QTS Realty Trust

Vice President, Investments

QTS Realty Trust$150K — $200K *
Finance & Insurance
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or Mathematics; or equivalent experience.
  • 15+ years in a financial environment, focusing on value creation and strategic thinking.
  • Expertise in financial modeling with metrics like WACC, NPV, IRR, and ROI.
  • Proficient in MS Office, particularly Excel.
  • Problem-solving mindset with a resourceful and optimistic approach.

Responsibilities

  • Drive internal management processes for timely investment decisions.
  • Maintain relationships for transaction-level insights and economic understanding.
  • Develop systems for project tracking and real estate investment optimization.
  • Oversee outcomes from financial models to support acquisitions and dispositions.
  • Coordinate due diligence teams in project management from identification to completion.
  • Research market data to inform executive decision-making with relevant analytics.
  • Manage financial elements through transactions, including P&L and cross-team coordination.

Benefits

  • QRest Sabbatical program for extended time off.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan for investment opportunities.
  • Tuition assistance and QTS scholarships for employee dependents.
  • Eagle Club award eligibility for high achievers.
  • Paid volunteer days to support community involvement.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
Full Job Description
Who You Are:

Join our investments team as Vice President of Investments to help manage and guide our industry-leading investment initiatives. You have keen skills in real estate, development, acquisitions, financial modeling, and technology, along with the ability to lead through influence and communicate with an executive team.

The Impact You Will Have:

As a Vice President of Investments will have a direct impact on our growth and value creation by aiding QTS stakeholders to make impactful decisions with financial data. You will oversee strategic partnerships at QTS by providing analysis on projects to the Company, Executive Committee and QTS Board.

What You Will Do:
  • Drive management processes internally for the investments group to ensure timely and accurate review and decision-making.
  • Time-sensitive acuity to maintain a transaction-level relationship while understanding the key economic drivers and manage value maximization resolve for Company.
  • Build better systems for tracking projects, contacts, and information across the organization for real estate investment optimization.
  • Oversight of outcomes from development and asset models to support the company acquisitions, financings (joint-venture, equity initiatives, etc.), land, asset, and operating company acquisitions/dispositions.
  • Assist in managing projects from identification through completion, including coordination of due diligence teams and financial underwriting.
  • Research market data and costs information to drive the most meaningful decision analytics for senior management.
  • Project management of financial items through these transactions:
    • Present succinct findings in an executed, summary-level that drives value and Executive decision-making.
    • Management of P&L to closing documents.
    • Cross-team coordination both pre- and post-closing.


What You Will Need to be Successful:
  • Bachelor's degree preferably with a concentration in Finance, Economics, Accounting or Mathematics or equivalent professional experience.
  • 15+ years of working experience in a collaborative financial environment (banking, real estate, etc.) focused on driving bottom line value-creation through strategic thinking in a time-sensitive manner.
  • Solid proficiency in MS Office applications, especially Excel.
  • Solid experience creating financial models using WACC, NPV, IRR and ROI.
  • Optimistic and resourceful problem solver


It Would be Great to Have:
  • Master of Business Administration or equivalent.
  • Experience with Workday, Salesforce, Adaptive Insights and Office Cx.
  • Experience in fast-paced, high-growth Data Center markets.
  • ARGUS Enterprise experience preferred.
  • Experience providing financial and analytical support to a development organization.


The Perks (and these are just a few!)
  • QRest Sabbatical
  • Employee Stock Purchase
  • QTS scholarship for dependents
  • Eagle Club award trip eligibility
  • Paid volunteer days
  • Tuition assistance, parental leave and military leave assistance


TOTAL REWARDS

This role is also eligible for a competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; flexible spending and HSA accounts; paid holidays; paid time off; paid volunteer days; employee assistance program; tuition assistance; parental leave; military leave assistance; QTS scholarship for dependents; wellness program, and other company benefits.
• This position is Bonus eligible.
• This job may be eligible for equity.

About QTS Realty Trust

QTS is the digital infrastructure leader – Powered by People, driven by purpose and fueled by a spirit of innovation. We have a 20-year track record of designing, building and operating world-class data centers, delivering the critical infrastructure for the world’s largest and fastest-growing companies. We have more than 75 data centers in operation or under development across the United States and Europe.
Learn more about QTS Realty Trust
Size
82,000 employees
Market Cap
$5.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$15.9 million
Founded
2005
5 Year Trend
+11.6%
Revenue
$539.3 million
NASDAQ

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