Senior Manager, Lease Administration

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Our mission is to find and foster the best environment for every business. Our purpose is to think beyond space - strengthening those we serve and enhancing quality of life for our clients and employees. We are built to champion our clients’ aspirations through real estate. When considering partnership, we strive to connect with those who share our values:
Work Together, Create Value, Be Tenacious, Enhance Community, and Embrace Diversity
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We believe in being the change. We work together to find new ways of doing things that create value for our clients — and for each other. Because there is not much that feels better than collaborating to make a positive difference each day.

At Cresa, we offer an opportunity to be part of something bigger. To learn, advance, mentor and be recognized. Your voice will be heard, and you will be valued for both your individual and team contributions.

The Senior Manager, Transitions Lease Administration oversees the onboarding, transition, and integration of lease administration portfolios, including acquisitions, dispositions, and client onboarding/offboarding initiatives. This role is accountable for transition strategy, execution, and governance, ensuring operational continuity, data integrity, and compliance across complex client portfolios.

This position combines expertise in project management, lease administration, data migration, process implementation, and client service delivery. The role serves as a subject matter expert in lease abstraction, financial reconciliation, system integration, and transition governance, while partnering with clients, brokers, and cross-functional teams to deliver seamless and high-quality transition outcomes. This position reports to the Director of Transitions.

• Oversee training plan for new and/or advancing employees in the group. Participate as a subject matter expert in training plan for other groups.
• Help gather specific metrics as requested for discussion in meetings with Senior Management Group:
  • Routine deliverable and company initiative completion status
  • Assigned project completion status
  • Lease quota and assignments to keep team aligned to measurement
  • Need for resources or resource shifts within the team
  • Workflow review and expense one-time tie-out confirmation with a focus on Processed By;
    Dates;
    Process Stage;
    Accuracy;
    Processing Notes
  • Oversite of key client deliverables – recapping yearly performance, compiling data and communicating effectively with clients on these deliverables.
• Ensure Client deliverables are met including:
  • High data quality
  • Data is processed in a timely fashion
  • Doc log is current with no or minimal delinquent work
• Perform monthly reporting control checklists for a designated group of accounts
• Attend monthly client calls and ensure issues raised, solutions offered, and follow-ups communicated
• Participate in quarterly company meetings by presenting topics /ideas as requested
• Identify income-generating and savings opportunities or expense reductions
• Identify and groom employees for supervision or account manager roles within the group or department
• Use Lease Admin tools:
  Weekly plan, billing workbooks, onboarding book, procedures manuals, workflow system reports
• Additional tasks or responsibilities as requested /required.
• Assist with sales process
• Assist with client contracts, renewals, amendments, work orders etc.
• Assist with Employee Onboarding & Offboarding
• Perform or…