Manager, xScale Finance Transformation & Service Enablement
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Job Summary
Equinix is seeking a results-oriented Manager to join the xScale Finance Transformation & Service Enablement team. In this role, you will lead the design and delivery of process improvement and transformation initiatives across xScale Finance. You will translate ambiguous business problems into clear, prioritized, well-managed initiatives and apply a practical, hands-on approach to using technology and process re-engineering to reduce manual effort. This delivery-focused role offers meaningful exposure to senior Finance leaders.
Responsibilities
Lead finance process transformation
- Assess current-state processes across Finance (Accounts Payable, Billing & Collections, Tax, Treasury, FP&A, Controllership), identify pain points and root causes, and design practical future-state processes
- Lead discovery with Finance and business leaders, translating ambiguous requests into clear business requirements, success measures, and delivery plans
- Apply structured improvement methods (process mapping, root-cause analysis) to reduce cycle time, manual effort, errors, and control gaps
- Ensure future-state processes and solutions maintain appropriate financial controls, governance, and documentation
Drive automation and AI enablement
- Identify, assess, and prioritize automation opportunities, and help to develop the business case
- Partner with Finance and Data & Analytics teams to design, build, test, and deploy technology enabled solutions
- Support the responsible rollout of AI tools and use cases within Finance, including defining use cases, running pilots, and measuring adoption and impact
Lead project delivery
- Manage transformation initiatives from planning through implementation, adoption, and benefits tracking
- Maintain project plans, risks, dependencies, status reporting, and executive updates
- Build alignment across Finance, business, and technology stakeholders, facilitating decisions and resolving competing priorities
Enable demand intake and prioritization
- Participate in key intake and prioritization activities, ensuring proper governance is applied across requested, prioritized, delivered, and measured initiatives
- Contribute to project-level reporting so leadership can see the status, value, and capacity behind the transformation pipeline
Lead change and engagement activities
- Deliver change management, communications, training, and user readiness to ensure new processes and tools are adopted and sustained
Qualifications
Experience
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business, information systems, or a related field
- 6-8 years of experience in finance transformation, process improvement, finance operations, consulting, or a related field
- Experience in a real estate, data center, infrastructure, or joint venture environment is considered an asset
Skills & Capabilities
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional process improvement or transformation projects from concept through delivery
- Strong understanding of core Finance processes and controls
- Experience with, or strong working knowledge of AI enablement in a business setting, such as generative AI tools, Copilot solutions, or other use case pilots
- Proven project management skills, including planning, risk management, and status reporting
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence without formal authority
- Technical curiosity and the ability to bridge Finance and technology teams
- Strong ownership, follow-through, and attention to detail
Preferred
- Professional designation (CPA, CA, CMA, ACCA) and/or PMP certification
- Lean Six Sigma certification or equivalent process improvement training
- Experience with ERP and finance systems (such as Oracle) and reporting tools
- Experience with low-code tools (such as Power Apps) or analytics tools (such as Power BI)
Equinix Benefits
As an employee, you become important to Equinix's success. We ensure all your benefits are in line with our core values: competitive, inclusive, sustainable, connected and efficient. We keep them competitive within the current marketplace to ensure we're providing you with the best package possible. So, wherever you are in your career and life, you'll be able to enhance your experience and bring your whole self to work.
Employee Assistance Program: An Employee Assistance program is available to all employees.
Canada Core Benefits: - Insurance: You may enroll in healthcare coverage that is designed to complement the provincial healthcare system, along with life, disability and optional benefit plans that are designed for you and your eligible family members. - Retirement: You may also enroll in Equinix-sponsored retirement or savings plans: Defined Contribution Pension Plan (DCPP), Group Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) and Tax-Free Savings Plan (TSFA). - Vacation and Paid Holidays: Equinix offers both vacation and personal time, along with various paid holidays for you to rest and recharge. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits. Benefits are subject to specific plan or program terms, and to change at Equinix discretion.
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This posting is for a backfill position, meaning it is to fill an existing vacancy within our organization.