Director, Finance & Business Intelligence

About Nscale

Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.

We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.

About the Role

We’re hiring a Director, Finance & Business Intelligence to lead the BI and financial analytics function that powers executive and operational decision-making across Nscale’s infrastructure business.

This role will own the dashboards, models, reporting systems, and data governance needed to give leaders a trusted view of performance across financial planning, operational delivery, capacity investment, vendor performance, and accounting operations. You’ll work closely with Finance, Engineering, Commercial, Strategic Project Management, Vendor Management, and operational platform owners to ensure reporting is accurate, actionable, and aligned to business priorities.

This is a US-based role.

What You’ll be Doing

• Own BI infrastructure strategy, including dashboard architecture, reporting systems, data pipelines, data governance, and KPI frameworks.
• Build and maintain dashboards tracking Time-to-Power, vendor SLA performance, CapEx versus budget, program delivery health, and other executive-level operational and financial metrics.
• Develop financial models for capacity planning, new programme investment cases, cost optimisation, and site investment decisions.
• Lead FP&A operations, including annual budget development, rolling forecasts, variance analysis, and executive reporting.
• Partner with Engineering and Commercial teams to translate operational, commercial, and capacity data into clear financial insight.
• Oversee accounting operations, ensuring accruals, receipting, period-close activities, and vendor payment workflows are accurate and completed on time.
• Own reporting configuration, dashboard buildouts, data maintenance, and KPI frameworks across operational platforms such as Jira, ServiceNow, Sunbird DCIM, Linear, Procore, Salesforce, or equivalent systems.
• Coordinate closely with Vendor Management to ensure platform contracts, SLAs, data access, integrations, and reporting requirements support the needs of the Finance BI function.
• Manage and develop senior team members across analytics, reporting, accounting, and financial operations.

About You

• 8+ years of experience across business intelligence, analytics, FP&A, financial systems, or a closely related field.
• Experience operating in infrastructure, datacenter, cloud, AI infrastructure, capital-intensive, or complex operational environments.
• Deep expertise with BI platforms such as Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or equivalent tools, with strong data modelling and financial modelling capability.
• Proven ability to build, govern, and scale a BI or financial analytics function from the ground up.
• Experience configuring or maintaining operational platforms for reporting and data output purposes, including Jira, ServiceNow, Sunbird DCIM, Linear, Procore, Salesforce, or similar systems.
• Strong FP&A capability, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, executive reporting, and investment case modelling.
• Ability to translate complex financial and operational data into clear executive narratives and practical business recommendations.
• Strong leadership skills, with experience managing senior individual contributors or managers and creating clarity across cross-functional teams.
• Highly organised, commercially minded, and comfortable operating with urgency in a fast-moving scale-up environment.

Nice to Have

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• CPA, CFA, MBA, or equivalent advanced qualification.
• Experience with datacenter delivery, capacity planning, infrastructure investment, vendor SLA reporting, or operational finance for large-scale technical environments.
• Experience partnering with vendor management, systems integration, or platform ownership teams on reporting and data requirements.

Why this role matters

Nscale is scaling quickly, and leadership needs a trusted, accurate, and connected view of financial and operational performance. This role will create the single source of truth for BI, FP&A, accounting operations, and operational platform reporting, enabling better decisions across capacity, investment, delivery, and cost control.

What We Can Offer You

At Nscale, you'll find a collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment where your contributions spark real impact. We're building something extraordinary, and we want you at the core.

• Highly competitive US compensation package, with base, bonus, equity, and reviews every 12 months.
• Join the fastest-growing tech startup, your chance to push boundaries, collaborate with brilliant minds, and make your mark on cutting-edge AI.
• Expect a dynamic progression plan tailored to your ambitions. Grow by trying new things, leading, challenging the status quo, and owning your impact, always with our full support.
• Human-First Flexibility: We treat you as humans first. Our flexible workplace trusts Nscalers to deliver, giving you the autonomy to shape your day around life's moments.
• Join our thriving remote-first team. Geography is no barrier to impact or connection. We build seamless virtual collaboration, empowering you, wherever you work.

Equal Opportunities Statement

We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds. If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know. The responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and are intended to provide a general overview of the position. The employee may be required to perform additional duties, tasks, and responsibilities as assigned by management, consistent with the skills and qualifications required for the role.