About the Role
Serve as the Finance Business Partner for Data Center Projects, initially supporting a major deployment in the EMEA region before scaling support to future build projects. Partner closely with commercial, design and construction, procurement, project management, accounting, and operations teams to provide actionable financial insight, support commercial decision-making and capital planning, and strengthen financial governance across large-scale data center deployments.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate annual budgeting and quarterly forecasting processes.
- Develop and maintain financial models for operating and capital expenditure.
- Monitor performance against budget, identifying risks and opportunities.
- Support long-range planning and capacity growth forecasts.
- Deliver monthly management reporting and variance analysis.
- Develop KPI dashboards and performance metrics.
- Provide financial insights and recommendations to leadership.
- Support executive and board reporting requirements.
- Track and report on infrastructure and data center capital investments.
- Support business case development for new sites and expansion projects.
- Monitor project spend against approved budgets.
- Maintain strong financial governance and investment discipline.
- Partner with the accounting team on accruals and validation during monthly, quarterly, and annual close processes.
- Analyse key cost drivers, including power, colocation, facilities, maintenance contracts, hardware, and network costs.
- Identify efficiency improvements and cost-optimisation opportunities.
- Partner with operations leaders to evaluate productivity and efficiency initiatives.
- Support vendor financial reviews and contract evaluations.
- Improve forecasting accuracy and financial controls.
- Standardise and automate reporting processes.
- Enhance financial transparency and data quality.
- Build scalable finance processes that enable business growth.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in FP&A, operations finance, infrastructure finance, or a related role.
- Strong financial modelling, forecasting, and analytical skills.
- Experience supporting operational or technical business functions.
- Advanced Excel skills.
- Ability to communicate financial concepts clearly to non-financial stakeholders.
- High ownership, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to challenge assumptions with data.
- Experience in data centers, cloud infrastructure, telecommunications, colocation, hyperscale environments, or critical facilities operations is preferred.
- Understanding of data center cost drivers, including power, cooling, network infrastructure, and capacity utilisation, is preferred.
- Familiarity with KPI reporting for infrastructure operations and asset utilisation is preferred.
Skills
- Financial modelling
- Forecasting
- Analytical skills
- Advanced Excel
- Communication
Location
- London
Work Type
- Remote flexibility
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
Benefits
- Highly competitive package (base + equity)
- Reviews every 12 months
- Opportunity to join a fast-growing technology startup
- Dynamic progression plan
- Human-First Flexibility
- Autonomy to shape your day
About the Company
- Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI, providing cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers.
- Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development.
- Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.
- We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency.
- As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work.
- If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.
Equal Opportunity
- We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
- If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.
