# Strategic Finance Associates

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Salary:** $176k – $209k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Financial Modeling, project finance, capital raises, m&a analysis, Forecasting, scenario analysis, Python, SQL
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Build and own financial models for multi-billion-dollar AI data center projects, support capital raises, partner on deal pricing and economics, and deliver recommendations to CEO/CFO on capital deployment. Requires building models from scratch used for investment decisions, experience in capital raises or project finance, and moving fast in ambiguous environments.

## Job Description

## Role Scope
- Build and own the financial models behind multi-billion-dollar data center projects, from unit economics per megawatt to full project finance and returns analysis.
- Support capital raises across equity and project debt by preparing the models, materials, and diligence responses lenders and investors require to underwrite gigawatt-scale builds.
- Partner with the commercial and development teams to price deals, stress-test assumptions, and pressure-check the economics of leases, colocation, and power commitments before they are signed.
- Build the forecasting and scenario analysis that ties the forward build pipeline to capital needs, so the company always knows its runway and funding requirements as it scales.
- Turn financial analysis into clear recommendations for the CEO and CFO on where to deploy capital and which deals clear the return threshold.

## What We're Looking For
- You've built financial and operating models from scratch that leadership actually used to make capital allocation or investment decisions.
- You've worked on capital raises, project finance, or M&A where your analysis directly supported a transaction that closed.
- You've moved fast on ambiguous problems with incomplete data, delivering a defensible number under a deadline rather than waiting for perfect inputs.
- You catch flawed assumptions in a model before they reach a decision-maker, and you can explain in one sentence why a deal does or does not pencil.
- You write and present analysis clearly enough that a non-finance executive can act on it without a follow-up meeting.
- You've owned a recurring financial process (forecast, board reporting, scenario analysis) and made it faster and sharper each cycle.
- Bonus: Investment banking, private equity, or infrastructure finance background. Project finance or debt structuring experience. Data center, energy, or real assets exposure. Advanced modeling in Python or SQL.

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