Director Finance - DC Construction & Operations Finance

Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world’s most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster.

We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI.

We're looking for problem‑solving, opportunity‑finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services.

If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high‑performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe.

Crusoe is looking for a Director of Construction & Data Center Operations Finance to own the financial oversight of capital projects across their entire lifecycle — from groundbreaking through energization, turnover, and ongoing data center operations. This role sits at the intersection of Construction/Development, Project Finance, Data Center Operations, and Accounting — responsible for budgeting, cost control, draw management, financeability , and financial reporting during the build phase, and then for operating cost management, performance reporting, and asset‑level financial oversight once a facility goes live.

• Own construction budgets for assigned campuses/projects, partnering with Development, Construction Management, and Procurement to build and maintain accurate total installed cost (TIC) estimates from executive approval to live.
• Track budget-to-actual performance across hard costs, soft costs, and contingency; identify and escalates variances, cost overruns, and change orders early.

• Ensure construction spend and project milestones remain in compliance with loan agreements, equity funding agreements, and any project-level financing covenants.
• Partner with Treasury/Capital Markets teams to forecast funding needs and ensure capital is available to match construction spend curves across multiple concurrent projects.

• Support financial review of GC contracts, EPC agreements, and major vendor/equipment purchase agreements (e.g., long-lead electrical and mechanical equipment), advising on payment terms, milestone structures, and risk allocation.
• Partner with Legal and Procurement on the financial terms of construction and equipment contracts, including liquidated damages provisions and payment/performance bonding.

• Maintain a portfolio-level view of construction projects — cost, schedule, and funding status — for leadership, board, and lender/investor reporting.
• Own the financial handoff from construction to operations at project completion, including final cost reconciliation, capitalization, and asset turnover to the operating asset management/accounting teams.
• Build tools and processes to scale construction finance oversight as Crusoe’s number of concurrent active builds grows.

• Own financial oversight of data centers once energized and turned over to operations, including operating budgets, actual‑vs‑budget performance, and cost‑per‑MW/cost‑per‑rack…