Manager, Real Estate Finance (Development)
HybridRaleigh, North Carolina, United States
Job Summary
Lead financial planning and analysis across the full investment lifecycle for new stores, hub stores, market hubs, relocations, remodels, and strategic real estate investments. Establish site-level economics, evaluate returns and key sensitivities, and present clear recommendations to support capital-approval decisions. Own the integrated financial view of the development pipeline, including unit volume, opening cadence, capital phasing, pre-opening costs, rent commencement, and earnings impact. Drive growth capital planning and governance for the portfolio, monitor approvals and commitments, and recommend allocation actions that direct capital toward the highest-value opportunities. Build, lead, and sustain a high-performing team of Senior Financial Analysts and Financial Analysts responsible for investment underwriting and pipeline analytics. Serve as the primary Finance partner to Real Estate Development and cross-functional leaders, framing tradeoffs and translating complex analysis into concise, decision-ready recommendations for senior leadership.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or another quantitatively rigorous field
- Six or more years of progressive experience in corporate finance, FP&A, real estate finance, investment analysis, or a related discipline
- Advanced proficiency in building complex financial models from the ground up, including integrated cash flow, investment underwriting, capital planning, forecasting, scenario, and sensitivity models
- Strong command of NPV, IRR, return-based evaluation, and the key financial and operating drivers of investment performance
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
- Demonstrated ability to structure ambiguous business problems, synthesize large and varied data sets, identify key drivers, and translate analysis into clear, decision-ready insights and executive presentations
- Working proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint and enterprise financial planning, reporting, and data-visualization tools
- Demonstrated ability to validate, document, maintain, and improve complex financial models, with disciplined assumptions, controls, and review standards that support accurate, scalable, and audit-ready analysis
- Proven ability to combine financial analysis with sound business judgment, communicate complex concepts clearly, constructively challenge assumptions, influence without direct authority, and advise cross-functional and senior leaders on consequential investment and capital-allocation decisions
- Hybrid (4 days in office, 1 day remote)
- Based at our corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina
Desired Qualifications
- Experience leading, coaching, or developing analysts, project teams, or cross-functional workstreams, with demonstrated ability to set priorities, provide effective feedback, raise quality standards, and hold others accountable
- Formal people-management experience
- Experience supporting a multi-unit retail, consumer, or service organization
- Exposure to store growth, market expansion, new-unit economics, or portfolio performance
- Experience supporting acquisitions or site selection, development pipeline planning, construction, lease economics, asset or portfolio analysis, and project opening or stabilization within a large or geographically dispersed portfolio
- Experience with Anaplan, CoStar, or comparable enterprise planning, commercial real estate analytics, lease administration, portfolio management, or development pipeline tools
- Experience with Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Alteryx, or comparable data-management, automation, and visualization tools
- MBA or other relevant graduate degree
- CPA, CFA, or another finance, accounting, or real estate credential
- Experience supporting capital committees, site approval processes, executive investment reviews, post-investment performance programs, portfolio optimization, or finance transformation initiatives
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