Job Description

Job Description

Finance Manager – 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.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Essential duties and responsibilities include the following.  Other duties may be assigned.

• Lead new store opportunity (NSO) planning, forecast, and analysis
  • Ownership of new Real Estate deal modeling, 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)
• Present financials of new Real estate at the Real Estate Committee to Senior leaders
• 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- Rent, taxes, common area maintenance, etc.
• 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

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• 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
• Own Anaplan models used for new Real Estate pro formas
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Experience supporting a retail and/or real estate organization

Education and/or Experience

BA/BS degree in Finance/Accounting/Business.  Advanced degree and/or CPA/CMA preferred.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Finance Manager will supervise one individual, who will assist in supporting all responsibilities noted here.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.  The work arrangement for this position is Hybrid.

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