Remote Data Center Capital Finance Lead

Evolving Solution Services; Columbia (SC); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

DartPoints is seeking a Capital Projects Financial Lead to own the financial analysis, budgeting, and cost-to-complete for its data center portfolio. This remote US role partners with Construction Management, Development/Expansion, and Procurement to keep projects on budget and to forecast capex, draw schedules, and risk across a growing portfolio.

The ideal candidate brings at least five years in financial planning for capital projects, experience with ERP and job-costing tools, and a strong

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, or a similar analytically oriented discipline.
• 3+ years of relevant professional experience, including direct exposure to capital projects or construction financials
• Forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and data-grounded interpretation of results
• Experience building and maintaining capital project budgets, tracking budget-vs-actual, and cost-to-complete / ETC/EAC analysis
• Experience leading project financial reviews with cross-functional teams (construction, development, procurement, operations)
• Experience with financial planning software (Cube, Planful, or Hyperion Essbase)
• Proficiency in Excel (macros, index-match, arrays, pivots, lookups, conditional logic)

Responsibilities

• Lead financial support for capital projects; building and maintaining project budgets, capex forecasts, and cost-to-complete models across the portfolio
• Track budget-vs-actual and forecast variances at the project and portfolio level, investigating and explaining drivers
• Own capitalized labor tracking for capital projects; ensuring accurate identification, allocation, and capitalization of employee labor costs
• Partner with Construction Management to link cost forecasts to schedules and milestones
• Support the capital approval process (AFEs / capital requests) and monitor change orders and their financial impact
• Maintain construction draw schedules and funding forecasts, coordinating with Accounting and Treasury on capitalized costs, capitalized interest, CIP
• Build development pro formas and project-level return analysis to support underwriting of new sites and expansions
• Partner with operations and project teams to ensure compliance with accounting policies and budget requirements
• Support recurring portfolio and project reviews and present ad hoc analyses and recommendations to leadership

Skills

Financial analysis

Budgeting

Capital project accounting

ERP experience

SQL / data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or similar

Tools

Sage

NetSuite

Planful

Hyperion Essbase

Job description

DartPoints is seeking a Capital Projects Financial Lead to own the financial analysis, budgeting, and cost-to-complete for its data center portfolio. This remote US role partners with Construction Management, Development/Expansion, and Procurement to keep projects on budget and to forecast capex, draw schedules, and risk across a growing portfolio.

The ideal candidate brings at least five years in financial planning for capital projects, experience with ERP and job-costing tools, and a strong