Finance / Commercial Project Manager

Overview

The organization is seeking a Finance / Commercial Project Manager to support data center infrastructure projects across the full lifecycle—from bid and contract through construction, billing, and closeout. This role works closely with the Chief Financial Officer and is part of the finance support team serving the organization’s project portfolio.

Responsibilities

Project Finance & Controlling

• Own the full financial lifecycle of assigned projects, including budget, forecast, cost-to-complete, and margin.
• Build and defend cost-to-complete forecasts and apply earned value / cost-variance methodology to track project performance and recovery.
• Track actuals against budget, explain variances, and drive corrective action with project teams.
• Manage project cash flow, billing milestones, retention, and working capital.
• Apply revenue recognition (ASC 606 / IFRS 15) for long-term and construction-type contracts.

Accounts Receivable & Accounts Payable

• Own project accounts receivable: invoicing and billing milestones, retention, collections, and aging.
• Manage project accounts payable: subcontractor and vendor invoices, approvals, and payment terms to ensure costs are captured accurately and cash is optimized.
• Reconcile AR and AP to project cost and revenue.
• Monitor net working capital and billing-vs-cost position (over/under billings) on each project.

Commercial & Contract Management

• Own commercial and contract management for assigned projects by reviewing, interpreting, and administering contract terms (pricing, payment terms, retention, liquidated damages, warranties, and risk allocation).
• Maintain contract compliance through timely notices, consistent correspondence, and substantiating records that support entitlement.
• Lead the change-order process end to end: identify and quantify scope changes, prepare price and document change orders, secure approvals, and ensure changes are reflected in budget, forecast, and billing to protect margin and entitlements.
• Manage claims and dispute economics in partnership with legal counsel.
• Interface with customers, vendors, and joint venture partners on commercial and contractual matters.

Procurement & Buyout

• Partner with Procurement on project sourcing, subcontractor and supplier selection, purchase commitments, and cost-down opportunities.
• Support project buyout by analyzing subcontractor and supplier proposals, supporting contract issuance, and tracking buyout savings against project budget.
• Manage subcontractor accounts by reviewing valuations, addressing contract performance issues, and ensuring payments match claimed value, contract rules, and agreed valuation methods.
• Support supplier and subcontractor negotiations, ensuring commercial and payment terms align with project cash flow and risk objectives.

Risk Management

• Maintain a live project risk register by identifying commercial and financial risks early, quantifying exposure, and driving mitigation and contingency treatments.
• Monitor contingency drawdown and evaluate the margin and cash impact of change orders, claims, and emerging risks.
• Provide early warning to leadership on projects trending off budget, margin, or cash targets.

Business Partnership & Reporting

• Serve as a business partner to project managers and stakeholders (customers, suppliers, subcontractors, legal counsel, and internal leadership) by providing financial insight that drives project decisions.
• Prepare project reviews, dashboards, and executive, investor, and lender reporting on portfolio performance.
• Support bid and proposal pricing, sensitivity analysis, and go/no-go decisions.

Systems & Continuous Improvement

• Support the NetSuite and project-accounting implementation and reporting build-out.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on efficiency, accuracy, and accountability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Engineering, or a related field; MBA or CPA a plus.
• 8+ years in project finance, commercial or project management, or FP&A—ideally construction, infrastructure, data centers, or energy; senior individual contributor.
• Working knowledge of US construction and EPC contract structures (e.g., AIA, ConsensusDocs, EPC/design-build), percentage-of-completion accounting, and change-order and claims processes.
• Understanding of project accounting principles, including earned value, cost variance, and cash flow.
• Strong financial modeling skills; experience with ERP and project-accounting systems; familiarity with the NetSuite ecosystem is desirable.

Preferred Qualifications / Specific Skills & Abilities

• Strong contract management and negotiation instincts, with a solid grasp of change-order, claims, and risk-management processes; comfortable with legal and commercial counterparties.
• Proven ability to partner with and influence project managers, senior stakeholders, and a broad set of external parties—customers, suppliers, subcontractors—to drive outcomes without direct authority.
• Solid procurement, buyout, and cost-management understanding in a project environment.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment while meeting tight deadlines.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Self-motivated, strategic, collaborative, and highly organized.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Compensation & Benefits

• Full-Time position.
• Compensation and benefits details were not provided in the job description.

Location

• Remote (United States)

Reporting Line

• Reports to: Chief Financial Officer