Senior Financial Analyst

Location: 10:
Star - 1601 McGee St. Kansas City, MO 64108

Reports To: VP of Finance

Status: Full-time, Exempt

Travel Required: No

We are seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to support the financial planning, development, and financing of a growing portfolio of data center developments. This role will be responsible for developing and maintaining financial models used to support construction financing and internal decision-making, overseeing project development budgets, forecasting project cash flows, and providing FP&A support across multiple active developments. The ideal candidate has projects and will work closely with Development, Construction, Accounting, and executive leadership.

• Develop and maintain project-level financial models supporting construction financing and internal decision-making.
• Prepare and update sources and uses, project cash flow forecasts, draw schedules, financing analyses, and project return models.
• Perform sensitivity analyses related to construction costs, financing assumptions, lease commencement dates, and operating assumptions.
• Update financial models as project scope, budgets, schedules, and financing assumptions evolve.

• Own the financial oversight of development budgets from acquisition through project completion.
• Monitor actual costs against approved budgets and identify cost variances.
• Forecast remaining project costs and total cost at completion.
• Assist with contractor draw packages, lender funding requests, and capital deployment

• Prepare project-level and consolidated cash flow forecasts.
• Develop annual budgets and rolling forecasts for development activities.
• Monitor capital expenditures, project liquidity, and financing requirements.
• Prepare monthly financial reporting packages for executive leadership.
• Support construction loan closings by preparing financial analyses and lender-required
• Coordinate financial information required for lender reporting and draw requests.
• Monitor loan proceeds, funding availability, and project cash requirements.

• Evaluate development decisions, scope changes, and capital allocation opportunities.
• Analyze project performance against underwriting assumptions.
• Provide ad hoc financial analyses to support executive decision-making.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of all activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

• Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting, Real Estate, Economics, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in commercial real estate development, construction finance, development FP&A, or project finance.
• Strong understanding of project economics, including development costs, operating cash flows, financing structures, debt service, returns, and valuation
• Understanding of debt financing, construction financing, project finance, refinancing, and other capital structures
• Experience developing and analyzing sources and uses, construction draw schedules, debt schedules, and long term cash flow forecasts
• Ability to perform scenario, sensitivity, and downside analysis around key development assumptions
• Experience managing the financial aspects of ground-up commercial real estate developments.
• Advanced Excel financial modeling skills.
• Strong understanding of construction budgets, project cash flows, capital expenditures, and construction lending.

development, infrastructure, or another capital intensive industry

• Experience underwriting projects with significant construction and development costs
• Experience evaluating customer contracts, lease economics, pricing structures, escalators, and other commercial terms
• Familiarity with data center economics, including MW based development costs, power costs, utilization, deployment schedules, and revenue per MW or kW
• Experience supporting lender or investor due diligence and preparing materials for
• Experience working cross functionally with development, construction, operations, finance, legal, and commercial teams

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position up to 50% of the time.
• The ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations.
• Ability to regularly stand, sit, talk, hear, reach,…