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Trusted by leading hyperscalers and businesses, the company engineers, builds, and operates high-capacity, AI-ready campuses with speed, scale, and reliability.\nThe Finance Manager leads the Asia budgeting, forecasting and cost governance team within Global Data Centre Operations, providing financial leadership across all live and pre-live campuses in the region.\nThis role owns the consolidated Asia OPEX and minor CAPEX budget, sets the operational finance governance framework, and is the primary financial partner to the SVP DCO, Investment team and Corporate Finance on all matters relating to data centre operating costs.\nAs DayOne scales toward IPO, this role is central to strengthening the maturity, consistency and auditability of operational financial reporting across the portfolio, while building and developing a growing team of country-based budget and costing professionals.\nResponsibilities\nTeam leadership\nLead, coach and develop the Asia Budget and Costing team, comprising Country Controllers and the New Markets Analyst.\nSet team priorities, allocate workload across countries and campuses, and ensure consistent methodology and quality standards.\nBuild team capability ahead of regional growth, including onboarding as new countries and campuses come online.\nPartner with the Deputy CFO's team on the hiring pipeline for the team, including candidates from engineering or other technical backgrounds, and co-design a structured finance onboarding curriculum for non-finance hires.\nProvide direct QA oversight of team members transitioning from a technical background during their onboarding period, including formal review of their output through at least their first two to three quarter-end cycles before they sign off independently.\nAct as the escalation point for complex or cross-country financial issues raised by the team.\nBudget governance and consolidation\nOwn the consolidated Asia DCO OPEX and minor CAPEX budget, aggregating and quality-checking country-level submissions.\nOwn the annual budget planning calendar and governance cadence across all Asia campuses.\nReview and approve budget transfers and bring-forward requests ahead of submission to central Finance.\nPresent consolidated budget tracking, variance analysis and financial updates to the SVP DCO and relevant governance forums.\nForecasting and investment support\nOwn the regional cost forecasting model and cost/kW benchmarks across live and pre-live campuses.\nLead operational finance input into business cases and scenario analysis for new markets and expansion projects, working closely with the Investment team.\nEnsure forecast assumptions are robust, current and consistently applied across countries.\nFinancial and operational analysis\nOversee monthly reconciliation and COGS validation across all countries, ensuring consistency of method and control quality.\nIdentify systemic cost variance issues, cost driver trends and control gaps, and drive corrective action ownership with regional Finance and Operations stakeholders.\nProvide financial insight to support strategic and operational decision-making at SVP and regional leadership level.\nGovernance, process and IPO readiness\nOwn operational finance policies, cost ownership frameworks and approval governance across the Asia portfolio.\nStandardise budgeting, forecasting and reconciliation processes to support financial reporting maturity ahead of IPO.\nPartner with Corporate Finance, Internal Audit and GRC to ensure operational finance controls meet increasing external reporting and assurance requirements.\nStakeholder management\nAct as the primary financial partner to the SVP DCO on operating cost performance, risk and governance.\nRepresent DCO Finance in senior stakeholder forums, including with Investment, Corporate Finance and Regional Operations leadership.\nBuild strong working relationships with Country Operations Directors to ensure financial governance is embedded in day-to-day operations.\nCandidate requirements\nBachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or Business Administration; 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