Financial Operations Project Manager
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WHO YOU ARE:
The Project Manager is responsible for overseeing the project lifecycle of large-scale hyperscale data center initiatives, from contract execution through final billing, project closeout, and financial reconciliation. This role works closely with Sales, Development, RPM, Accounting, Billing, Cost Control, Customers, and delivery teams to consolidate and distribute information, coordinate cross-functional workflows, and ensure contractual requirements, billing milestones, revenue recognition, and cash collection activities are executed timely and accurately.
The role is accountable for maintaining operational alignment across business units, driving issue resolution, supporting consistent day-to-day execution of established processes, and ensuring contractual and operational deliverables are satisfied throughout the project lifecycle. The Project Manager plays a critical role in maintaining project governance, tracking financial milestones, and providing executive visibility into project status, financial exposure, billing readiness, forecasted revenue realization, and overall process effectiveness in support of client delivery.
WHAT YOU WILL DO:
- Serve as the primary point of coordination for customer reimbursement projects, including program governance, lease milestone schedules, billing timelines, and cross-functional stakeholder alignment.
- Interpret contracts and translate commercial terms, modifications, and customer requirements into actionable project plans, billing schedules, milestone tracking, and financial forecasts.
- Lead recurring cross-functional project reviews to monitor overall project performance, financial outcomes, operational readiness, and closeout progress; proactively identify risks, dependencies, and issues impacting billing, cash flow, revenue realization, customer approvals, and project execution, and coordinate mitigation strategies across key stakeholders.
- Support invoice generation, billing package support documentation, and related customer approval processes to ensure timely and accurate billing and collections.
- Continuously refine process, governance, and communication workstreams to improve NRC lifecycle management, stakeholder visibility, and overall execution effectiveness.
- Reinforce consistent use of defined tools, trackers, and communication frameworks.
- Develop standard operating procedures and playbooks.
WHAT YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
- 5+ years of experience in data center delivery, construction, change management, project/process management, real estate development, business integration, or related field
- Experience developing and implementing standardized processes or operational workflows
- Strong ability to collaborate across teams and influence stakeholders without direct authority
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience working in project controls, PMO, or program management environment.
- Experience supporting forecasting, billing, collections, or financial operations.
- Experience reviewing and interpreting commercial contracts
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About QTS Realty Trust
QTS Realty Trust is a technology infrastructure company providing data center facilities and managed services.
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