Senior Finance Manager

About DayOne Data Centers

DayOne Data Centers is a Singapore-headquartered global digital infrastructure platform that develops and operates next-generation data centers across Asia Pacific and Europe. Trusted by leading hyperscalers and businesses, the company engineers, builds, and operates high-capacity, AI-ready campuses with speed, scale, and reliability.

About DayOne

Behind every app, every AI tool, every connected experience, there is a data center. DayOne builds them. In Malaysia, we run the functions that keep a global company moving. DayOne's Global Shared Services Center in Kuala Lumpur supports our operations across finance, accounting, investment, procurement, and corporate functions, integrating Malaysian talent directly into a platform operating across seven countries. Phase II is underway, and we are growing the team. 

About 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.

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.

Requirements

• 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).

Good To Have

• 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.

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.

Why DayOne

Working at DayOne's Global Shared Services Center (GSSC) in Kuala Lumpur means doing genuinely global work. The decisions you support across finance, procurement, and corporate operations connect directly to data center campuses being built across Asia-Pacific and Europe. You will have real scope, a clear path for growth, and 40+ training hours per year in an organisation that sees Malaysia as a core part of how we operate worldwide. 

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.