Lead Real Estate Financial Valuation Analyst

Why choose us? 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 underp