Fractional Head of Finance

Job description

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Fractional Head of Finance based in United States.** This is a high-impact opportunity to shape the financial architecture of an early-stage, capital-intensive technology venture. You will operate at the intersection of AI infrastructure, data centers, real estate, energy, and project finance. The role will involve structuring site and equipment financing while evaluating complex commercial and partnership models. You will build the financial models that connect deployment costs, power, compute capacity, utilization, pricing, and returns. Working closely with founders, investors, lenders, landlords, and advisors, you will turn ambitious infrastructure plans into financeable projects. The position begins on a fractional or part-time basis, with potential to expand into a broader finance leadership role as the business scales. It is an ideal fit for a commercially minded finance leader who thrives in high-ambiguity environments and enjoys building from the ground up. ### Accountabilities - Design and help implement the financial architecture for a multi-entity operating model, including parent-level and site-specific project entities or SPVs. - Build and maintain integrated financial models covering site deployment, equipment, power, utilization, pricing, operating assumptions, capital requirements, and returns. - Evaluate and structure commercial arrangements with real-estate partners, including revenue-share, fixed-lease, and hybrid structures. - Assess tax, accounting, and REIT-related considerations with external advisors and counterparties and translate them into practical transaction structures. - Develop financing strategies for GPUs, servers, power systems, and other infrastructure through equipment financing, leasing, debt, and strategic partner capital. - Lead financial analysis for new infrastructure sites, including development budgets, sources and uses, construction and equipment draws, financing requirements, returns, and sensitivities. - Model site-level cash flows and economics to support deployment decisions and optimize capital allocation across the network. - Partner with leadership to assess the financial tradeoffs between power costs, compute capacity, utilization, performance, and customer economics. - Prepare investor-ready forecasts, financial materials, data-room reporting, and scenario analyses to support future fundraising and investor diligence. - Establish practical finance processes, controls, reporting frameworks, and decision-making tools appropriate for an early-stage company. - Coordinate with legal, tax, accounting, real-estate, infrastructure, and financing partners to move complex transactions from initial concept through closing. - Provide commercially grounded financial guidance to founders and leadership as the business expands its infrastructure footprint. ## Requirements - Proven experience in data center and/or commercial real estate development finance, including underwriting development costs, capital requirements, financing structures, and project-level returns. - Background in project finance, structured finance, infrastructure finance, real-estate finance, equipment finance, or a closely related discipline. - Demonstrated ability to build and assess sophisticated project-level financial models, capital structures, and commercial arrangements. - Strong understanding of debt, leases, equipment financing, cash-flow waterfalls, investment returns, and financing tradeoffs. - Experience working with SPVs, project entities, or other multi-entity ownership and financing structures. - Advanced financial modeling and analytical capabilities, with the ability to establish a reliable financial source of truth despite incomplete or evolving information. - Strong understanding of pricing and unit economics across power costs, compute capacity, utilization, infrastructure performance, and customer economics. - Commercial creativity and sound judgment when evaluating revenue-share, lease, financing, and partnership structures. - Ability to communicate complex financial concepts clearly to founders, investors, operators, landlords, lenders, and external advisors. - Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to coordinate stakeholders across finance, legal, tax, real estate, infrastructure, and capital markets. - Comfort operating independently in an early-stage, high-ambiguity environment without a predefined playbook. - Willingness to begin in a fractional or part-time capacity, with the potential to take on broader responsibilities as the business grows. **Nice to have:** - Experience financing digital infrastructure, energy assets, distributed infrastructure, or other capital-intensive technology projects. - Familiarity with GPU or server equipment financing, colocation economics, power procurement, or infrastructure capacity planning. - Experience structuring transactions with institutional real-estate owners or REIT counterparties. - Experience supporting venture fundraising, investor diligence, or the transition from seed stage to Series A and beyond. - A network of relationships across lenders, equipment-finance providers, infrastructure investors, tax advisors, or strategic capital partners. ## Benefits - **Flexible Engagement:** Fractional or part-time structure to start, with potential to expand into a broader finance leadership position. - **High-Impact Scope:** Direct influence over site economics, capital strategy, financing structures, and partner relationships at an early stage. - **Category-Defining Opportunity:** Help build the financial foundation for a new model of distributed AI infrastructure. - **Growth Potential:** Opportunity to grow alongside the business as deployments, entity complexity, capital requirements, and financing activity increase. - **Strategic Support:** Access to experienced investment, operating, and industry resources to support critical early-stage initiatives. - **Competitive Compensation:** Compensation designed to reflect the seniority and commercial impact of the role. - **Equity Participation:** Opportunity to participate directly in the value created as the business grows. - **Remote Work:** Remote position with preference for candidates in the New York City area.