Senior Specialist Global Financial Planning and Analysis

Your role at a glance: The role of Senior Specialist Global FP&A (Team Operations and Data Centre Analysis) is a key role within the Global Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team, reporting to the Director Global FP&A, Operations and Data Centre Analysis. The role combines responsibility for optimizing FP&A operating processes with delivering transparency for reporting data centre performance at the asset and portfolio level, ensuring both the effectiveness of planning activities and the quality of financial insights. In this role, the Senior Specialist oversees the operational functions and ensures the effective execution of the operating model for the Global FP&A department. The Senior Specialist will drive operational excellence across the monthly business rhythm and planning cycles with the aim to ensure high-quality, consistent reporting across all FP&A functions. Acting as an important liaison between FP&A teams, business stakeholders, and the parent company in Japan, the role helps ensure alignment of processes, data integrity, and the timely delivery of insights to support decision-making. In parallel, the role contributes to asset and portfolio performance management by providing transparency on results and supporting the analysis of ramp-up dynamics and lifecycle progression—from construction through operations to potential divestments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the FP&A Operating Model: Develop and drive operational excellence across end-to-end global FP&A processes, ensuring consistent and high-quality delivery of planning, forecasting, and reporting across individual assets and regions, in alignment with the defined FP&A operating model.
• Coordinate the Rhythm of Business (ROB): Support and coordinate the FP&A Rhythm of Business in close alignment with the FP&A Consolidation team, ensuring timely execution of monthly, quarterly, and annual cycles, tracking deliverables and improve cross-functional collaboration between FP&A functions.
• Process Execution & Governance: Apply and support the continuous improvement of standardized FP&A processes, templates, and governance frameworks to ensure efficiency, transparency, and consistency.
• Systems & Data Management: Manage and monitor FP&A systems and data flows (e.g., SAC planning tool, DWH, ERP interfaces, M-Cube), ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and availability, and supporting ongoing system enhancements.
• Continuous Improvement & Automation Support: Identify opportunities for process improvements, automation, and enhanced analytics, and actively contribute to the implementation of initiatives.
• Stakeholder Coordination & Alignment: Act as a key point of contact for FP&A teams, business functions, and corporate stakeholders, ensuring smooth coordination, clear communication, and alignment on deliverables.
• Executive Reporting & Analysis: Prepare and continuously enhance executive and management-level reports, delivering clear financial analysis, structured commentary, and effective visualizations.
• Asset & Portfolio Performance Analysis: Provide transparency on individual Data Centre performance by analyzing EBITDA, and effectiveness of Asset Optimisation initiatives. Also support budgeting, forecasting, and performance tracking across the asset lifecycle (construction, ramp-up, operations, divestment).
• Investor & Management Reporting Support: Support the preparation of asset- and portfolio-related reporting for internal management and as input for external stakeholder communication.
• Project & Ad-hoc Support: Contribute to cross-functional FP&A initiatives (e.g., benchmarking, deep-dives, business cases, transformation projects) and provide analytical support for complex business questions.

Knowledge & Attributes:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, finance, economics, or a related field required.
• MBA or a master's degree in finance, economics, or a related discipline is highly preferred.
• Multiple years of relevant high-level Financial and Capital Planning/ FP&A experience.
• Advanced experience in a similar position in a related environment.
• Advanced experience with MS office and data warehouse tools.
• Advanced experience with workday or other HR tools.
• Advanced demonstrable extensive experience within finance in a company with international operations.
• Proven experience in FP&A, controlling, or financial systems management.
• Ability to support and adapt to process changes and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Basic understanding of investor relations and related reporting requirements.
• Sound knowledge of GAAP, IFRS, and key financial performance indicators.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders across different functions and organizational levels.
• Hands-on, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability for own deliverables and their impact on overall team outcomes.
• Ability to translate financial data into clear and understandable insights for business stakeholders.
• Structured, detail-oriented, and proactive mindset with a strong focus on quality and accuracy.
• Solid financial knowledge with a strong focus on analysis and execution.
• Excellent English written and oral communication skills.

Who we are: As the third largest data centre provider, we operate over 150 data centres in more than 20 countries and regions. We understand that every business has its own unique needs and goals. We offer local-to-global data centre expertise, aligned with our connected platform of AI-ready data centres to create solutions that enable our clients to seamlessly scale their digital businesses, anywhere and anytime.