What are the responsibilities and job description for the Portfolio Analyst position at Digital Realty?
Job Description
Portfolio Analyst - Associate
Location: Boston, MA (Hybrid)
Your Role
As a Portfolio Analyst, you will play a high‑visibility role supporting the financial performance and strategic decision‑making of a diverse portfolio of data center assets. You will partner closely with Portfolio Management leadership, including Vice Presidents, Directors, and Asset Managers, to deliver financial analysis, forecasts, reporting, and recommendations that inform executive‑level decisions. Your work will have direct exposure to senior stakeholders and a visible impact on business outcomes.
What You’ll Do
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300 facilities in 50 metros across 25 countries on six continents.
To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter .
A Bit About Our Portfolio Management Team
Our Portfolio Management team works in one of the world’s fastest growing and most exciting business sectors. We use our financial expertise and commercial awareness to support and develop an international, publicly listed organization. From managing budgets to financial and inventory planning, we deliver a full range of finance and strategic problem solving to help our business stay on track, support our customers, and meet our goals.
What We Can Offer You
Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.
Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.
Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.
Health and Safety
Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.
Our Compensation Philosophy
Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.
Our published pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and geographical location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including but not limited to job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. Moreover, an employee’s total compensation package varies by role and may include salary, cash bonus or commissions, and equity awards not quantified below.
Compensation range: $100,000 to $120,000. This compensation range represents the Company’s good faith belief as to what it will pay as a base salary for this position at the time of this posting.
Benefits: For this role, Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, 401k match, disability benefits, wellness and education benefits, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, holidays, and more.
Portfolio Analyst - Associate
Location: Boston, MA (Hybrid)
Your Role
As a Portfolio Analyst, you will play a high‑visibility role supporting the financial performance and strategic decision‑making of a diverse portfolio of data center assets. You will partner closely with Portfolio Management leadership, including Vice Presidents, Directors, and Asset Managers, to deliver financial analysis, forecasts, reporting, and recommendations that inform executive‑level decisions. Your work will have direct exposure to senior stakeholders and a visible impact on business outcomes.
What You’ll Do
- Develop, maintain, and analyze cash flow models for data center assets, including lease and investment analyses.
- Prepare investment analyses and underwriting materials for properties across multiple markets.
- Support deal, capital, and construction project presentations for the Investment Committee.
- Manage and consolidate annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, long‑term projections, and variance analyses.
- Validate monthly financial reports and support portfolio‑level reporting, including occupancy and capital planning.
- Track and analyze leasing activity, leasing statistics, and portfolio performance trends.
- Monitor construction and redevelopment activity, budgets, and development progress.
- Research market conditions, including supply, demand, competition, and broader market trends.
- Create and maintain financial reports, databases, and ad hoc analyses driven by market or lease activity.
- Support ad hoc reporting and general Asset Management administrative needs.
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Real Estate, or a related field.
- 2 years of experience in real estate analysis, such as asset management, development, lending, or commercial leasing.
- Strong understanding of real estate finance, including discounted cash flow modeling and financial reporting.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
- Working knowledge of Yardi preferred; familiarity with Argus is a plus.
- Ability to analyze large data sets, think strategically, and deliver detailed, well‑reasoned recommendations.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills with strong attention to detail.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced environment.
- Collaborative, resourceful, and eager to learn, with the ability to adapt quickly to new tools and systems.
- Willingness to adopt AI‑enabled tools, accept feedback, go above and beyond expectations, and travel occasionally as needed.
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300 facilities in 50 metros across 25 countries on six continents.
To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter .
A Bit About Our Portfolio Management Team
Our Portfolio Management team works in one of the world’s fastest growing and most exciting business sectors. We use our financial expertise and commercial awareness to support and develop an international, publicly listed organization. From managing budgets to financial and inventory planning, we deliver a full range of finance and strategic problem solving to help our business stay on track, support our customers, and meet our goals.
What We Can Offer You
Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.
Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.
Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.
Health and Safety
Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.
Our Compensation Philosophy
Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.
Our published pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and geographical location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including but not limited to job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. Moreover, an employee’s total compensation package varies by role and may include salary, cash bonus or commissions, and equity awards not quantified below.
Compensation range: $100,000 to $120,000. This compensation range represents the Company’s good faith belief as to what it will pay as a base salary for this position at the time of this posting.
Benefits: For this role, Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, 401k match, disability benefits, wellness and education benefits, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, holidays, and more.
Salary : $100,000 - $120,000