning around the reality that customer requirements, project schedules, financing markets, power economics and investment opportunities will continually change.
• Use scenarios and sensitivities to identify what actually drives outcomes and quickly translate changing assumptions into implications for cash, returns, liquidity and enterprise value.
• Make a recommendation with imperfect information, test it against reality and change the answer when the facts change.

Operate Across the CFO Organization

• Be a key partner to Treasury, connecting the operating and project outlook to liquidity, financing requirements, debt capacity and capital structure.
• Partner deeply with Accounting, influencing accounting judgments and policy across complex areas including project and construction accounting, capitalization, leases, revenue, JVs and infrastructure assets. Understand the accounting well enough to anticipate how business decisions will ultimately flow through the financial statements.
• Partner with Investor Relations to translate operating performance, project economics and long-term strategy into a compelling external financial narrative.
• Connect these disciplines rather than allowing FP&A, Accounting, Treasury and IR to operate as separate information streams.

Build the Financial Operating System

• Create integrated project, portfolio, P&L, balance-sheet and cash-flow models that allow leadership to understand the business from individual investments through enterprise-level outcomes.
• Build the planning systems, data architecture and decision frameworks required to support a company operating at substantially greater scale.
• Automate reporting wherever possible. The team's time should be spent interpreting information and influencing decisions, not producing reports.

Build a World-Class Team

• Build and lead an exceptional FP&A organization.
• Hire people with the analytical horsepower, business judgment, and ownership mentality to operate across both detailed project economics and enterprise-level decisions.
• Set a high bar without importing unnecessary large-company process. Create a culture of intellectual honesty, speed, iteration and accountability where Finance is expected to have a point of view.

THE PERSON WHO WILL THRIVE HERE

You have operated at a significant scale, where decisions involving hundreds of millions or billions of dollars are routine, and have developed the judgment that comes from doing so.

But you don't need a large organization or perfect information around you to operate effectively.

You can build from zero, iterate constantly, influence across Finance and the business, hire exceptional people, and move seamlessly from a detailed model to a Board-level conversation about capital allocation and enterprise value.

You know what great looks like at scale. You are excited to build it.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master's degree or MBA
• 15+ years of progressive FP&A, corporate finance, or related experience.
• Curiosity and capability to build an AI native organization
• Experience with finance tools (e.g., Adaptive, Anaplan, Pigment, Looker, Tableau)
• Strong understanding of GAAP and how accounting results drive financial reporting
• Experience presenting to senior executives and boards
• Experience in a high-growth or private equity or venture-backed environment
• Experience supporting fundraising, M&A, or IPO readiness

HOW WE WORK

BUILD Create durable systems, not temporary fixes. | EXECUTE Move with urgency and accountability. | PARTNER Work across disciplines and stakeholders. | SCALE Design for the next campus, not just today.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Salary Range for this position is from $400-$425K. In addition to a competitive salary Big Watt Digital offers:

• Annual Cash bonus
• Incentive Award Units