Financial Analyst

Compass Datacenters • Dallas, TX

4d • Onsite

About The Position

The Finance Rotation Program is Compass Datacenters' entry point for early-career finance talent. Over the course of the program, you will complete a series of 6- to 12-month assignments across the Finance organization, building a working knowledge of how capital, cost, and cash move through a data center development and operating business. In each rotation, you will be expected to deliver accurate, well-supported analysis on schedule, learn a new function, its systems, and its stakeholders quickly, translate operational and project realities into financial terms, use approved AI tools to accelerate research, analysis, and recurring reporting, document your work, build working relationships across departments, and participate in structured coaching, mentoring, and career development throughout the program. The program concludes with a permanent placement into one of the functional groups. Your first rotation will be in Operations Finance, supporting the build-out of a new function and team. Rotations are assigned by business need and your development plan. You will report to the functional lead of the group you are working in, who is responsible for your quarterly performance review. This is currently a single seat with the intent of growing it into a larger pooled analyst team. Compass supports CPA, CFA, and CMA exam costs and annual dues. This is a fully in-office role, located in Dallas, TX for US work authorization or Toronto, ON for Canadian work authorization. Travel is 0-5% to Compass campuses and project sites.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related quantitative field, completed by the program start date.
• 0 to 2 years of full-time professional experience in finance, accounting, or a comparable analytical role. Relevant internship or co-op experience counts toward this.
• Able to build a multi-tab analysis from raw data using lookups, pivot tables, and conditional logic, without add-ins (tested during interview).
• Able to explain a variance in three sentences to someone who does not work in Finance (written exercise part of interview).
• Fluent spoken and written skills in English.
• Must be legally authorized to work in either the United States or Canada. Your office assignment follows your work authorization.
• Able to work in office full time at the assigned location.
• Comfortable being the new person: you restart the learning curve every six to twelve months, and the discomfort of not yet knowing has to be tolerable.
• Sound judgment about when a number needs to be checked against source, and the confidence to escalate rather than guess. This applies equally to your own work and to anything an AI tool produces.
• Solid grounding in accounting and financial reporting principles and practices.
• Strong conceptual and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail that survives a deadline.
• Able to build trust quickly with people who did not choose you and who will hand you off in a few months.
• Clear, concise written communication: able to produce a decision-ready summary, not only a spreadsheet.
• A steward mindset: accountable for the outcome, and for leaving the work better documented than you found it.
• Able to manage multiple concurrent deliverables under deadline pressure.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on use of an AI assistant such as Claude or Copilot on real analytical work. Be prepared to describe something you built, automated, or accelerated, and how you checked that it was right.
• Exposure to NetSuite, Procore, Power BI, or an enterprise FP&A or EPM tool.
• Working knowledge of SQL or Python for data extraction and cleanup.
• Coursework or early progress toward the CPA, CFA, or CMA.
• Familiarity with construction, real estate, infrastructure, energy, or utilities finance. Data center industry experience is not required.

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly forecasts, budget input, and variance analysis for assigned cost centers, sites, functions, or projects, and write the commentary that goes with them.
• Support month-end close, including accrual schedules, reclasses, and account reconciliations.
• Pull, clean, and reconcile data across NetSuite, Procore, and other source systems, and be able to trace any number you produce back to its source.
• Build and maintain recurring reporting and dashboards in Excel, Power BI, and the company's FP&A tool, and flag the cost trends and anomalies you find rather than waiting to be asked.
• Use approved AI tools to summarize contracts and reports, extract data from unstructured documents, and draft first-pass analysis, verifying every figure against source before it is circulated.
• Identify and document manual finance processes that can be automated, and build the improvement where you are able to.
• Track and forecast Opex and CapEx spend, including long-term forecasting under NNN and Modified Gross lease structures.
• Prepare short-term cash flow forecasts and daily cash positioning, and monitor bank balances and liquidity.
• Support covenant calculations, draw requests, funding schedules, and lender and investor reporting packages.
• Maintain project cost reports, commitment versus actual tracking, change order logs, contingency, and cost-to-complete analysis for capital projects.
• Support the build and maintenance of project financial models.
• Analyze vendor pricing, maintenance agreements, service contracts, and long-lead equipment commitments, and prepare spend analytics by category, supplier, and campus.
• Prepare schedules and exhibits supporting board, investor, and joint venture reporting.
• Ad hoc analysis and other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Professional certification support (CPA, CFA, CMA exam costs and annual dues)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level