Manager, Finance

Digital Realty; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 108,000 - 163,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Realty is seeking a Finance Manager to lead financial analysis and budgeting initiatives for the North America Finance team. You will consolidate data, build models, and deliver insights to senior leadership to influence strategic decisions.

You will own monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting, drive forecasts, and partner with Portfolio Management and Operations to optimize financial performance. A strong Excel, Power BI, and data- driven mindset is essential.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a similar field.
• 5+ years of experience in a senior financial analyst role or similar professional experience.
• Prior experience working with and/or maintaining financial models.
• A strong understanding of and ability to create financial reports and analyses.
• The ability to think strategically, work with data and numbers, and provide thoughtful analysis.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain financial models to support strategic initiatives.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports.
• Conduct variance analysis and provide insights into financial performance.
• Coordinate forecasting and budgeting processes across the Portfolio Management Group and Operations.
• Partner with other departments to provide financial and statistical insights and support decision-making.
• Collaborate with senior management to develop financial strategies and initiatives.
• Perform ad hoc statistical analysis to support key business decisions.
• Work with the FP&A team to develop a world-class budgeting and forecasting approach.

Skills

Financial analysis

Budgeting

Forecasting

Collaboration

Strategic thinking

Excel

PowerBI

PowerPoint

CoPilot

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting/Business

Tools

Oracle Essbase

PowerBI

MS Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

The role

The Finance Manager is a high-impact leader within the North America Finance team.This role is responsible for providing financial analysis and insights to drive tactical and strategic decision making, preparation and execution of the annual budget, quarterly reforecasting, long-range planning, and ad-hoc statistical analysis. You will be charged with consolidating financial information, performing analysis and relaying it back to our business partners, including senior and executive leadership.

What you’ll do

Develop and maintain financial models to support strategic initiatives

Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports

Conduct variance analysis and provide insights into financial performance

Coordinate forecasting and budgeting processes across the Portfolio Management Group and Operations

Partner with other departments to provide financial and statistical insights and support decision-making

Collaborate with senior management to develop financial strategies and initiatives

Perform ad hoc statistical analysis to support key business decisions

Work with the FP&A team to develop a world-class budgeting and forecasting approach, including but not limited to: communication, calendar management, input templates, analysis, reporting, transparency, and accuracy.

What you’ll need

A Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a similar field

5+ years of experience in a senior financial analyst role or similar professional experience

Prior experience working with and/or maintaining financial models

A strong understanding of and ability to create financial reports and analyses

A true entrepreneurial spirit is valuable in this role as you’ll be expected to provide your ideas, be ready in driving the function, and have a hand in creating processes and procedures

The ability to think strategically, to work with data and numbers, and to provide thoughtful, detailed analysis

A cooperative spirit and the ability to collaborate with teams across the organization

A high degree of comfort with technology, including the ability to learn new software and systems quickly and to work through technical issues (e.g. Oracle Essbase, PowerBI)

Very strong skills in MS Excel, PowerPoint, and CoPilot

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 company’s 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.

Our Finance team works in one of the world’s fastest growing and most exciting business sectors. We use our financial expertise and commercial awareness to support and develop an international, publicly-listed organization. From managing budgets to financial planning, we deliver a full range of finance and accounting services to help our business stay on track and meet our goals. We also have other specialist areas of expertise including Portfolio Management and Lease Administration.

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’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.

Our published pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and geographical location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including but not limited to job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. Moreover, an employee’s total compensation package varies by role and may include salary, cash bonus or commissions, and equity awards not quantified below.

Compensation range : $107,800 - $163,000 annually This compensation range represents the Company’s good faith belief as to what it will pay as a base salary for this position at the time of this posting.

NOTES:

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.

Digital Realty is an equal opportunity employer, EOE/AA/M/F/Vets/Disabled. All applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or other status protected by law or Company policy.

Digital Realty is a publicly traded company (NYSE: DLR) with investment grade ratings from all three major ratings agencies.