Director, Business Planning & Analysis

About this Opportunity:

At Regency Centers, our people are our greatest asset, and we believe that our highly skilled and talented team makes us better. We are seeking a Director of Business Planning and Analysis to join our corporate office located in Jacksonville, Florida. This role owns regional budgeting, forecasting, and reporting for Net Operating Income and key operating metrics, serving as the primary BP&A partner to Regional Managing Directors. The Director synthesizes complex financial and operational data into clear insights, proactively identifying risks and opportunities and communicating a forward-looking outlook to the Vice President, Business Planning & Analysis. The role ensures strong alignment between regional leadership and the National team to support consistent, high quality enterprise forecasting. This is a hybrid opportunity with 3 days in the office and 2 days working remotely after the training period.


What You’ll Be Doing:

• Direct regional budgeting and forecasting process in partnership with operating Managing Directors for Net Operating Income and key operating metrics, ensuring timely, accurate, and well supported projections.
• Partner with National BP&A to align assumptions, methodologies, and system inputs in support of enterprise forecasting processes.
• Deliver concise analysis and insights highlighting key drivers, risks, and variances to support leadership decision making.
• Support the Vice President, Business Planning & Analysis through disciplined execution, high quality analysis, and continuous process improvement.
• Serve as the primary BP&A partner to operating Managing Directors, directing regional budgeting and forecasting processes and deliverables, including recommendations on approach and considerations.
• Lead content creation for and communication of insights that influence outcomes that are consistent with National focus areas and expectations.
• Drive alignment between Regional and National BP&A, ensuring consistent assumptions, methodologies, and system inputs across enterprise forecasting processes.
• Provide leadership in ongoing budgeting and forecasting enhancements, including methodology refinement, automation, dashboards, and data warehouse integration to strengthen data integrity, efficiency, and analytical depth.
• Drive adoption of enhanced forecasting tools and methodologies, ensuring consistent use across the region and positioning the function for scalability and continuous improvement.
• Develop and elevate team capability by mentoring and cross training team members and peers on systems, tools, and best practices. Foster a collaborative, learning oriented environment that promotes upskilling, knowledge sharing, and strong partnership across Finance and Operations.

Are You Qualified?

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
• MBA or advanced finance degree
• At least ten (10) years of experience in corporate finance and accounting, financial planning and analysis, business plan modeling and forecasting
• Experience with business modeling/underwriting of acquisitions, dispositions, development of real estate and joint ventures structures
• Strong understanding of financial relationships, analytical skills and knowledge of financial planning and forecasting
• Strong knowledge of commercial real estate industry and solid knowledge of real estate development and operations
• Exceptional quantitative and financial analysis skills
• Commercial real estate experience preferred


* Regency Centers will not sponsor employment-based immigration petitions or applications for this position, including but not limited to H-1B, TN visa, or permanent residency.

Personal Traits We Value:

• Communication skills: customer focus, interpersonal savvy, written communication and presentation skills, capable of precise communication even under strict time constraints.
• Process Management, organization agility, trust, and integrity
• Strong capacity to adapt quickly in a learning situation, and extremely competent with numerical reasoning
• Comfortable making timely decisions while driving process forward in a methodical manner
• Talent development skills: hiring, motivating and developing direct reports

A Little Bit About Us:

We own and operate premier shopping centers in suburban neighborhoods in the top cities and markets across the country. We live by a strong set of values, which have guided us for more than 60 years.

Our centers thrive with highly productive grocers, restaurants, service providers, and terrific retailers that connect to their communities and customers. We are also active developers of new shopping centers that feature great merchandising, placemaking, and customer