Financial Analyst – Finance Rotation Program

Compass Datacenters•Dallas, TX

7d•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 Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, and Delivery, and participate in structured coaching, mentoring, and career development throughout the program.

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.
Excel: able to build a multi-tab analysis from raw data using lookups, pivot tables, and conditional logic, without add-ins. This is tested during the interview process.
Written analysis: able to explain a variance in three sentences to someone who does not work in Finance. A short written exercise is part of the interview process.
Language: fluent spoken and written skills in English
Work authorization: must be legally authorized to work in either the United States or Canada. Your office assignment follows your work authorization.
Work arrangement: able to work in office full time at the assigned location

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