Senior Director, Capital and Planning Analysis

Overview

The Senior Director, Capital Planning & Analysis role leads a team of Financial Analysts to provide financial modeling and business case development for new capital investment opportunities. Responsibilities include asset improvement analysis, external investor and banking analysis, and performance measurement against approved business cases. This position supports senior leadership and the global investment team to help enable expansion plans.

Responsibilities

• Establish and oversee a global business case modeling process for data center operations, ensuring consistent methodologies, modeling templates, and workflows aligned with industry standards and best practices.
• Engage with the Investment Team and parent entity to align on investment KPIs and investment performance expectations.
• Oversee development of new site business case modeling scenarios and coordinate with support functions to support new capital investment approvals.
• Create and maintain a business rhythm for ongoing monitoring and reporting of existing site business cases against actuals.
• Build Power BI dashboards to support management reporting and analytics.
• Provide business case modeling and analysis for Joint Venture activities.
• Collaborate with Global Portfolio Management to support asset improvement analysis and ongoing investor and external banking support.
• Create and maintain business case policy and process documentation.
• Continually review practices against industry best practices; collaborate with other functions to improve and automate processes.
• Support implementation of AI-enabled activities to decrease delivery time and improve analysis quality.
• Manage and develop business case modeling analyst staff to provide best-in-class business case support.
• Coordinate with regional management, other global departments, and global FP&A to obtain business case inputs.
• Support project sponsors in securing internal approvals, working closely with the Investment Committee, Land Site Selection, Construction, and the Tokyo parent company for approvals.

Requirements

• Advanced knowledge and use of Microsoft Excel required.
• Knowledge of IFRS.
• Ability to communicate complex financial/accounting terminology to non-financial personnel.
• Ability to work across different groups and levels to build consensus.
• Experience evaluating and underwriting real estate, infrastructure, or corporate finance transactions or investment opportunities.
• Advanced MS Excel, VBA, and financial modeling skills, including the ability to produce complex, multi-dimensional models from scratch.
• Advanced MS PowerPoint skills, with the ability to condense and present complex data into digestible project or opportunity memorandums for senior executive audiences.
• Strong IT skills, including use of Microsoft tools such as Word, Power BI, and Outlook.
• Comfortable working in high-pressure, fast-paced transactional environments.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• Fluent in English (written and oral).
• Ability to work across different cultures, languages, and time zones.

Preferred Qualifications

• Not specified.

Education & Experience

• Minimum 10+ years financial modeling experience and 5+ years management experience.

Compensation & Benefits

• Not specified.

Location

• Remote work majority of the time.
• 20–40% travel required, including international travel.
• Outside of US business hours will be required to accommodate international time zones.
• Ability to provide an adequate at-home work environment is required.

Physical Requirements

• Remain stationary for long periods of time.
• Operate computer, peripherals, and other office equipment.