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With major offices in Herndon, Denver, and Amsterdam, we have a global footprint and a unified team of employees committed to providing a premier customer experience and delivering the full spectrum of data center solutions, from core to edge, like no other data center provider can do.\nFocused on driving innovation and helping our customers define and deliver their own unique vision for the Edge, at any scale, in any market worldwide, for any requirement, we are building tomorrow’s data center infrastructure, today for some of the world’s most demanding Network, Content, and Cloud customers.\nTitle: Director of Financial Planning & Analysis\nPosition Summary\nThe Director of Financial Planning & Analysis will lead FP&A activities for the EdgeConneX and AdaniConneX joint venture in India, supporting one of the fastest-growing data center platforms in the region. This role will be based in Ahmedabad and will report to the SVP of FP&A for EdgeConneX.\nThe Director will serve as a key finance partner to the India leadership team, EdgeConneX corporate finance, AdaniConneX stakeholders, development, construction, operations, commercial, and investment teams. The role will be responsible for financial planning, forecasting, management reporting, business analysis, capital planning, performance tracking, and strategic decision support across a rapidly scaling hyperscale data center portfolio.\nKey Responsibilities\nFinancial Planning, Forecasting & Reporting\nLead the annual budgeting, long-range planning, and rolling forecast processes for the India joint venture, ensuring alignment with EdgeConneX global FP&A standards and local business priorities.\nDevelop and maintain detailed financial models covering revenue, operating expenses, EBITDA, cash flow, capital expenditures, project-level returns, debt service, and equity requirements.\nPrepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reporting packages for EdgeConneX leadership, AdaniConneX stakeholders, the joint venture leadership team, and board-level review.\nAnalyze actual performance against budget, forecast, prior periods, and investment case assumptions, identifying key drivers, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.\nEstablish and maintain financial KPIs and dashboards for the India business, including utilization, contracted capacity, revenue backlog, cost performance, project returns, power costs, operating margins, and capital deployment.\nStrategic Business Partnering\nServe as the primary FP&A partner for the India joint venture leadership team, providing financial insight to support strategic, commercial, operational, and investment decisions.\nPartner with development, construction, commercial, operations, procurement, tax, treasury, accounting, and legal teams to support data center growth initiatives across India.\nSupport business cases for new data center developments, expansions, customer deployments, land acquisitions, power infrastructure investments, and major commercial contracts.\nProvide financial analysis for customer pricing, lease economics, contract structures, power pass-through mechanisms, inflation escalation, and long-term profitability.\nTranslate complex financial information into clear, actionable insights for senior executives and non-finance stakeholders.\nCapital Planning & Project Economics\nLead financial planning and analysis for significant capital investment programs across the India data center portfolio.\nTrack project-level capital expenditures against approved budgets, construction schedules, investment committee approvals, and original underwriting assumptions.\nPartner with development and construction teams to monitor cost-to-complete, contingency usage, change orders, procurement impacts, and schedule-related financial risks.\nAssess project returns, including IRR, NPV, payback period, EBITDA contribution, cash yield, and return on invested capital.\nSupport capital allocation decisions and funding requirements for the joint venture, including equity contributions, debt financing assumptions, and cash flow planning.\nHelp establish scalable FP&A processes, controls, reporting standards, and decision-making frameworks appropriate for a fast-growing hyperscale infrastructure platform.\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, engineering, or a related field; MBA, CA, CFA, CPA, or equivalent advanced qualification preferred.\n7+ years of progressive finance experience, with significant experience in FP&A, corporate finance, investment analysis, infrastructure, real estate, data centers, telecom, energy, construction, or technology-enabled infrastructure.\nStrong financial modeling skills, including experience with long-range planning, project finance, capex modeling, cash flow forecasting, and investment return analysis.\nExperience supporting capital-intensive businesses with complex development, construction, or infrastructure investment cycles.\nStrong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, variance analysis, and business performance management.\nExperience working in a multinational company, joint venture, private equity-backed business, or high-growth infrastructure platform preferred.\nKnowledge of Indian business practices, tax, regulatory, accounting, and infrastructure development environments preferred.\nAdvanced Excel and PowerPoint skills required; experience with ERP, EPM, BI, or planning tools such as Oracle, SAP, NetSuite, Anaplan, Adaptive, Power BI, Tableau, or similar platforms preferred.\nFluency in English required; additional Indian languages are a plus.\nKey Competencies and Experience\nStrong executive presence and ability to communicate with clarity, confidence, and precision.\nHighly analytical, detail-oriented, and commercially minded.\nAbility to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.\nStrong business partnering skills and comfort working across cultures, time zones, and stakeholder groups.\nHigh integrity, discretion, and professionalism in handling sensitive financial and commercial information.\nAbility to operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-growth, capital-intensive environment.\nStrong ownership mindset with the ability to build processes, improve reporting, and drive accountability.\nCollaborative approach with the confidence to challenge assumptions and influence decision-making.\nExperience in data centers, digital infrastructure, hyperscale cloud infrastructure, telecom towers, fiber, renewable energy, logistics infrastructure, commercial real estate, or other large-scale infrastructure sectors.\nExperience with joint venture governance, shareholder reporting, investment committee processes, or private capital-backed platforms.\nFamiliarity with project finance, debt facilities, lender reporting, and capital deployment planning.\nExperience supporting businesses with large construction pipelines, long-term customer contracts, and multi-phase development projects.\nExposure to U.S.-based multinational reporting standards and global FP&A processes.\n About the Platform\nEdgeConneX is one of the largest global hyperscale data center companies in the world, with a focus on delivering scalable, high-performance digital infrastructure for leading cloud, content, network, and enterprise customers.\nAdaniConneX is one of the fastest-growing data center companies in India, focused on building a national data center platform to support the country’s accelerating digital transformation.\nTogether, the platform combines global data center expertise with deep local market knowledge, infrastructure capabilities, and growth ambition in one of the world’s most dynamic digital infrastructure markets.\nEdgeConneX believes inclusion - of thought, backgrounds and experiences - affects all that we do, from our employees to the solutions we deliver. Our goal is to create an environment where embracing differences helps deepen the lives and work experience of our employees, enhances our innovation and creativity, and enriches our involvement in our communities. EdgeConneX is an equal employment opportunity employer. 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