Senior Director, Finance
Senior Director, Finance
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Job Description
Purpose
The EMEA Regional Senior Finance Director is a strategic finance leader responsible for partnering with senior business stakeholders across Sales Portfolio Management/Commercial Operation Investment and other Corporate functions in the region. The role plays a pivotal part in enabling data-driven decisions enhancing profitability and supporting sustainable growth across the region. The ideal candidate combines deep financial expertise with strong business acumen thrives in fast paced environments and brings expertise from asset-heavy or infrastructure sectors like data centres telecom or real estate.
What youll do
Business Partnering:
Collaborate with Sales Operations Investments Portfolio Management/Commercial teams to identify opportunities for profitability improvements and cost optimization.
Translate financial insight into actionable strategic recommendations.
Oversee the development of performance dashboards and scorecards; monitor key metrics to ensure alignment with EMEA strategy.
Oversee the development of financial insight for targeted business performance reviews with regional management.
Collaborate with the sub-regional Finance Directors to provide the same support to the sub-regional management teams.
Performance Management:
Support target setting across EMEA markets
Partner with the Financial Planning and Reporting Team to deliver regional budget forecast and long-range plan.
Actively participate in budget reviews challenge assumptions across revenue leasing capex repair and maintenance spend and energy costs.
Conduct deep dives into business performance and provide actionable insights on revenue cost drivers leasing inventory management capex/opex energy across markets and assets to ensure target delivery.
Support monthly management reporting with topical insights.
Partner with Portfolio Management/Commercial and Investment teams to track performance against business cases and support return on investment improvement initiatives.
Partner with the Global Energy team develop financial models for forecasting and managing energy revenue and costs for the region.
Cross functional leadership:
Represent regional finance in cross-functional business initiatives ensuring financial alignment across departments.
Influence key business decisions by delivering structured financial insight to non-finance stakeholders.
Leadership and Team Management
Lead and mentor the regional finance business partnering team
Set performance goals and ensure training and development of the team members.
Governance and Risk Management:
Ensure compliance with corporate finance policies
Identify financial risks and opportunities across the assets in EMEA.
Additional Duties and Responsibilities
Support the EMEA Vice President Finance in
- Transforming the regional and sub-regional team into a high-performing business focused unit aligned with the ambitious growth objectives for the region.
- Developing and aligning business intelligence tools reporting with the global finance standard.
- Participating in financial due diligence of potential acquisitions and supporting divestment evaluations.
What youll need
- 10 years experience in commercial finance and FP&A roles preferably in data centre infrastructure telecom or real estate sectors in a cluster or regional role.
- Strong financial analysis and modelling skills are desired.
- Excellent presentation and communication abilities.
- Proven experience partnering with senior stakeholders across multiple functions.
- Familiarity with ERP systems (Yardi Oracle) and BI tools
Strong business and commercial acumen
Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills
Proactive and collaborative leadership style
Clear communicator able to influence and challenge constructively
Leadership and Team development
- Ability to manage complexity in a fast-based high growths environment
Qualifications
Bachelor or masters degree in Finance Accounting Economics or related field (MBA or professional qualification such as CIMA CPA ACCA preferred)
A bit about us
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL the companys global data center platform provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300 facilities in 50 metros across 25 countries on six continents. To learn more about Digital Realty please visit or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
What we can offer you
Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. Join us and youll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team youll get to work with people from different business areas challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. Well also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us. This is an exciting time to join our business so apply now and make your mark on our future.
Required Experience:
Exec
Employment Type
Full-Time
