Analyst III Finance Ops - Real Estate Ops

Category/Area of Expertise: Accounting/Finance
Job Requisition: 473226
Address: USA-PA-Carlisle-1149 Harrisburg Pike
Store Code: AP/AR Not For Resale (5133368)

Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is part of the U.S. family of brands, which includes five leading omnichannel grocery brands - Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Our associates support the brands with a wide range of services, including Finance, Legal, Sustainability, Commercial, Digital and E-commerce, Technology and more.

Position Summary

The overall objective of this role is driving financial performance by providing research, analytics, and recommendations on complex business modeling, non-standard management reporting, and impacts of changing accounting principles to business leadership within Accounting Services including Real Estate Operations, Treasury, Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, and Cash Management/Treasury. Position requires vast expertise in multiple areas /disciplines both internal to finance as well as business partner functions and applies that expertise to the overall project/ function. As a contributing influence of the operating income and expenses related to real estate, it is critical that the Analyst work with Retail, Legal, VMD and Vendors to support the execution of comprehensive, cohesive, and well-integrated financial programs. They lead and research real estate related issues and inquiries and coordinate resources to bring resolution, create monthly scorecards and perform additional accounting duties as needed. Responsible for conducting business in accordance with ADUSA policies and procedures as well as Accounting Standard Practices.

Our flexible/hybrid work schedule includes 3 in-person days at one of our core locations and 2 remote days. Our core office locations include Salisbury, NC, Carlisle, PA, Quincy MA, or Scarborough, ME.

Principle Duties and Responsibilities

• Research, analyze, reconcile, audit, and summarize financial data for use by management in making finance decisions and resolve accounting discrepancies.
• Report productivity, margins, and expenditures that occur within the organization calculating accruals using business knowledge and extrapolations of historical data or future projections based on probability.
• Leads period close activities for assigned discipline maintaining current knowledge of specialized account regulations.
• Identifies and assesses financial variances based on knowledge and expertise providing insight and advice for senior management and other end users regarding accounting issues that arise from reconciliation or reported financial results,
• Compiles accurate period, quarterly, and annual reports ensuring accuracy of financial statements, and completes requests for non-standard reports.
• Serves as a resource during internal and external audit processes.
• Interactions are internal and external to the company at all levels and pertain to functional activities.
• Independently gains cooperation and commitment through personal persuasiveness.
• Analyze complex revenue and payables and receivables accounts and negotiate with vendor to resolve disputes.
• Performs complex analysis and account reconciliations, solves complex accounting, process, and system issues and works with department staff to review current processes and makes recommendations for process improvements with a focus on continuous improvement
• Answer Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet questions for assigned accounts and ensure completion of period-end activities to ensure accurate reporting of payables and receivables in the company's financial statements.
• Responsible for ensuring the accounting transactions required to adequately report and manage expense accounts are completed in a timely and accurate manner, 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. Collaborating with ADUSA brands for input on future projections.
• Responsible for reconciling and facilitating Rent Roll for Payables (approx. $106M monthly/ $1.2B annually) and Receivables ($11M monthly/ $135M annually).
• Ensuring all adjustments, amendments, & ownership changes are properly included and accounted for within VMD and AMT.

• 6-8 years' experience. Highly developed technical skills are needed to perform the job
• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience
• Strong understanding of accounting theories, methodologies, principles and practices, and the impact of departmental transactions to financial statements
• 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
• SAP and AMT lease administration knowledge is helpful

• Experience with account analysis, budgeting and forecasting
• Experience with lease related matters