Senior Global FP&A Specialist - OPEX COS

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Your role at a glance The Senior Global FP&A Specialist - OPEX COS is responsible for analysing, consolidating, and reporting operational expenditures across the organisation’s global data centre operations. The role partners with Finance, Data Centre Operations, and regional teams to provide accurate, timely, and actionable insights into OPEX performance. The Senior Specialist performs end-to-end OPEX analysis and reporting, identifying trends, monitoring budget performance for a limited set of specific, high attention assets, and preparing reports for management and executives.

The role requires a highly experienced FP&A professional capable of delivering insights and analysis with minimal supervision.

• Communication Act as a senior financial business partner by proactively generating insights, leading strategic analyses, and representing the CoS team at senior management level while shaping key operational decisions.
• Proactively monitor, interpret, and communicate key financial and operational KPIs to influence decisions and strengthen performance management.
• Actively collaborate with business stakeholders and finance partners by initiating the collection of budgeting inputs, contract details, and cost drivers, ensuring complete and accurate financial planning.
• Support the business and other stakeholders in understanding, forecasting and budgeting operational expense for a datacenter.
• Actively collaborate within the global FP&A community by initiating knowledge sharing and contributing to the development of cross‑functional best practices.
• Performs any other relevant task as assigned by the management team.

• Deeply understand OPEX data from multiple data centres on a very granular level (supplier contracts, maintenance plans, etc.).
• Actively design and deliver monthly actual-vs-budget and forecast reporting, generating clear variance insights at a very detailed level and driving action‑oriented follow‑ups with stakeholders.
• Proactively identify, quantify, and track risks, opportunities, and performance levers to support operational business improvement.
• Proactively assess and challenge business initiatives to ensure alignment with required profitability expectations and long‑term value creation.
• Actively identify and shape cost‑management opportunities to drive sustainable operational and financial performance.
• Actively lead budget and expense reviews on a very detailed level for a few, special attention data centres, highlight variances early, and initiate cost‑optimisation opportunities.
• Performs other duties and adhoc analytics as assigned.

• Actively drive the design and continuous innovation of reporting tools and templates to ensure operational impacts and financial implications are captured transparently and effectively.
• Actively maintain, enhance, and further innovate tools and templates supporting cost analysis, forecasting, and operational decision‑making.
• Actively drive system improvements by testing, validating, and shaping enhancements across planning platforms such as SAC, SAP, and Power BI.
• Proactively contribute to system releases by initiating and executing user testing, ensuring functional and high‑quality platform improvements.

Strong expertise in FP&A processes…