Job Description

About the Role

The Manager, Real Estate Finance serves as the financial backbone of Advance's growth and development agenda. The role leads financial planning and analysis across the full investment lifecycle for new stores, hub stores, market hubs, relocations, remodels, and other strategic real estate investments, from site-level underwriting and capital planning through forecasting, performance reporting, and post-investment analysis. This work equips leaders with the insight, rigor, and transparency needed to shape investment strategy, allocate capital effectively, and drive disciplined, profitable growth.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Real Estate Finance, this role builds, leads, and sustains a high-performing team of Senior Financial Analysts and Financial Analysts responsible for investment underwriting, growth capital planning, development pipeline analytics, and new-store performance. The Manager works directly with cross-functional leaders across Real Estate Development, Construction, Store Operations, Strategy, and Corporate FP&A, and regularly engages senior leaders to frame tradeoffs, challenge assumptions, and provide clear recommendations on material investment decisions.

This high-visibility role requires a finance leader who combines strong investment and modeling expertise with sound business judgment, executive-level communication, and a demonstrated ability to lead through others. The successful candidate will navigate ambiguity, constructively challenge assumptions, and translate complex real estate economics into actionable insights that strengthen investment decisions and support profitable growth.

Key Responsibilities
• Investment underwriting and approval support: Lead the financial evaluation of new stores, hub stores, market hubs, relocations, remodels, and other growth investments. Establish site-level economics, evaluate returns and key sensitivities, pressure-test assumptions, and present clear recommendations to support capital-approval decisions.
• Development pipeline modeling: Own the integrated financial view of the development pipeline, including unit volume, opening cadence, capital phasing, pre-opening costs, rent commencement, and earnings impact. Maintain scenario capability and align Real Estate, Construction, Operations, and Finance to a consistent set of dates and assumptions.
• Growth capital planning and governance: Lead the financial planning, forecasting, and governance processes for the growth portfolio. Monitor approvals, commitments, spend, accruals, and forecast changes; evaluate tradeoffs when capital is constrained; and recommend allocation actions that direct capital toward the highest-value opportunities.
• Planning, forecasting, and performance management: Own the growth and development components of the Annual Operating Plan, periodic forecasts, and long-range plan. Explain changes in volume, timing, capital, revenue, and profitability, identify risks and opportunities, and provide leadership with a clear view of performance against plan.
• Post-investment performance: Lead new-store and project performance reporting from opening through stabilization. Compare actual results with approved economics, identify the drivers of

performance, and translate findings into stronger underwriting assumptions, investment guardrails, and development strategies.
• Cross-functional and senior leadership partnership: Serve as the primary Finance partner to Real Estate Development and work directly with leaders across Construction, Store Operations, Strategy, and Corporate FP&A. Support senior leadership discussions on market prioritization, site selection, deal structures, capital intensity, and portfolio growth by framing tradeoffs, constructively challenging assumptions, and translating complex analysis into concise, decision-ready recommendations.
• Model governance and analytical standards: Own the integrity, consistency, and continuous improvement of development pro formas, pipeline models, reporting, and supporting processes. Establish clear assumptions, controls, documentation, and review standards that produce accurate, scalable, and audit-ready analysis.
• High-performing team leadership: Build, lead, and maintain a high-performing team of Senior Financial Analysts and Financial Analysts. Establish clear priorities and accountability, allocate work effectively, ensure consistently high-quality and timely deliverables, coach and develop talent, strengthen investment and modeling capabilities, and build a sustainable pipeline of finance leaders.

Certifications, Education, & Experience
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or another quantitatively rigorous field.
• Experience: Six or more years of progressive experience in corporate finance, FP&A, real estate finance, investment analysis, or a related discipline, including direct ownership of complex financial models, forecasts, investment evaluations, and decision support for material business or capital-allocation decisions.
• Financial modeling and investment expertise: 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.
• Analytical tools and capability: Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and 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.
• Model governance: 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.
• Executive and cross-functional leadership: 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.

Preferred Qualifications
• Leadership readiness: 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 is valued but not required.
• Retail, multi-unit, or commercial real estate experience: Experience supporting a multi-unit retail, consumer, or service organization is strongly preferred, particularly with exposure to store growth, market expansion, new-unit economics, or portfolio performance. Candidates with

relevant commercial real estate investment, development, or portfolio experience across retail, multifamily, industrial, office, mixed-use, or other property types will also be considered.
• Real estate investment and development exposure: 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.
• Planning and real estate platforms: Experience with Anaplan, CoStar, or comparable enterprise planning, commercial real estate analytics, lease administration, portfolio management, or development pipeline tools.
• Data and analytics tools: Experience with Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Alteryx, or comparable data-management, automation, and visualization tools.
• Advanced credentials: MBA or other relevant graduate degree, CPA, CFA, or another finance, accounting, or real estate credential.
• Investment governance and transformation: Experience supporting capital committees, site approval processes, executive investment reviews, post-investment performance programs, portfolio optimization, or finance transformation initiatives.

Location & Work Availability

This position is Hybrid (4 days in office, 1 day remote), based at our corporate headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Benefits Summary

We believe in supporting our Team Members and those they love through comprehensive health & wellness benefits. Learn more here: https://jobs.advanceautoparts.com/us/en/benefits