Senior Lease Administrator, Rent Lead

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The Senior Lease Admin., Client Lead- RENT is responsible for managing Lease Administration functions and implementations, client and vendor relationships, and centralizing, establishing and producing schedules, reports, communication plans, and process flow for the Lease Administration team. This position primarily manages medium to large accounts characterized by high complexity, often within a global account management framework, with an emphasis on global rent presentment or rent payment activities.

• Serve as the main point of contact for clients and internal stakeholders regarding global lease administration matters.

• Understand client business objectives, real estate portfolio strategy, and service expectations.

• Maintain thorough understanding of client agreements for assigned accounts including boundaries of scope of work, fee structure, billing frequency and payee information. Ensure this information has been correctly entered and maintained as a client contract in Work Trac.

• Conduct regular meetings and reviews with clients to present portfolio updates, key metrics, and performance reports.

• Develop and maintain strong client governance programs such as reporting cadence, communication methods, business reviews, etc.

• Track, maintain, and communicate all expirations, option exercise dates, and other critical information.

• Drive toward achieving a net promoter score representative of strong service delivery and client relationships.

• Manage client escalations and ensure timely resolution of issues.

• Proactively identify account related risks and formulate appropriate mitigation strategies; project manage through solution.

• Oversee and ensure global team is delivering services per the client specific process and contract.

• Participate in presentations to new or existing clients for new business pitches.

• Manage assignments and delegation of database management tasks to global team members.

• Establish weekly calls and ongoing internal communications cadence with global lease admin account team members to review work, discuss outstanding issues and determine appropriate actions.

• Prepare and lead with impactful communication and professional presence.

• Foster effective communication and demonstrate professional presence, actively engaging with all team members to promote a collaborative environment.

• General understanding of AI technology and openness to adapting to the evolution of technology.

• Oversee the abstraction or input of rental obligations related to leases and all other important lease information as stipulated by client abstraction standards for assigned accounts.

• Provide final QC for abstraction process as may be required for assigned accounts.

• Demonstrate working knowledge of Colliers
  360, dashboards, Work Trac, etc.

• Confirm and approve monthly client billing. Responsible for ensuring that all pass-through expenses are billed in accordance with contract and internal process.

• Responsible for vendor management including review and validation of invoices against lease terms, identifying discrepancies and partnering with vendors to resolve variances.

• Review recovery clauses, set up recovery pools, calculate actual recovery expenses for each tenant, and review caps, base years, and non-standard exclusions.

• Prepare and review lease-related financial statements, disclosures, reports, and monthly rental payment schedules and reconciliations as required.

• Produce variance reports comparing budgeted versus actual rent obligations.

• Experience overseeing 3rd party utility management payments.

• Track and collaborate on TI allowance disbursements / landlord obligation fulfillment.

• Manage and…