Analyst III Finance Operations - Real Estate Operations

About This Role

This role drives financial performance for Real Estate Operations within Ahold Delhaize USA by providing research, analytics, and recommendations on complex business modeling and the impacts of changing accounting principles. The Analyst III acts as a contributing influence to operating income and expenses related to real estate, working with various internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Research, analyze, reconcile, audit, and summarize financial data for management decisions and resolve accounting discrepancies
• Report productivity, margins, and expenditures, calculating accruals using business knowledge and historical/future projections
• Lead period close activities for assigned discipline, maintaining current knowledge of specialized account regulations
• Identify and assess financial variances, providing insight and advice to senior management on accounting issues
• Compile accurate period, quarterly, and annual reports, ensuring accuracy of financial statements and completing non-standard report requests
• Serve as a resource during internal and external audit processes
• Analyze complex revenue and payables and receivables accounts, and negotiate with vendors to resolve disputes
• Perform complex analysis and account reconciliations, solve complex accounting, process, and system issues, and recommend process improvements
• Answer Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet questions for assigned accounts and ensure completion of period-end activities for accurate reporting
• Ensure timely and accurate completion of accounting transactions for expense accounts, performing account analysis and reconciliations of general ledger accounts
• Responsible for various reports, KPIs, and metrics for the Real Estate Operations department
• Responsible for research, analysis and reporting on Real Estate annual expense budgets and forecast adjustments
• Responsible for reconciling and facilitating Rent Roll for Payables (approx. $106M monthly/ $1.2B annually) and Receivables ($11M monthly/ $135M annually)
• Ensure all adjustments, amendments, & ownership changes are properly included and accounted for within VMD and AMT

Requirements

• 6-8 years' experience
• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience
• Strong understanding of accounting theories, methodologies, principles and practices
• Ability to read and interpret legal documents
• Knowledge of general accounting requirements
• Strong Microsoft Office skills; advanced formulas in Excel (lookups, pivot tables, and macros)
• Experience with or ability to use query tools for reporting
• Accurate and detail-oriented with excellent follow-through skills
• Strong customer service mindset
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to communicate with all levels of management, internal and external business partners, and auditors
• Ability to recognize need for and recommend changes
• Strong business process improvement skills
• Team player
• Strong organizational skills with ability to work on multiple tasks concurrently
• Ability to create and effectively deliver training to all levels of the organization

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience
• 6-8 years' experience

Nice to Have

• Experience with account analysis, budgeting and forecasting
• Experience with lease related matters
• SAP knowledge
• AMT lease administration knowledge

Skills

* Required skills