Corporate Real Estate Analyst - Jobs in Toronto, ON

Job Description

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 today 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 75+ 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.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 CRETwo thirds of Equinix’s 12,000 staff are supported from a portfolio of 60+ offices worldwide.The acquisition, design, construction, management and evolution of these spaces falls to Equinix’s Corporate Real Estate (CRE) team.CRE seeks to improve Equinix every day with a better workplace: one that is caring, cool and smart.

• Caring for the staff of Equinix and each person they invite into our spaces
• Creating environments and experiences that are inviting, effective and elegant
• Relentlessly pursuing and applying winning concepts in corporate real estate, having created ‘hybrid’ working years ahead of industry peers

Job SummaryThe CRE Senior Analyst is pivotal to the smooth running and recognized value of the CRE team.Reporting to the Global Head of CRE, the role acts as the subject matter expert across all financial and data analyses, enabling both tactical and strategic decision-making.

• Build the cashflow analysis for strategic scenario comparison ahead of quarterly governance meetings with the Global C-Suite Exec team
• Oversee CRE’s global budgets - $70m Opex and $40m Capex - through forecasting activities during the year ensuring they are prepared, tracked and maintained
• Lead monthly triage of outstanding approvals (location approvals, purchase orders etc.) for all three regions: Americas, APAC & EMEA
• Own the analysis and benchmarking of CRE data across staffing, cost, utilization, and workplace design projects
• Build and track a rolling 3-year forecast of anticipated projects, feeding into the Governance and annual Budgeting processes
• Collate savings data through the year to support the following year’s budget request
• Tracking CRE team headcount according to the company’s FP&A framework
• Partner with internal stakeholders including, but not limited to:

• The three Regional CRE Operations Directors (the ‘CREDs’)
• CRE Programs and Communications Sr Manager in coordinating the governance calendar
• CRE Vendor Manager in the prioritization of VM initiatives
• CRE Design & Construction Manager in requesting cost estimates for projects and budgeting

Candidate profile:The successful candidate will have the following attributes:

• 4+ years of CRE relevant experience of financial appraisals, budget supervision, and data analysis
• Professional qualification in CRE, Workplace or equivalent experience
• Located in one of these metros: Amsterdam, London, Warsaw, Dallas, Toronto, Tampa, Singapore, Bangalore, Manila
• High quality professional English essential, with other conversation-level language skills an advantage
• Open to occasional travel 1-2 times per year

Required skills

• Experience of real estate cash flow appraisals across several geographies
• Affinity with data crunching in excel and one or more of the main data visualization packages (Power BI, Tableau etc.)
• Appetite for driving fact-based decision-making between strategic scenarios

Preferred skills

• Experience of working in a multinational corporation environment in more than one geography
• Exposure to reporting on carbon footprint and other sustainability metrics
• Some exposure to using Oracle or other ERP systems, potentially including use of Hyperion

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