Lead Real Estate Financial Valuation Analyst

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Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Join us for an exciting opportunity at Albertsons Companies, where innovation and customer service go hand-in-hand!

At Albertsons Companies, we are looking for someone who’s not just seeking a job, but someone who wants to make an impact. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to lead, innovate, and contribute to the growth of a company that values great service and lasting customer relationships. This position offers the chance to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment that’s constantly evolving.

Position Purpose

The Lead Senior Real Estate Financial Valuation Analyst is a highly analytical, results-oriented professional responsible for executing financial valuation, investment analysis, and decision support for the company’s retail grocery real estate portfolio. Reporting to the Sr. Manager, Real Estate Financial Valuation, this role acts as the Sr. Manager’s day-to-day partner, coordinating priorities, advancing critical analyses, maintaining valuation standards, and delivering accurate, high-quality work on time. The role serves as the lead individual contributor for the team, providing analytical leadership, mentorship, and valuation subject matter expertise while supporting consistent execution across analysts.

The role works closely with Real Estate, Finance, Capital Planning, Operations, Market Research, Accounting, Legal, Data Science, Technology, and other business partners. The Senior Analyst translates complex real estate economics, store performance, market dynamics, and risk into clear, supportable insights and recommendations for investment and portfolio decisions. The position may represent the Sr. Manager in meetings and working sessions as delegated and helps ensure leadership priorities are effectively communicated and executed. 

Role Mandate:

• Act as the Sr. Manager’s day-to-day analytical partner, helping manage workflow, coordinate deliverables, resolve issues, and maintain momentum across valuation priorities.
• Execute rigorous and consistent financial analyses that improve the quality, speed, transparency, and comparability of real estate investment decisions.
• Provide independent analytical challenge, identify key value drivers and risks, and convert findings into concise recommendations for business leaders and committees.
• Maintain disciplined valuation models, assumptions, controls, documentation, and post-investment feedback loops.
• Advance process improvement through standardized data, scalable models, automation, advanced analytics, and responsible use of AI-enabled tools.
• Support the development of analysts and strengthen team capability through technical guidance, model review, and knowledge sharing.
• Serve as a lead resource and mentor for analysts through coaching, model review, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing without direct people-management responsibility.
• Represent the Sr. Manager in meetings, working sessions, and cross-functional forums when delegated, ensuring alignment, follow-through, and clear communication of team perspectives.
• Provide day-to-day analytical leadership across assigned valuation work, coordinating analyst workloads, reviewing work product, resolving technical issues, and helping ensure deliverables meet established valuation standards, timelines, and decision requirements. 
   

Main responsibilities:

• Investment Valuation and Decision Support
  • 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 appropriate to each investment type.
  • Develop scenario, sensitivity, break-even, and risk analyses that identify the assumptions and business drivers most likely to change an investment outcome.
  • Integrate store-level P&L performance, sales and margin expectations, capital requirements, occupancy costs, lease economics, market conditions, cannibalization, competitive impacts, and portfolio considerations into analyses.
  • Assess incomplete or conflicting information, validate source data, document assumptions, and escalate material gaps or risks to the Sr. Manager.
  • Form a clear, supportable point of view and communicate risks, tradeoffs, alternatives, and value-creation opportunities in decision-ready language.
     
• Valuation Standards, Governance, and Quality Control
  • Apply enterprise valuation methodologies, economic assumptions, model architecture, documentation requirements, review thresholds, and approval controls consistently across assignments.
  • Maintain standardized models, assumption libraries, review checklists, version control, and audit-ready support so analyses are reproducible and transparent.
  • Perform detailed quality reviews of financial models and committee materials, testing calculations, validating inputs, challenging unsupported assumptions, and confirming consistency with company standards.
  • Partner with the Sr. Manager to identify and remediate data-quality issues, control gaps, inconsistent practices, and process risks that could affect investment recommendations or portfolio reporting.
  • Interpret enterprise valuation standards and methodologies for complex or non-standard situations and recommend enhancements to assumptions, controls, review procedures, and analytical frameworks to improve consistency and decision quality.
  • Coordinate with Accounting, Finance, and Legal on valuation inputs, lease accounting considerations, financial reporting requirements, and transaction structures as directed.
     
• Portfolio Strategy and Performance Analysis
  • 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 in partnership with Real Estate Analytics, Market Research, Operations, and Finance.
  • Develop portfolio-level comparisons and prioritization views that evaluate investments consistently within capital and resource constraints.
  • Execute post-investment reviews that compare actual performance with approved underwriting, identify drivers of variance, and improve future assumptions and decisions.
  • Monitor key performance indicators and emerging risks across approved investments, flagging material changes in expected value or payback.
     
• Executive Communication and Committee Support
  • Prepare executive-ready valuation summaries, investment memoranda, committee materials, dashboards, and presentations that clearly state the recommendation, economics, risks, alternatives, and decision required.
  • Support the Sr. Manager in preparing for capital committees, real estate governance forums, and senior leadership discussions, including analysis validation, issue resolution, and follow-up tracking.
  • Present analyses and recommendations when appropriate, respond credibly to questions, and adjust the level of detail for financial and non-financial audiences.
  • Partner with business owners to ensure proposals are complete, assumptions are supported, alternatives are evaluated, and required deliverables are accurate and timely.
  • Represent the Sr. Manager in cross-functional meetings, governance forums, project reviews, and analytical working sessions when delegated, communicate valuation positions on behalf of the team, and drive follow-through on agreed actions.
  • Serve as a recognized valuation subject matter expert and provide guidance to business partners on analytical approaches, assumptions, and investment evaluation criteria.
     
• Day-to-Day Partnership and Workflow Leadership
  • Serve as the primary day-to-day analytical partner to the Sr. Manager, maintaining visibility to active assignments, priorities, resource needs, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder requirements.
  • Partner with the Sr. Manager to assess incoming valuation requests, clarify scope and priority, coordinate work across analysts, monitor deadlines and interdependencies, and identify capacity constraints or execution risks.
  • Provide analytical leadership across assigned valuation initiatives, helping ensure team deliverables are completed consistently, accurately, and in accordance with valuation standards and business requirements.
  • Coordinate cross-functional inputs, resolve routine analytical issues, and escalate material judgment, policy, or investment decisions requiring leadership review.
  • Represent the valuation team in cross-functional working sessions as delegated and ensure decisions, assumptions, commitments, and follow-up actions are documented and communicated effectively.
     
• Technical Leadership and Analyst Development
  • Serve as a mentor and technical advisor to analysts by providing coaching on valuation methodologies, financial modeling techniques, investment analysis practices, and professional development.
  • Serve as the primary technical review and escalation point for complex valuation models, investment analyses, and underwriting recommendations prepared by analysts, resolving issues where appropriate and escalating material judgment, policy, or investment matters to the Sr. Manager.
  • Review models, analyses, and recommendations prepared by analysts to promote consistency, quality, transparency, and adherence to valuation standards.
  • Interpret valuation methodologies and standards for complex, ambiguous, or non-standard transactions, recommend appropriate analytical approaches, and identify opportunities to strengthen valuation frameworks, controls, assumptions, and review practices.
     
• Support onboarding and development of analysts through training, knowledge transfer, documentation, coaching, and sharing of best practices.
  • Lead the team's most complex, ambiguous, cross-functional, or strategically significant valuation assignments, including matters involving material capital commitments, significant assumption uncertainty, multiple investment alternatives, portfolio implications, or elevated executive visibility.
  • Serve as a recognized valuation subject matter expert for difficult analytical issues and emerging valuation challenges.
  • Develop decision-ready reporting and dashboards using Excel, Power BI, SQL, and related analytical tools.
  • Use AI tools responsibly to accelerate 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. 
     

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Real Estate, Economics, Business, or a related quantitative field. MBA, CFA, ASA, MAI, or another relevant advanced credential is preferred.
• 7 or more 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.
• Experience supporting retail, grocery, multi-site, or large portfolio real estate decisions is strongly preferred.
• Experience preparing materials for senior leadership, investment committees, or other executive decision-making forums is preferred.
• Experience leading analytical workstreams, mentoring analysts, coordinating cross-functional deliverables, or serving as a technical valuation subject matter expert is preferred. 
   

We are looking for candidates who possess the following:

• 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 key value drivers, challenge assumptions constructively, and form a clear, supportable recommendation.
• Advanced Excel proficiency and experience building controlled, scalable financial models. Working proficiency in Power BI and SQL is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to use AI tools, automation, and advanced analytics to improve modeling, accelerate workflows, strengthen documentation and quality review, and produce 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, with the ability to simplify complex analyses without losing financial 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 operate 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. 
   
• Travel Requirements: Limited travel may be required based on business needs.
   

Position Success Measures

• Quality, accuracy, consistency, and timeliness of valuation analyses and investment recommendations.
• Reliability as the Sr. Manager’s day-to-day partner, including workflow ownership, issue resolution, stakeholder coordination, and follow-through.
• Clarity of decision materials and visibility to investment risk, value drivers, assumptions, alternatives, and portfolio tradeoffs.
• Adherence to valuation standards, controls, documentation requirements, and quality review expectations.
• Accuracy of underwriting assumptions and demonstrated learning from post-investment performance.
• Process efficiency gained through standardization, automation, data improvement, and responsible AI adoption.
• Contribution to team capability through technical guidance, reusable tools, knowledge sharing, and constructive collaboration.
• Effectiveness in mentoring analysts and strengthening team capability through coaching, guidance, and knowledge transfer.
• Effectiveness as the team's lead individual contributor through analytical leadership, technical review, issue resolution, and coordination of complex valuation work.
• Quality and consistency of analytical output across the valuation team, including successful mentoring, coaching, and development of analysts.
• Effectiveness serving as the primary technical review and escalation point for complex valuation matters.
• Successful execution of the team's most complex, strategically significant, and executive-visible assignments.
• Success representing leadership priorities and valuation recommendations in delegated meetings and stakeholder engagements. 
   

We also provide a variety of benefits including:

• Competitive wages paid weekly
• Access to up to 50% of your earned wages before payday, via our partnership with Stream
• Associate discounts
• Health and financial well-being benefits for eligible associates (Medical, Dental, 401k and more!)
• Time off (vacation, holidays, sick pay).  For eligibility requirements please visit myACI Benefits
• Leaders invested in your training, career growth and development
• An inclusive work environment with talented colleagues who reflect the communities we serve
   

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