Corporate Development Senior Manager

Description

• Supports the storyboarding of presentations to drive discussion at the Senior Executive level
• Evaluate, develop, negotiate and recommend execution of JV opportunities
• Develops transaction timelines
• Communicates with stakeholders to ensure alignment on active deal pipeline and cross-functional team resourcing
• Engage with working group team members to identify, catalogue, document, and make recommendations to more senior team members
• Direct, coach and mentor more junior team members or internal partners with less M&A experience
• Support development of each M&A thesis (the "why")
• Help develop real estate strategies and support capex forecasts on planned development
• Partner with Integration team to ensure effective post-close integration that results in execution of investment theses and investment objectives (i.e., operating performance, financial performance, cultural)
• Develop expertise and judgment related to various geographies and their respective data center ecosystems
• Develop and present business cases to investment committees
• Prepare for, and facilitate, cross-departmental meetings as needed (e.g., due diligence)
• Support development and evaluate various analyses and support analysis for other business units including M&A, Strategy, Business Development, and others
• Drive development of business cases for organic investment for densification of current Metro footprints and expansions to new campuses; driving and overseeing financial modeling
• Develop operational models and synergy forecasts for targets
• Drive acquisitions of single assets, companies/portfolios and powered-land/site platforms
• Develop deal valuation frameworks including comparable companies, precedent transactions, discounted cash flow and related investment return valuation models; and pro forma accretion/dilution analyses
• Analyze and recommend prioritization of new-build investments and Identify business cases for new development
• Develop asset management optimization strategies, including expansion, contraction, disposition, and reconfiguration of properties
• Develop recommendations for improving financial analysis methodology
• Support near- and long-term capacity plans and the maintenance of inventory roadmaps
• Engage across the full deal lifecycle—thesis and market mapping; valuation and returns modeling; diligence orchestration (e.g., commercial, operations, real estate, design & construction, finance, integration, HR, IT, power, regulatory, REIT/tax, etc.); structuring/negotiation; close; and pre-close
• Actively follow and analyze deal activity in areas of interest to Equinix
• Project-manage holistic case-development alongside Commercial Finance, Design & Construction, Legal, Sales, Operations and other key functional partners

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree preferred; MBA or CFA a plus
• 7+ years of relevant business experience, preferably in Investment Banking/Top tier Management consulting/Corporate Finance/Corporate Development at a leading technology company; digital infrastructure experience preferred, particularly including data centers

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance