Retail Financial Analyst - WW Real Estate Finance

Imagine the impact you could make here. At Apple, ideas quickly become groundbreaking products, services, and customer experiences. Bring your passion for numbers, strategy, and people, and there’s no telling what you’ll accomplish.

Join the Retail Real Estate Finance team and help shape the re-investment strategy for Apple’s retail stores worldwide—encompassing 500+ locations across 20+ countries and annual Operating Expenses of $1.5B+. Our deep collaboration with the WW Retail Places team ensures the appropriate types of investments for our physical fleet, across Front of House and Back of House, directly influencing both the employee and customer experience around the globe.

As a Financial Analyst on the Retail Real Estate team, you will play an integral and diverse role in supporting Appleʼs retail store growth. You will partner deeply with an array of global and cross-functional teams-including Places business team, Places Market Analysis, Retail Store Analytics, and finance teams across apple.

The collaboration will help identify incremental growth from recent and upcoming real estate investment decisions though individual store business cases while simultaneously contemplating the impact to the broader physical portfolio. Your work will include dynamic financial modeling, forecasting, performance reporting, and story-telling.

Given the breadth of stakeholders and the strategic importance of our capital investments, you will handle highly confidential information, have substantial ownership, and include regular exposure to senior leadership.

Description

As a Retail Real Estate Financial Analyst, you will play a critical role in analyzing the investments in our physical fleet worldwide, balancing the importance of data-driven financial metrics with other KPIs around brand and services that impact the customer and employee experiences. You will incorporate evolving macroeconomic and business trends into detailed financial business cases, delivering key financial insights and recommendations that guide executive decision-making.

Responsibilities

• New Store & Replacement Store Investment Modeling: Drive key performance and operational insights of new stores and significant replacement investments, influencing remedial actions and future strategy
• Investment Governance: Establish real estate investment targets across key P&L line items and determine profitability metrics to influence broader portfolio
• Cross-Functional Project Leadership: Help drive global initiatives and process improvements in close collaboration with key partners across Retail Real Estate, Retail Stores Analytics, and Places Finance
• Strategic Ad Hoc Analytics: Develop rigorous and strategic analysis on retailʼs existing fleet identifying performance and profitability trends
• Geo Expansion: Partner with Retail Real Estate, Retail Business Planning, Sales Finance, and other business functions across Apple to build a holistic business case of entering new markets with physical and/or online Retail presence.
• Executive Communication: Synthesize complex business case proposals into clear, actionable storylines and executive summaries for Retail, Places and Finance leadership

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in finance, financial planning & analysis (FP&A), or a related quantitative field.
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Mathematics, Economics, or Business (or equivalent)
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and Keynote

Preferred Qualifications

• Passion for process improvement and eagerness to leverage new technology tools; prior experience with AI tools to transform processes and drive efficiencies
• Expertise in quantitative and financial analysis, with the agility to navigate ambiguity
• Strong business partnership with ability to work effectively with teams across different time zones
• Ability to present to multiple stakeholders in a concise and impactful way
• Exceptional prioritization skills to balance multiple projects at once
• Extraordinary attention to detail with a strategic and commercial lens
• Pay & Benefits

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $140,700 and $211,400, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.

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