Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, enabling the innovations that enrich our work, life and planet.
A career at Equinix means being at the center of shaping what comes next and amplifying customer value through innovation and impact. You’ll work across teams, influence key decisions, and help shape the path forward.
Job Summary
The Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis (DIO Finance) serves as the strategic finance leader supporting the Digital and Innovation Organization. This role partners closely with the Chief Digital and Innovation Officer (CDIO) and DIO leadership team to provide financial leadership, planning, forecasting, investment analysis, and decision support that enable successful execution of the technology strategy.
The Senior Director leads a team of finance professionals globally responsible for managing the financial performance of the DIO organization, including operating expenses, capital investments, technology portfolios, workforce and capacity planning, vendor spend, and transformation initiatives. As a trusted advisor, the role delivers actionable insights, challenges assumptions, identifies optimization opportunities, and drives financial discipline across the DIO function.
Responsibilities
Strategic Business Partnership
- Serve as the primary finance partner to the CDIO and DIO leadership team. Support development and execution of the organization’s technology strategy through financial planning and analysis.
- Provide financial insights and recommendations to support strategic decision-making, investment trade-offs, and funding priorities.
- Lead annual budgeting, quarterly forecasts, and long-range planning processes for the DIO organization.
- Translate complex technical and financial detail into concise, executive- and board-ready narratives, including value framing, funding asks, and risk trade-offs.
Technology Investment Management
- Evaluate business cases for technology investments, digital transformation initiatives, infrastructure modernization, cybersecurity programs, enterprise systems, and AI investments.
- Assess alternatives, expected returns, and benefits realization to support resource allocation decisions.
- Provide financial oversight of labor, infrastructure, cloud, software, and vendor spending.
- Able to generate, assess, and operate business cases for technology portfolio.
Performance Reporting, Analytics & Decision Support
- Develop dashboards, scorecards, and executive reporting to monitor financial and operational performance.
- Conduct scenario modeling, investment analysis, and decision support for strategic initiatives and technology roadmaps.
- Partner with Corporate FP&A, Accounting, Procurement, HR, Project Management Office, and Finance Transformation teams to align plans and governance.
Qualifications
- 15+ years of progressive finance experience, including significant FP&A or business finance leadership responsibilities.
- CPA, CFA, MBA a plus.
- Experience supporting Information Technology organizations or technology-intensive functions.
- Demonstrated success partnering with senior business leaders to influence investment and operational decisions.
- Strong expertise in budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and business case development.
- Experience leading and developing high-performing geographically spread finance teams.
- Experience supporting cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, enterprise systems, digital transformation, or software development organizations.
- Knowledge of technology financial management principles, including CapEx, OpEx, software engineering capitalization, cloud economics, and vendor management.
Benefits
As an employee, you become important to Equinix’s success. We ensure benefits are competitive and designed to support employees throughout their career and life.
Employee Assistance Program
An Employee Assistance Program is available to all employees.
US Benefits
- Insurance: You may enroll in health, life, disability, and voluntary plans designed for you and your eligible family members.
- Retirement: You and Equinix may contribute to a retirement plan to help you plan for your financial future.
- Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays: You will receive an accrued amount of PTO each pay period along with various paid holidays for rest and recharge.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific plan or program terms.
Canada Core Benefits
- Insurance: You may enroll in healthcare coverage designed to complement the provincial healthcare system, along with life, disability, and optional benefit plans for you and your eligible family members.
- Retirement: You may also enroll in Equinix-sponsored retirement or savings plans: Defined Contribution Pension Plan (DCPP), Group Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), and Tax-Free Savings Plan (TFSA).
- Vacation and Paid Holidays: Equinix offers both vacation and personal time, along with various paid holidays for rest and recharge.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits. Benefits are subject to specific plan or program terms and may change at Equinix discretion.