Senior Manager, Portfolio Management

The Senior Manager, Portfolio Management plays a critical leadership role within Global Portfolio Management, responsible for structuring, executing, and actively managing third-party investment vehicles covering private joint ventures and REIT structures. The role spans the full development lifecycle—from origination and feasibility through financing, construction, delivery, and stabilization. The position serves as a strategic partner to investors, senior leadership, and key internal functions including Finance, Legal, Construction, Design, and Power.

• KEY responsibilities
• Joint Venture & Investor Management
• Support 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
• Financial Modelling, Risk Management, Development Finance
• Support financial and financing models including base case, downside scenarios, covenant headroom and sensitivity analyses, in cooperation from the Business Model team
• 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
• Financing & Capital Structure
• Support project finance and corporate financing processes for new and existing data center assets, including initial bank financings, refinancings, and amendments
• Coordinate the commercial and legal negotiation of financing packages, including debt terms, covenants, security structures, and conditions precedent, in coordination with Legal and advisors
• Coordinate and support hedging strategies (interest rate swaps, caps, floors), including interaction with treasury, hedging advisors, and lenders
• Help manage liquidity, debt levels, covenant compliance, reporting obligations, compliance, and lender interactions under SFAs and ancillary agreements
• Reporting, Governance & Decision Support
• 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
• Coordinate JV areas 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
• Asset Management & Operational Support
• Oversee the day-to-day asset management of one stabilized S-REIT asset, ensuring operational performance, compliance, and execution of asset-level business plans
• Serve as the primary point of contact for lease-related matters, procurement requests, and key asset-level stakeholder coordination
• Coordinate and ensure the timely preparation and delivery of monthly asset reporting, including financial, operational, and performance updates
• Provide coverage and support for other S-REIT Asset Managers during periods of vacation, illness, or other absences, ensuring continuity of asset management activities and stakeholder communication
• KNOWLEDGE & ATTRIBUTES
• 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’.
• ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS & CERTIFICATIONS
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related analytical discipline (Master’s degree or MBA preferred/CFA).
• REQUIRED EXPERIENCE
• Minimum 7 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 centers, energy, infrastructure, or large-scale development projects is
• PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
• 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.
• Work conditions & other requirements
• This position is expected to be remote for the foreseeable future with an occasional need to be onsite in a shared work environment.
• Must have flexible work schedule to accommodate across global business hours
• Travel will be required, up to 10%