Senior Director, Finance

Digital Realty Global; Greater London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data centre solutions provider in the United Kingdom is seeking an EMEA Regional Senior Finance Director to partner with senior stakeholders in finance. This role involves driving profitability improvements, overseeing budget forecasts, and developing financial insights. Candidates should have a strong background in commercial finance with at least 10 years of experience and leadership capabilities. This position offers opportunities for significant impact and career growth in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Development opportunities

Supportive work environment

Inclusive culture

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in commercial finance and FP&A roles.
• Strong financial analysis and modeling skills.
• Proven experience partnering with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Drive profitability improvements and cost optimization.
• Develop performance dashboards and metrics.
• Oversee budget forecasting and financial plans.

Skills

Financial analysis

Financial modeling

Presentation skills

Commercial acumen

Collaborative leadership

Education

Bachelor's or master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics

Tools

ERP systems (Yardi, Oracle)

Business Intelligence tools

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 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 capital expenditure repair and maintenance spend and energy costs.
• Conduct deep dives into business performance and provide actionable insights on revenue cost drivers leasing inventory management capital expenditure / operating expenditure 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 centre colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL the company’s global data centre 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 centre 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 you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team you’ll get to work with people from different business areas challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We 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.

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

Vacancy: 1