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Director, Portfolio Management at NTT Global Data Centers

Director, Portfolio Management

NTT Global Data Centers · Illinois

3 weeks ago

Director, Portfolio Management

NTT Global Data Centers · Illinois

23 days ago
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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.