Director, Finance - Real Estate Finance
Owns financial due diligence, commercial structuring, and lifecycle management for land and real-estate transactions supporting data-center campuses. Requires 8+ years in real-estate finance, land acquisition, project finance, or corporate development, plus strong modeling and cross-functional negotiation skills.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead financial due diligence for land acquisitions, ground leases, and site-control agreements, evaluating cost basis, tax implications, entitlement risk, and site-level economics.
- Partner with Legal, Real Estate, Power, Development, HR, and international-strategy teams to assess title, easements, zoning, utility access, environmental factors, and deal viability.
- Build site-level financial models covering acquisition costs, ground-lease economics, property taxes, incentives, and abatements to support total-cost-of-ownership investment decisions.
- Advise on and support negotiation of land purchase agreements, ground leases, option agreements, and related real-estate instruments.
- Structure transactions for financeability and partner with capital markets and project-finance teams on debt sizing, credit packages, and investor requirements.
- Support negotiation of economic-development incentives, tax abatements, and PILOT agreements.
- Track land and real-estate assets from acquisition through construction, operations, disposition, or refinancing.
- Maintain portfolio-level records of land and lease obligations, including payment schedules, escalators, renewal options, and purchase options.
- Partner with Accounting on land, lease, and capital-cost treatment, including ASC 842.
- Provide analysis and materials for board, investor, and lender due diligence.
- Build scalable processes and tools as the land portfolio expands.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in real-estate finance, land acquisition, project finance, or corporate development; experience in data centers, energy, industrial, or infrastructure is preferred.
- Experience leading financial due diligence for land or real-estate transactions, including acquisition and lease-economics modeling.
- Working knowledge of ground leases, purchase options, easements, and economic-development incentives such as tax abatements and PILOTs.
- Understanding of how land and real-estate structures affect project financing, debt sizing, financeability, and credit requirements.
- Strong financial modeling and analytical skills, including the ability to build models from scratch under time pressure.
- Experience managing assets over a multi-year lifecycle.
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration and negotiation skills.
- Bachelor's degree required.
Nice-to-haves
- MBA, JD, or equivalent.
- Experience in data centers, energy, industrial, or infrastructure sectors.
Compensation and Benefits
- Compensation range: $235,000–$275,000 plus bonus.
- Restricted Stock Units included in all offers.
- Paid time off, paid holidays, and leave programs.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance; employer HSA contributions.
- Paid parental leave, life insurance, disability coverage, and 401(k) matching up to 4% of salary.
- Professional development and tuition reimbursement, mental-health support, commuter benefits, cell-phone stipend, volunteer time off, travel insurance, and daily meal allowance.
Skills
Financial Modeling, Real Estate Finance, Land Acquisition, Ground Leases, Project Finance, Corporate Development, Due Diligence, Debt Sizing, Capital Markets, Asc 842, Tax Abatements, Pilot Agreements, Easements, Lease Accounting
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