FP&A Analyst: Strategic Forecasting & Insights

Equinix; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Equinix is seeking a Finance professional in FP&A to provide financial leadership, forecasting, budgeting and reporting. You will partner with business leaders to challenge decisions and support strategic direction.

Responsibilities include quarterly revenue and cost forecasting, variance analysis, and creating executive-facing reporting with insights and commentary. A strong analytical mindset and communication skills are essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting is preferred.
• Proven years of experience in finance or related field preferred.
• Strong analytical and communication skills are essential.

Responsibilities

• Provides analysis for quarterly and annual revenue, cost and budget forecasts.
• Highlights actual vs. target discrepancies and trends as appropriate.
• Creates corporate, product, operations and sales financial reporting documents for Executive Management, including financial information, key metrics and insightful variance analysis and commentary.
• Provides process improvement recommendations.
• Shares insights with business leaders and Finance management as appropriate to improve business operations.
• Solves problems related to the regional, functional and country complexity of our business model; analyzes possible solutions using own experience and that of the group.
• Discovers and highlights data discrepancies and brings to the attention of management.
• Makes recommendations as appropriate.
• Calculates commissions and sales bonus, aggregates data, and completes analysis required for creation of accrual.

Skills

Financial analysis

Budget forecasting

Variance analysis

Financial reporting

Process improvement

Business partnering

Data discrepancy detection

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting

Job description

Equinix is seeking a Finance professional in FP&A to provide financial leadership, forecasting, budgeting and reporting. You will partner with business leaders to challenge decisions and support strategic direction.

Responsibilities include quarterly revenue and cost forecasting, variance analysis, and creating executive-facing reporting with insights and commentary. A strong analytical mindset and communication skills are essential for success in this role.