About the Role
The Director, Portfolio Management plays a critical leadership role within Global Portfolio Management, responsible for structuring, executing, and actively managing third-party investment in U.S. greenfield data centre assets. The role spans the full development lifecycle—from origination and feasibility through financing, construction, delivery, and stabilisation. The position serves as a strategic partner to investors, senior leadership, and key internal functions including Finance, Legal, Construction, Design, and Power.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the financial performance of JV and assets, including development entities
- Support equity processes, shareholder funding, and distributions
- Ensure compliance with key agreements, including JV, funding, operator, and third‑party covenants
- Assess the financial impact of key business decisions related to JVs, customer contracts, suppliers, pricing, and development timing
- Lead, together with relevant teams, asset‑level financial strategies to ensure sustainable financing, liquidity, and compliance
- Oversee financial and financing models including base case, downside scenarios, covenant headroom and sensitivity analyses
- Ensure the team aligns models with development progress, leasing assumptions, capex phasing, and financing structures
- Assess and communicate financial risks, mitigants, and downside scenarios to senior management and investors
- Challenge development business cases (IRR, NPV, yields, cost curves) for greenfield and expansion projects
- Analyse liquidity requirements, and funding sources across multi‑year development plans
- Act as partner to internal teams and external investors on strategies, and investment decision‑making
- Lead project finance and corporate financing processes for new and existing data center assets, including initial bank financings, refinancings, and amendments
- Lead the commercial and legal negotiation of financing packages, including debt terms, covenants, security structures, and conditions precedent
- Coordinate and support hedging strategies (interest rate swaps, caps, floors)
- Own financing‑related workstreams with lenders, their advisors, shareholders, and internal stakeholders
- Manage liquidity, debt levels, covenant compliance, reporting obligations, compliance, and lender interactions under SFAs and ancillary agreements
- Prepare and present board‑level and investor reporting, providing clear and pragmatic financial insights to support investment and development decisions
- Support audits, lender reviews, and due diligence processes
- Manage or oversee JV finance functions including budgeting, cash management, planning, accounting coordination, year‑end closing, and reporting
- Act as a business partner, not only a reporting function, actively challenging assumptions and supporting decision‑making
- Calculate and track global cost allocations to different regions
Requirements
- Minimum 10–12 years of relevant experience in infrastructure, real estate, private equity, investment banking, or project finance
- Proven experience working with institutional investors, joint ventures, and complex capital structures
- Strong track record in financial modelling, valuation, and investment analysis
- Experience in data centres, energy, infrastructure, or large-scale development projects is a plus
- Primarily sitting with some walking, standing, and bending
- Able to hear and speak into a telephone
- Close visual work on a computer terminal
- Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate any required computer keyboard, mouse, and other technical instruments
- Able to lift and carry up to 20 lbs
- Able to climb a ladder and work on a raised platform
- Must have flexible work schedule to accommodate across global business hours
Skills
- Advanced Excel skills (formulas, pivot tables, modeling)
- Strong PowerPoint skills for executive-ready presentations
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Experience with financial systems (e.g., SAP, Yardi) is a plus
- Ability to work independently and cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines
- Act as a ‘business partner’
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Director
- 10-12 years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related analytical discipline
- Master’s degree or MBA preferred
- CFA preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $160,700.00 - $248,800.00
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Paid time-off
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Life insurance
- Supplemental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- 401k retirement plan
- Monthly stipend for remote work expenses
About the Company
- NTT Global Data Centers is the third largest data center provider, operating over 150 data centers in more than 20 countries and regions.
- We offer local-to-global data center expertise, aligned with our connected platform of AI-ready data centers to create solutions that enable our clients to seamlessly scale their digital businesses, anywhere and anytime.
- Our diverse, inspiring workforce is the heart and soul of our company, providing the best experience for our clients every day.
- By bringing together our global capabilities and local expertise, we help our clients achieve their goals, anywhere in the world.
- Together, we can accomplish the extraordinary and work to create a more sustainable world with rewarding benefits for everyone - clients, employees, investors, partners, and communities.
Equal Opportunity
- NTT Global Data Centers is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a global culture that embraces diversity.
- We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment.
- We do not discriminate based on age, race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, disability, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected category.
