Lead Real Estate Financial Valuation Analyst

Albertsons Companies • Boise, ID

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About The Position

The Lead Senior Real Estate Financial Valuation Analyst is a highly analytical, results-oriented professional responsible for financial valuation, investment analysis, and decision support for Albertsons Companies’ retail grocery real estate portfolio. Reporting to the Sr. Manager, Real Estate Financial Valuation, this role serves as the manager’s day-to-day analytical partner, coordinating priorities, advancing critical analyses, maintaining valuation standards, and delivering accurate, high-quality work on time. It is the team’s lead individual-contributor role, providing analytical leadership, mentorship, and valuation expertise without direct people-management responsibility.

The position partners with Real Estate, Finance, Capital Planning, Operations, Market Research, Accounting, Legal, Data Science, Technology, and other business stakeholders. It translates real estate economics, store performance, market dynamics, and risk into clear, supportable insights and recommendations for investment and portfolio decisions. When delegated, the role may represent the Sr. Manager in meetings and working sessions and help communicate and execute leadership priorities.

The analyst performs end-to-end valuation for a wide range of real estate and store investments; develops and reviews financial models and decision materials; maintains disciplined assumptions, controls, documentation, and post-investment feedback; and identifies opportunities to improve processes through standardization, automation, advanced analytics, and responsible use of AI-enabled tools. The role also coordinates valuation workflow, reviews analysts’ work, resolves technical issues, mentors and develops analysts, and leads complex, strategically significant assignments.

Limited travel may be required based on business needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Real Estate, Economics, Business, or a related quantitative field.
• At least 7 years of progressive experience in real estate valuation, investment analysis, corporate finance, capital planning, transaction advisory, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience developing complex financial models and translating results into investment recommendations.
• Advanced financial modeling and valuation expertise, including DCF, NPV, IRR, payback, scenario analysis, sensitivity analysis, and lease-versus-own evaluation.
• Strong understanding of retail real estate economics, store-level financial performance, lease structures, capital investment, portfolio strategy, and transaction processes.
• Ability to evaluate complex and incomplete information, identify value drivers, constructively challenge assumptions, and develop clear, supportable recommendations.
• Advanced Excel proficiency and experience building controlled, scalable financial models.
• Ability to use AI tools, automation, and advanced analytics to improve modeling, workflows, documentation, quality review, and decision-ready insights.
• Working knowledge of Python, R, workflow automation, GIS, or comparable analytical tools, including the ability to use AI tools to develop, test, troubleshoot, and document analytical solutions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to explain complex analysis to financial and non-financial audiences without sacrificing rigor.
• Excellent organization, project management, prioritization, and cross-functional partnership skills.
• High attention to detail and a disciplined approach to data validation, model review, documentation, and quality control.
• Ability to work with substantial independence, manage multiple high-priority deadlines, and serve as a dependable day-to-day partner to the Sr. Manager.
• High standards for ethics, confidentiality, objective analysis, and compliance with company policies and controls.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop analytical talent through coaching, model review, and constructive feedback.
• Strong leadership presence and ability to influence outcomes and represent departmental leadership without direct authority.

Nice To Haves

• MBA, CFA, ASA, MAI, or another relevant advanced credential.
• Experience supporting retail, grocery, multi-site, or large-portfolio real estate decisions.
• Experience preparing materials for senior leadership, investment committees, or other executive decision-making forums.
• Experience leading analytical workstreams, mentoring analysts, coordinating cross-functional deliverables, or serving as a technical valuation subject matter expert.
• Working proficiency in Power BI and SQL.

Responsibilities

• Perform end-to-end financial valuation for real estate and store investments, including new stores, relocations, remodels, expansions, acquisitions, lease renewals, option exercises, restructurings, dispositions, sale-leasebacks, surplus property strategies, and other store initiatives.
• Build and maintain discounted cash flow, net present value, internal rate of return, payback, residual value, lease-versus-own, and other decision models.
• Develop scenario, sensitivity, break-even, and risk analyses; integrate store performance, sales and margin expectations, capital requirements, occupancy costs, lease economics, market conditions, cannibalization, competitive impacts, and portfolio considerations.
• Validate source data, document assumptions, assess incomplete or conflicting information, escalate material gaps or risks, and communicate recommendations, risks, tradeoffs, alternatives, and value-creation opportunities.
• Apply enterprise valuation methodologies, economic assumptions, model architecture, documentation requirements, review thresholds, and approval controls consistently.
• Maintain standardized models, assumption libraries, review checklists, version control, and audit-ready support; perform detailed quality reviews of models and committee materials.
• Partner with the Sr. Manager to identify and remediate data-quality issues, control gaps, inconsistent practices, and process risks; recommend enhancements to assumptions, controls, review procedures, and analytical frameworks.
• Coordinate with Accounting, Finance, and Legal on valuation inputs, lease accounting considerations, financial reporting requirements, and transaction structures as directed.
• Analyze the store and real estate portfolio to identify underperforming assets, expiring commitments, value-at-risk, redevelopment potential, and opportunities to reposition, renegotiate, relocate, consolidate, or divest.
• Combine valuation results with market, customer, competitive, operational, and portfolio insights; develop portfolio comparisons and prioritization views within capital and resource constraints.
• Conduct post-investment reviews, compare actual performance with approved underwriting, identify variances, and monitor performance indicators and emerging risks across approved investments.
• Prepare executive-ready valuation summaries, investment memoranda, committee materials, dashboards, and presentations that explain recommendations, economics, risks, alternatives, and decisions required.
• Support the Sr. Manager in preparing for capital committees, governance forums, and senior leadership discussions; present analyses as appropriate and ensure proposals and deliverables are complete, supported, accurate, and timely.
• Represent the Sr. Manager or valuation team in delegated meetings and working sessions, communicate valuation positions, coordinate cross-functional inputs, document decisions and actions, and drive follow-through.
• Serve as the primary day-to-day analytical partner to the Sr. Manager by tracking assignments, priorities, resource needs, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder requirements; coordinate analyst workloads and monitor deadlines.
• Provide analytical leadership across assigned valuation initiatives, resolve routine analytical issues, and escalate material judgment, policy, or investment decisions requiring leadership review.
• Mentor and advise analysts on valuation methodologies, financial modeling, investment analysis, and professional development; review their work, provide constructive feedback, and support onboarding through training and knowledge transfer.
• Act as the primary technical review and escalation point for complex valuation models, analyses, and underwriting recommendations prepared by analysts.
• Lead complex, ambiguous, cross-functional, strategically significant, or executive-visible valuation assignments and serve as a valuation subject matter expert.
• Develop decision-ready reporting and dashboards using Excel, Power BI, SQL, and related analytical tools.
• Use AI tools responsibly to support research, model development, documentation, quality assurance, scenario generation, and insight delivery while maintaining human review and confidentiality.
• Document methodologies, assumptions, data lineage, controls, and operating procedures to support transparency, knowledge transfer, and business continuity.
• Improve process efficiency and analytical capability through standardization, data improvements, automation, advanced analytics, reusable tools, and knowledge sharing.

Benefits

• Competitive wages paid weekly.
• Access to up to 50% of earned wages before payday through the company’s partnership with Stream.
• Associate discounts.
• Health and financial well-being benefits for eligible associates, including medical, dental, and 401(k).
• Time off, including vacation, holidays, and sick pay, subject to eligibility requirements.
• Training, career growth, and development opportunities.
• An inclusive work environment with colleagues who reflect the communities served.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior