FP&A Senior Analyst

Equinix offers an exciting opportunity for a Senior Analyst to join our EMEA Regional Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team. This role supports the Regional FP&A Manager responsible for GMPO and M&A reporting in EMEA, including JV reporting, monthly/quarterly flux reporting, M&A/integrations support, forecasting, budgeting, and providing finance support to functional leaders.

Responsibilities

Process ownership and Finance support for functional leaders

• Work alongside the FP&A Manager to prepare standard monthly/quarterly reporting and commentary on key financials for Senior Management, as well as ad-hoc analyses to quickly respond to stakeholder questions as they arise.
• Collaborate with a Senior Analyst to provide general reporting and support for the EMEA GMPO function, including helping with Month End and assisting with Budgeting and Forecasting processes as needed.
• Support the Regional FP&A Manager with information requests, including Long Term Model (LTM) updates, impairment analysis, and other ad hoc queries.
• Support the wider GMPO Finance organisation with ad hoc requests.
• Work alongside an Analyst to support EMEA JV Reporting, including preparing month-end reports, coordinating forecasts, and engaging with JV partners to provide financial results.
• Coordinate inputs and prepare presentations to be delivered to Senior EMEA, Corporate leaders, and JV Board.
• Provide general M&A project support as needed, including data collection for potential new deals and supporting the team with tasks related to setting up operations in new markets or integration of an acquired business.
• Provide finance integration support as needed, including coordinating inputs to help M&A project track leaders understand and manage costs within budget and support their decision making within the organization.
• Prepare for and participate in review meetings with M&A project track leads and finance leadership teams and follow up on action items.

Process improvement

• Proactively review how we can simplify and improve timeliness of reporting, without compromising accuracy, by suggesting system enhancements, report automation, and process improvements to eliminate roadblocks.
• Regularly review the shape and form of information provided to management and strive for continuous improvement to maintain relevancy.

Other responsibilities

• Strong business partnering skills essential to proactively support the Senior Management team, M&A teams, and Corporate Development with business decisions, building strong working relationships within the business.
• Participate in the continued development of budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning, and modeling tools.
• Solve problems related to the regional, functional, and country complexity of our business model.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (Finance or Accounting) with 5-7 years relevant experience
• CPA, ACCA or equivalent is a plus
• Fluent in English (both spoken and written)
• Strong numerical, writing, and analytical skills with attention to detail
• Ability to work well independently and in groups
• Ability to perform multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities
• Strong communication & presentation skills with the ability to engage with senior business leaders
• Advanced Excel & PowerPoint skills
• Experience with Hyperion preferred