Senior Director of DIO FP&A, Equinix
CA$182-272k
Plus bonus. Salary shown is for Canadian applicants
Digital infrastructure company
Posted today
Digital infrastructure company
1001+ employees
Posted today
CA$182-272k
Plus bonus. Salary shown is for Canadian applicants
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide finance, manufacturing, transport, government, and healthcare organizations a cloud-first world.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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, anda transformation initiatives
- As a trusted advisor, the role delivers actionable insights, challenges assumptions, identifies optimization opportunities, and drives financial discipline across the DIO function
- 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
- 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, operate business cases for technology portfolio
- 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
Our take
Equinix is a veteran player in the digital infrastructure market, connecting industry-leading organizations in finance, manufacturing, retail, transportation, government, healthcare, and education.
The company provides a range of services within the categories of digital, support, data center, and interconnection, with capabilities including, for example, simplifying hybrid cloud deployments or securing on-site deployments. It has an extensive range of partners, granting its clients access to a vast range of industry-leading technologies atop its own offerings.
With a wide global presence, Equinix has secured a path to continued success by its ability to keep abreast of developments in the space. The company is comfortably positioned to remain a robust and leading player across multiple growth avenues and can be expected to make more smart developments and partnerships in the future.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Adaire Fox-Martin
(CEO & President)Prior to becoming CEO of Equinix in 2024, Adaire spent nearly 3 years at Google in various roles, including Head of Google Ireland and President of Google Cloud Go to Market. She also spent nearly 14 years at SAP and over 18 years at Oracle Corporation.
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