Senior Manager, Portfolio Management

NTT Global Data Centers • Illinois, United States of America, IL

7d • $148,600 - $215,000 • Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Advanced Excel skills (formulas, pivot tables, modeling).
• Strong PowerPoint skills for executive-ready presentations.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• 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’.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related analytical discipline (Master’s degree or MBA preferred/CFA).
• 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 required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with financial systems (e.g., SAP, Yardi) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Benefits

• annual bonus
• paid time-off
• medical
• dental
• vision benefits
• life and supplemental insurance
• short-term and long-term disability
• flexible spending account
• 401k retirement plan
• monthly stipend is provided to cover expenses associated with working remotely and use of a personal mobile device, if applicable.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior