Senior Financial Analyst, Project Finance & Financial Modeling — AI Data Center Campus

Company Description - First Global Technology (FGT) builds advanced computing infrastructure to support demanding AI applications across real-time analytics, scientific research, and defense-related work. The company provides fast, reliable access to GPU resources, with a primary focus on mobile, modular data centers that deliver high-performance computing to remote or secure locations. FGT’s team brings expertise in fiber optics, AI engineering, supercomputing, and national security, enabling solutions that meet complex technical and security requirements. The organization is developing a flexible, high-capacity GPU network to support both private and public AI systems in the U.S. and around the world, offering professionals the opportunity to contribute to mission-critical, cutting-edge technology.

Role Description - We are seeking a Senior Financial Analyst, Project Finance & Financial Modeling to support the financial planning, investment analysis, and project economics for a large-scale AI data center campus . This is a hands-on, mid-level role for someone with strong financial modeling experience who can build, maintain, and improve complex Excel-based models. The role will work closely with the CEO and senior leadership to analyze development costs, capital needs, financing scenarios, revenue assumptions, power costs, operating expenses, and long-term project returns. This is not a back-office finance role. The person will be close to the project, close to leadership, and involved in modeling the financial foundation of a major AI infrastructure campus. The ideal candidate is a strong financial modeler who is ready for high visibility but is still hands-on in the details. This person should be comfortable working directly with our CEO, who has 40 years building and operating large communications and development companies. The candidate will be updating models quickly, pressure-testing assumptions, and producing clear analysis that supports major business decisions.

The ideal candidate has experience in financial modeling, project finance, infrastructure, real estate development, energy, data centers, investment banking, private equity, corporate finance, or another capital-intensive industry.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, mathematics, engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• 4–7 years of experience in financial modeling, corporate finance, project finance, investment banking, infrastructure finance, real estate finance, private equity, FP&A, or a related field.
• Strong Excel-based financial modeling skills are required.
• Experience building or maintaining multi-scenario financial models.
• Ability to analyze cash flows, capital costs, financing assumptions, operating expenses, and project returns.
• Experience with project finance, infrastructure finance, or capital-intensive development projects.
• Familiarity with data center economics, including MW capacity, power costs, utilization, capex per MW, operating costs, lease structures, customer ramp schedules, and development phasing.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work with complex assumptions.
• Ability to communicate financial analysis clearly to senior executives.
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment.
• Must be able to work 3–4 days per week onsite in Amenia, NY .
• Must be located in the Hudson Valley, NY region or willing to relocate within commuting distance.
• Must be a U.S. citizen and eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance , subject to applicable law, customer requirements, and company security obligations.
• Active or prior U.S. security clearance is a plus, but not required.

Responsibilities

1. Build and maintain detailed financial models for the AI data center campus, including development costs, phasing, capital expenditures, operating expenses, financing assumptions, revenue forecasts, and return metrics.
2. Prepare scenario analyses, sensitivity cases, cash flow forecasts, IRR/NPV analyses, payback models, and capital requirement projections.
3. Work directly with the CEO to update models, test assumptions, and prepare decision-making materials.
4. Support analysis related to campus development phases, power availability, customer demand, pricing, utilization, construction costs, and financing options.
5. Translate project assumptions from engineering, constructio…