# Director of Datacenter Forecasting

**Company:** [Fluidstack](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fluidstack)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Finance & Accounting
**Salary:** $301k – $377k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** financial forecasting, capex modeling, opex modeling, scenario analysis, driver-based models, data center cost structures, project finance, pigment, anaplan, monte carlo methods
**Posted:** 2026-07-17

> Lead financial forecasting for datacenter capex, opex, and cash flows. Build models and run scenario analysis to guide site sequencing, deals, and capital raises at a high-velocity AI infrastructure company. Requires leadership experience in capital-intensive infrastructure forecasting with strong actuals reconciliation.

## Job Description

## Own the datacenter financial forecast
- Own capex, opex, and cash forecasts across every site and scenario.
- Build the forecasting engine, drivers, models, and systems that convert build plans into financial projections.
- Run scenario analysis to inform leadership decisions on sequencing sites, deals, and capital raises.
- Partner closely with delivery, development, and accounting teams to ensure forecasts reflect operational reality.

## Requirements
- Led financial forecasting for capital-intensive infrastructure (data centers, energy, telecom, or real assets).
- Built driver-based capex models used for board-level decisions.
- Forecasts are consistently validated against actuals, with gaps shrinking quarterly.
- Proactively obtain operational truth behind numbers rather than accepting submissions.
- Built and led a small high-output team.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Deep knowledge of data center cost structures.
- Experience with project finance interfaces.
- Proficiency with Pigment or Anaplan.
- Familiarity with Monte Carlo methods.

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