[Hiring] Director, Cost Management @IREN

Role Description

The Director, Cost Management is a strategic financial and operational leader responsible for safeguarding the financial health and capital efficiency of IREN’s entire data center portfolio. This role owns end-to-end financial governance – from initial project estimation and quantitative risk analysis through to vendor billing control and change order management – across our West Texas and Oklahoma campuses and the wider development pipeline.

With 100% renewable energy, we build, own and operate our data centers and take pride in being at the forefront of sustainable solutions for the ever-evolving applications of high-performance compute. We believe that human progress is invaluable, but it should be done in the right way – responsibly, sustainably and having a positive impact on the communities we operate in.

Qualifications

• Post secondary education in a relevant field such as Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Finance, Civil Engineering or a related discipline; a Master’s degree and/or CEP, PMP, RMP or AACE CCP/EVP certification is strongly preferred.
• 12+ years of progressive financial and commercial management experience, with a heavy emphasis on mission-critical facilities, hyperscale data centers, or large-scale global capital construction programs.
• Deep proficiency in cost engineering, quantitative risk analysis methodologies, earned value management (EVM) and capital forecasting.
• Demonstrated ability to build estimation frameworks from conceptual design through closeout, and to set and defend contingency and reserve positions with quantitative evidence.
• Extensive experience negotiating complex vendor contracts, managing multi-million-dollar billing pipelines, and arbitrating high-value change orders.
• Proven track record of building, mentoring and leading distributed, cross-regional teams in high-growth environments.
• Command of cost management, ERP and project management platforms (for example Procore, Kahua, Oracle Unifier, SAP or similar) and reporting tools such as Power BI.
• Working knowledge of data center capital cost structure, including shell versus fit-out, long-lead equipment pricing and cost per MW benchmarking.
• Highly proficient in MS Office specifically; Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint, and Outlook.
• Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to interact effectively with executive leadership, service providers and potentially members of the community.
• Thorough research and problem-solving skills, with the commercial judgement to hold a position under pressure from contractors and internal stakeholders.
• Superior time management and multitasking skills with a strong sense of urgency.
• Passionate and confident individual with demonstrated organization, prioritization and critical thinking skills.
• Experience with problem solving in complex projects that have a company-wide impact.
• Willingness to be based within commutable distance of our West Texas or Oklahoma operations and to travel across the portfolio as required.

Company Description

IREN is a vertically integrated AI Cloud provider, delivering large-scale data centers and GPU clusters for AI training and inference. IREN’s platform is underpinned by its expansive portfolio of grid-connected land and power in renewable-rich regions across North America, Europe and APAC.