Senior Director, Finance

Digital Realty Global; City Of London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global data center solutions provider is seeking an EMEA Regional Senior Finance Director. This strategic leader will partner with senior business stakeholders to enhance profitability and support sustainable growth. The ideal candidate will have a strong financial background and experience in asset-heavy sectors, with proven leadership skills. This role offers the opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment and influence key business decisions.

Benefits

Development opportunities

Supportive and inclusive environment

Qualifications

• 10 years experience in commercial finance and FP&A roles preferably in data center infrastructure, telecom or real estate sectors in a cluster or regional role.
• Proven experience partnering with senior stakeholders across multiple functions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Sales Operations Investments Portfolio Management to identify profitability improvements.
• Oversee financial insight for targeted business performance reviews.
• Lead and mentor the regional finance business partnering team.

Skills

Strong financial analysis and modelling skills

Excellent presentation and communication abilities

Strong business and commercial acumen

Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills

Proactive and collaborative leadership style

Education

Bachelor or masters degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or related field

Tools

ERP systems (Yardi, Oracle)

BI tools

Job description

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 you’ll 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

• 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 you’ll 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

Key Skills

Accounting Software, Forecasting, Ellucian, Financial Report Writing, GAAP, Accounting, Corporate Finance, Financial Analysis, Financial Modeling, Budgeting, Financial Management, Financial Planning

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1