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Title: Financial Operations AnalystProject Duration: 12 months contract
Date: 01/04/2027 Est. End Date: 12/31/2027
Role OverviewWe are seeking a highly analytical and detail-oriented Co-Location Financial Operations Analyst to own the monthly financial operations associated with our global Co-Location hosting providers.
This role will be responsible for validating and approving monthly invoices covering Fixed Rent / Space, Metered Power, Smart Hands, and related Co-Lo services, ensuring charges align with contracts, purchase orders, expected consumption, and financial forecasts.
The analyst will be a critical control point between Data Center Operations, Supply Chain/Procurement, Finance, Accounts Payable, FinOps, and Co-Lo providers. The role will also help transition invoice operations from manual reconciliation toward standardized and AI-assisted exception-based processing.
Key Responsibilities:Monthly Invoice Validation & Approval- Review and approve monthly Co-Lo invoices for:
- Fixed Rent / Space & Power MRC
- Metered Power
- Smart Hands
- Validate invoice period, PO, line-item classification, quantities, unit rates
- Ensure invoices are charged against the correct PO and service category.
- Compare invoices against expected monthly costs and investigate material variances before approval.
- Maintain timely invoice approvals to avoid payment delays, supplier disputes, or invoice rejection.
Accruals, Forecasting & Reporting- Track invoices received, approved, pending, disputed, or missing.
- Recommend monthly accruals for services where invoices have not been received.
- Provide actual invoice data for forecasting and budget-versus-actual reporting.
- Track cost trends across providers, sites, service categories, and billing periods.
- Maintain supporting documentation for Finance and audit inquiries.
Provider & Cross-Functional Coordination- Work with Co-Lo suppliers to resolve billing discrepancies and obtain missing invoices or supporting documentation.
- Partner with Data Center Operations, Accounts Payable, Procurement, Finance and FinOps on invoice and PO issues.
- Drive issues through resolution and maintain clear documentation of exceptions and outcomes.
- Automation & Continuous Improvement
- Help standardize invoice formats, service classifications, PO structures, and approval controls.
- Partner with engineering and automation teams to improve invoice extraction and validation.
- Support AI-assisted matching of Invoice → PO → Contract → Usage/Forecast.
Qualifications- 3+ years of experience in financial operations, accounts payable, procurement operations, FinOps, supply chain, infrastructure operations, or related analytical roles.
- Strong analytical and reconciliation skills.
- Experience working with invoices, purchase orders, contracts, budgets, or financial data.
- Strong Excel/data-analysis capabilities.
- Ability to identify billing discrepancies and independently drive resolution.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to operate within financial controls and approval deadlines.
- Effective communication across Finance, Procurement, Operations, and external suppliers.
Preferred- Experience with data centers, Co-Location providers, cloud infrastructure, telecommunications, or facilities operations.
- Familiarity with consumption-based billing, particularly kWh/power usage.
- Experience with ERP/procurement and invoice approval workflows.
- Experience with Power BI or similar reporting/analytics tools.
- Exposure to AI/document-intelligence technologies for extracting and validating invoices.
Required Screening Questions [must be in resume]:- Describe the largest set of Co-Location invoices you’ve been responsible for reviewing and approving in a single month. What providers, service types, and approximate spend were involved?
- Describe a billing discrepancy you identified and worked to resolve with a supplier. What was the issue, and what was your role in resolving it?
- Describe how you’ve estimated and recorded a month-end accrual for a service whose invoice hadn’t arrived yet. How did you check it once the actual invoice came in?
- Describe a process or control you helped improve for invoice handling. What was the problem, what did you change, and what was your contribution?
| Skill area | Candidate exp in Years |
| Invoice and PO validation | |
| Pricing and quote verification | |
| Accruals and forecasting | |
| Spend and operational reporting | |
| Excel and data analysis | |
| Large data set and financial modeling | |
| ERP (SAP, BPC) | |
| ServiceNow (ITAM, HAM, CMDB) | |
| Procure-to-Pay process ownership | |
| Supplier and vendor coordination | |
| ITAD and asset lifecycle | |
| Master data management | |
| Process improvement and automation | |
| Cross-functional influence and communication | |
| Project management | |
