The posting
Join DayOne – Shaping the Future of Data Infrastructure
DayOne is a global leader in the development and operation of high-performance data centers. As one of the fastest-growing companies in the industry, we’ve built a robust presence across Asia and Europe — and we’re just getting started.
As we expand into new international markets, we’re looking for talented, driven individuals to join us on this exciting journey. This is more than a job — it’s an opportunity to be a key contributor to our dynamic team and help shape the future of global data infrastructure.
If you're passionate about innovation, technology, and growth, we invite you to be part of DayOne’s next chapter.
The Role
The Senior Finance Manager will serve as the senior finance leader for the country and act as a trusted business partner to the APAC leadership team. The role will bridge country business priorities with global finance requirements, ensuring strong financial governance whilst enabling commercial growth and operational execution.
The successful candidate will combine strong Finance and business partnering capabilities with a deep understanding of capital-intensive infrastructure businesses, including investment evaluation, risk management, and operational finance and internal controls for large-scale development projects.
This role requires an individual who can operate effectively within a global matrix organisation, influencing stakeholders across finance, operations, construction, investments, legal, tax, treasury and executive leadership.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Finance & Business Partnership
- Act as the primary finance partner to the APAC leadership team.
- Provide financial insight and decision support on growth strategy, investments, customer opportunities and operational performance.
- Lead inputs into regional budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning and performance management processes.
- Deliver clear financial analysis and recommendations to support strategic decision making.
- Translate complex financial information into actionable business insights.
Financial Planning & Analysis
- Own country P&L, balance sheet, cash flow forecasting and financial performance reporting.
- Drive forecasting accuracy and financial discipline across country operations.
- Monitor key business drivers, capital deployment, returns and operational performance metrics.
- Support executive reporting and presentations.
Investment, Development & Deal Support
- Provide country financial inputs on new market entry, land acquisitions, customer opportunities and development projects.
- Partner with investment teams on commercial evaluations, risk assessments and financial modelling.
- Support financing discussions, lender requirements and capital allocation decisions.
Regional Finance Leadership
- Build and lead the local finance organisation as the business scales.
- Coordinate activities across accounting, tax, treasury and external advisors to provide a seamless finance partnership to the business.
- Establish scalable processes, controls and governance frameworks.
Governance, Controls & Compliance
- Ensure strong financial controls, compliance and governance
- Drive consistency in financial policies, reporting standards and internal controls.
- Partner with internal and external auditors on regional audits and compliance requirements.
Tax, Treasury & Risk Coordination
- Work closely with global tax and treasury teams to optimise local structures and financing arrangements.
- Provide commercial oversight on execution of tax, funding and risk management initiatives.
- Coordinate cross-functional financial activities to ensure effective execution and stakeholder alignment.
Stakeholder Management
- Build strong relationships across the leadership teams.
- Serve as the key finance representative for leadership discussions.
- Influence decision making across multiple stakeholder groups in a matrix environment.
- Foster strong collaboration between regional and corporate functions.
Required Experience
Essential
- 15+ years of progressive finance leadership experience.
- Proven experience leading finance within a capital-intensive industry such as:Data centres Digital infrastructure Energy & utilities Telecommunications infrastructure Industrial operations Large-scale manufacturing Real estate development
- Strong FP&A, business partnering and commercial finance experience.
- Experience supporting major capital projects and investment decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and operate within matrix organisations.
- Experience leading multi-country finance operations.
- Strong understanding of financial controls, governance and risk management.
- Professional accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CPA, CIMA or equivalent).
Preferred
- Data centre or digital infrastructure experience.
- Experience supporting hyperscale, colocation or critical infrastructure businesses.
- Exposure to project financing, debt facilities and treasury activities.
- Experience supporting international expansion and new market entry initiatives.
Leadership Profile
The ideal candidate will be:
- Equally comfortable challenging assumptions and partnering with the business.
- Commercially minded.
- Able to balance local business needs with global governance requirements.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building functions from scale-up environments.
- Pragmatic, influential and highly collaborative.
- Skilled at navigating stakeholder environments and driving alignment across multiple functions.
DayOne is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
If you're ready to grow with one of the fastest-moving companies in the data center industry, apply now and be part of our global journey.
DayOne is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
If you're ready to grow with one of the fastest-moving companies in the data center industry, apply now and be part of our global journey.
