FP&A Analyst II at Equinix in Tampa, Florida

Job Description:

FP&A Analyst II

Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 200+ data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.

We are a fast-growing global company with 70+ consecutive quarters of growth. Through our innovative portfolio of high-performance products and services, we have created the largest, most active global ecosystem of nearly 10,000 companies, including 1,800+ networks and 2,900+ cloud and IT service providers in over 26 countries spanning five continents.  

A career at Equinix means you will collaborate on work that impacts the world and be surrounded by endless opportunities to learn new skills and grow in varied directions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment. that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success. 

Equinix Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) is responsible for providing financial leadership to support and challenge decisions pertaining to the profitability and financial health of the company.  FP&A is primarily responsible for forecasting, budgeting, reporting, analysis and business partnering.  The FP&A team aims to deliver high quality, relevant, timely and accurate financial and non-financial information to enable key decision making and strategic direction.  The group is designed to provide highly motivated and skilled individuals career development opportunities at a growing company.

The FP&A Analyst 2 will support Equinix in the various quarterly forecasting and analysis both internally and externally to enable Equinix leadership to make key decisions.  This role will work with each of the regional FP&A, Corporate Finance teams and various cross functional teams to develop a consolidated view of the Equinix’s short-term forecast.  The FP&A Analyst 2 will also assist in ad hoc analysis, system upgrade implementation/testing and global forecasting accuracy improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the preparation of the monthly short-term forecast flashes and support quarterly forecasting that underpins our external guidance and Earnings




• Support annual budgeting including preparing executive level presentations




• Provides analysis for quarterly and annual revenue, cost and budget forecasts highlighting actual vs. target discrepancies and trends as appropriate




• Support adhoc budgeting, forecasting and strategic planning requests and analysis




• Assist with special projects that support corporate, global and local finance initiatives




• Provides process improvement recommendations




• Supports financial reporting and forecast variance analysis or Executive Management, including financial information, key metrics and insightful variance analysis and commentary (i.e. monthly management flashes, quarterly regional performance reviews, quarterly forecast presentations, budget presentations, etc.) for the purposes of cost and revenue analysis




• Financial Analysis-Solves problems related to the regional, functional and country complexity of our business model; analyzes possible solutions using own experience and that of the group




• Control / Compliance- Discovers and highlights data discrepancies and brings to the attention of management




• Makes recommendations as appropriate

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in finance preferred.  Experience in modeling and forecasting strongly preferred




• A strong academic background with demonstrable commercial acumen.  Bachelors in Finance or Accounting degree preferred




• Experience working for a multinational organization, in a high growth, fast paced and dynamic global technology-driven environment strongly preferred




• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the confidence to routinely interact with an executive level audience




• Hands on, can do attitude, results orientated, highly organized, detail-oriented able to handle complexity, ambiguity and time pressures




• Highly developed interpersonal style with emphasis on building strong long-term relationships particularly across various geographies and cross-functionally




• Experienced user of Microsoft Office suite of products required (Word, Excel, PowerPoint). Other financial system product experience preferred (Oracle, Hyperion planning, etc.)




• 3+ years experience in finance or related field preferred




• Bachelors degree in finance or accounting preferred

Equinix is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.