Senior Analyst, Asset Management & New Markets

Want to be a part of Asia Pacific & Middle East's (APME) largest, most innovative, and rapidly growing data centre company?

AirTrunk is a hyperscale data centre company with a powerful purpose - to scale and sustain the relentless growth of the region’s digital future. We do this by continuously redefining and delivering the digital infrastructure that meet the needs of our customers - the world’s most transformational companies. And we’re doing so sustainably, for today and tomorrow.

Having opened Australia’s first and largest hyperscale data centres in 2017, we set our eyes on rapid expansion and now operate a platform of hyperscale data centres across the APME region. With backing from our investors, including Blackstone, this is just the beginning…

Come join the A-Team at AirTrunk, where the cloud meets the ground.

Your Impact

As the Senior Analyst, Asset Management & New Markets, based in our HQ in Sydney, you will report to the Senior Director, Asset Business Management and work closely with leadership and teams across Operations, Asset Business Management, Finance, Corporate Development, Design, Tech Ops, Procurement, Contract Management, Asset Information and Project Implementation across APJ and KSA.

You will lead the development of the operational cost management capability, including strategic cost leadership across new deals, operating models, capital works, asset lifecycle decisions and portfolio optimisation. You will establish high-level processes, review outputs and guide the supporting Property Analyst/Cost Manager responsible for detailed business-case support and capital-works cost estimation.

The role combines commercial analysis, operational understanding and stakeholder leadership to ensure that AirTrunk has robust cost information for investment decisions, approved budgets, project delivery and ongoing asset performance.

What You'll Do

• Strategic cost leadership: Lead the Property cost management framework, standards, governance and high-level review processes across business cases, capital works and operational cost analysis. 

• Business-case pipeline: Own and lead the end-to-end pipeline for new-site, expansion and customer business cases, including scope review, operating-model assessment, OPEX/CAPEX estimation, financial modelling, benchmarking, risks, assumptions and executive-ready recommendations. 

• Operating models: Build and support new operating models for GW large sites and customer expansions, including COSH, Full Cloud, Dark Site and other service models across Australia, Japan, India and KSA. 

• Strategic infrastructure analysis: Lead CIB, AI-related infrastructure and other emerging-model analysis, assessing alternative operating, technical and service solutions and their cost, capacity, risk and commercial implications. 

• New-market integration: Support market entry and integration activities through financial and business-case reviews, cost research, operating-model analysis and recommendations new regions.  

• TCO frameworks: Work with Procurement and Tech Ops to develop and apply Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) frameworks across the asset lifecycle, from design and procurement through operations, maintenance, refurbishment and replacement. 

• Cost optimisation: Identify and assess cost-optimisation opportunities and their operational impacts, including maintenance strategies, condition-based maintenance, sourcing options, service scopes, resource models and lifecycle decisions. 

• Capital-works cost management: Lead and support to build the framework for capital-project cost management, including scope-based cost blocks, estimating standards, vendor pricing, benchmarks, budget planning, change control and cost tracking through implementation. 

• Team leadership and review: Provide functional leadership, coaching and quality review for the Property Analyst/Cost Manager, who will support detailed business cases and estimate, benchmark and track capital-works costs across current and future programs. 

• Stakeholder engagement: Coordinate cross-functional inputs and challenge assumptions constructively to ensure that cost estimates reflect design, technical, operational, security, energy, contractual and customer requirements. 

• Portfolio performance: Lead analysis of financial and operating performance, property cost trends, asset lifecycle requirements and opportunities to improve portfolio returns, margins and cost transparency. 

• Reporting and decision support: Prepare clear analysis, dashboards, reports and presentations for Finance, Corporate Development, Operations, Asset Business Managmenet leadership and executive stakeholders. 

• Process improvement: Continuously improve cost data, reporting, modelling tools and ways of working to increase consistency, efficiency, traceability and decision quality. 

Key Accountabilities

• Quality and governance: Ensure cost models, assumptions, benchmarks and recommendations are accurate, transparent, fit for purpose and aligned with approved commercial and operational requirements. 

• Commercial outcomes: Support investment decisions, target returns, approved budgets and margin protection by translating operational and technical requirements into reliable cost information. 

• Capability building: Develop repeatable frameworks, templates and knowledge across the Property function so detailed cost analysis can be delivered consistently as the portfolio and capital-works programme scale. 

What You'll Bring

• Tertiary qualifications in Property, Finance, Business, Engineering or an equivalent discipline. 

• 7+ years of experience in property analysis, asset management, cost management, commercial analysis, infrastructure or a similar role. 

• Strong analytical, financial-modelling, commercial and cost-estimation skills, with the ability to understand technical and operational cost drivers. 

• Experience leading complex, cross-functional workstreams and influencing stakeholders from senior leadership to technical and site teams. 

• Ability to establish frameworks, review work prepared by others, coach team members and manage competing priorities across a high-volume pipeline. 

• Intermediate to advanced skills in Microsoft Office, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Power BI and MS Project. 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present clear recommendations to executive and operational audiences. 

• • Data centre, critical infrastructure, construction, capital-project or facilities-management experience is desirable but not essential. 

The AirTrunk Culture 

Working at AirTrunk is a once in a lifetime opportunity to fast-track your career and amplify your impact. Whilst you’re helping scale our region’s digital future, we’ll help you Grow@Hyperscale and unleash your full potential.

The pace in which we operate means you’ll feel an electric atmosphere at AirTrunk. We are a team of challengers and collaborative problem solvers who break new ground every day. We do this by living our values, going above and beyond, and being dynamic, transparent, and responsive.

Every AirTrunker brings their own unique background and diverse perspective to find solutions to problems that matter. We make sure you have everything you need to make your mark and thrive in a flexible and safe working environment, where everyone feels welcome. Our benefits empower AirTrunkers to stay positively charged.

Now’s your chance to Grow@Hyperscale.

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