Capital Projects Financial Lead - Remote US

Capital Projects Financial Lead - Remote US

Columbia, SC, US

5 days ago Requisition

Capital Projects Financial Lead

DartPoints is a leading provider of scalable, reliable data center infrastructure and cloud services solutions designed to support the growing digital needs of enterprises, service providers, and cloud-driven organizations. With a focus on flexibility, performance, and customer partnership, DartPoints delivers purpose-built data centers that enable businesses to operate, scale, and innovate with confidence. As a growth-oriented company, DartPoints combines deep infrastructure expertise with a hands-on, customer-first approach.

Our team is driven by accountability, collaboration, and a commitment to operational excellence as we expand our platform and capabilities across key markets. In 2025, DartPoints received a strategic growth investment from NOVA Infrastructure, fueling expansion in our existing markets and providing the capital to grow beyond our current footprint.

The Financial Project Lead owns the financial analysis, cost control, and reporting for DartPoints' capital projects across our data center portfolio — from greenfield development and site expansions through commissioning and placed-in-service. This person partners closely with Construction Management, Development/Expansion, and Procurement to keep projects on budget, forecast cost-to-complete, and translate construction progress into financial outcomes. The ideal candidate brings at least five years of financial or strategic planning and analysis experience, with a demonstrated ability to manage the financial side of capital projects, including budgeting, cost control, capex forecasting, draw/funding schedules, schedule-linked reporting, and risk management.

Experience in data center, real estate, infrastructure, energy, or another capital-intensive construction environment is strongly preferred, as is proficiency with ERP and job-costing tools such as Sage, Net Suite, or similar.

• Flexible in the Mountain, Central, or Eastern US time zones

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, or a similar analytically oriented discipline
• 3+ years of relevant professional experience, including direct exposure to capital projects or construction financials
• Demonstrated financial acumen delivering forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and data-grounded interpretation of results
• Experience building and maintaining capital project budgets, tracking budget-vs-actual, and producing cost-to-complete / estimate-at-completion (ETC/EAC) analysis
• Experience leading project financial reviews and cost meetings with cross-functional teams (construction, development, procurement, operations)
• Experience with financial planning software (preferably Cube, Planful, or Hyperion Essbase)
• Proficiency in Excel (macros, index-match, arrays, pivots, lookups, conditional logic)

• Familiarity with capital project mechanics: authorization for expenditure (AFE) / capital approval workflows, change orders, contractor pay applications, retainage, capitalized interest, and construction-in-progress (CIP) accounting
• Familiarity with U.S. GAAP, particularly around capitalization, depreciation, and placed-in-service treatment
• Experience with job-costing or construction management platforms (e.g., Procore, Sage Intacct Construction)
• Track record analyzing large volumes of complex data and presenting findings to senior management
• Strong written and oral communication, with the ability to tailor messaging across levels of management
• Experience with SQL / database management and data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau, etc.)
• Proven ability to work autonomously and proactively in a dynamic environment

• Lead financial support for capital projects; building and maintaining project budgets, capex forecasts, and cost-to-complete models across the portfolio
• Track budget-vs-actual and forecast variances at the project and portfolio level, investigating and explaining drivers
• Own capitalized labor tracking for capital projects; ensuring accurate identification, allocation,…