Sr. Manager, Real Estate Finance

Advance Stores Company•Raleigh, NC

About The Position

Real Estate Finance is a critical role within the AAP Finance Organization that supports key initiatives in the Company’s operational and growth strategies. The Finance Manager will partner with the Real Estate organization to provide modeling and analyses that drive Enterprise performance. This role interacts and communicates with various disciplines in the organization to gain insights into new store pipeline, scheduling, performance, and uses those insights to update financial modeling and communicate results to multiple levels of Company management. The ideal candidate has outstanding business acumen, attention to detail, a learner mindset, passion to drive ideas and initiatives to completion, excellent analytical skills, and the ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization. The Finance Manager will excel in data-driven decision making and be comfortable with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements

Ability to create/update/modify/improve financial models with a solid understanding of accounting principles, financial relationships, and financial measures
Ability to leverage technology to streamline and improve business processes and work products
Ability to partner effectively with other disciplines to review and update assumptions used in the financial modeling (Labor, Real Estate, Operations, others)
5+ years of relevant experience in positions that require detailed analysis and reporting financial results
Advanced knowledge of Excel and experience with PBCS/Smartview, Anaplan
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Experience supporting a retail and/or real estate organization

Responsibilities

Lead new store opportunity (NSO) planning, forecast, and analysis
Ownership of full NSO P&L model, including inputs and continuous improvement of the model assumptions and calculations
Lead all analyses of NSO performance results, forecast model updates, and reporting (weekly, period, ad-hoc)
Manage end to end store target setting process for all NSOs including PBCS and Dashboard systems
Creation of weekly and period NSO targets during Annual Operating Planning process
Period end analysis, reporting, and forecast updates
Financial ownership of specific store P&L accounts
Interacting with key business partners to understand drivers of performance and how those drivers contribute to forecast updates
Preparing material for presentation and review with executive leadership
Periodic evaluation of NSO results compared to annual and long-term strategic business plans to identify risks and opportunities
Coordinating with business partners to identify and solve potential gaps in results as necessary
Identify opportunities and develop ad-hoc financial analyses and present recommendations to senior management
Help build high-performance culture where team members will develop skillsets and enable the pursuit of meaningful work and career goals