Senior Lease Administration Associate & Abstractor

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About JLL –
We’re JLL—a leading professional services and investment management firm specializing in real estate. We shape the future of real estate for a better world by using the most advanced technology to create rewarding opportunities, amazing spaces and sustainable real estate solutions for our clients, our people and our communities. As a Fortune 500 company, we help real estate owners, occupiers and investors achieve their business ambitions. We have nearly 300 corporate offices across 80 countries, with a team of more than 93,000 individuals and believe a diverse and inclusive culture is one where everyone succeeds. That’s why we’re committed to creating an environment where we all feel welcomed, valued and empowered to achieve our full potential.
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About JLL – Lease Administration
JLL's Lease Administration platform supports client needs ranging from lease abstraction and critical dates management to full financial management of landlord invoices and reconciliation audits — enabling clients to make strategic real estate decisions with confidence.
We are seeking a Senior Lease Administration Associate & Abstractor to join our team. This role provides comprehensive lease administration services including abstraction, financial review, and client support. You will work with a high level of independence while collaborating closely with internal teams to deliver accurate, timely services that enable our clients to make strategic real estate decisions.
What this job involves – Responsibilities “Being a trailblazer and breaking new ground”
As a Senior Lease Administration Associate & Abstractor, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality lease abstraction services while managing key Lease Administration responsibilities across client portfolios. You will work independently with a strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
This role requires a balance of technical abstraction expertise and broader lease administration competencies, including financial review, client relationship management, and process oversight. You will be a key player in ensuring accuracy and effective management of client lease portfolios, with exposure to the full breadth of our Lease Administration platform.
To be successful in this role, you should be able to ensure accurate reporting and reconciliation of information, and foster critical relationships between various individuals, teams, and clients.
As a Senior Lease Administration Associate & Abstractor, you will be responsible for comprehensive lease administration services including:
Lease Abstraction
Liaise with internal parties and transition/regional teams to obtain appropriate lease documentation
Perform lease document matching and review for completeness prior to abstraction
Abstract critical and key information from leases and other contract documentation into lease database systems (including CoStar and other platforms)
Accurately record lease document information into Master Document Control Logs and Document Trackers
Manage abstracts and system data; verify and review system reports and data for accuracy and completeness
Prepare area, cost-schedule, and events variance reports for validation projects
Work with internal stakeholders to resolve document and abstraction-related queries
Maintain processes and procedures ensuring adherence to internal and external compliance policies
Lease Administration
Coordinate abstractions from transition and regional teams; manage project assignment and tracking of the double-check process
Review CAM, other escalations, and real estate tax invoices
Review data entry, validation, and management of lease documents
Review rent variance analysis and rent payment processing
Review subtenant account management, and billing/collections of third-party tenant rents
Track and maintain critical milestone dates
Conduct financial analysis and volume trend reporting
Review landlord invoices for adherence to lease terms
Prepare invoices and support invoice processing workflows
Manage client, vendor, and landlord relationships with a "Customer First Mindset"
Partner with outsource providers as needed
Streamline current processes and drive efficiencies across the team
Client/vendor/landlord relationship management
Management of project abstraction services
Partnership with outsource providers
Invoice preparation
Support, exposure and leadership of other special projects as assigned by manager
Sound like you? To apply you need to be:The Candidate: Qualifications
Bachelor's degree required
Minimum 3 years of experience in lease administration, real estate accounting, or property management with exposure to commercial leases; lease abstraction expertise required
Prior experience with using a lease administration database preferred
Ability to interpret complex commercial lease language
Advanced financial/analytical skills
Ability to maintain a strong attention to detail with a continued high efficiency and accuracy rate for performing work/tasks
Ability to spot issues proactively and head them off and/or start the solutioning process
Ability to understand and interpret data and use of technology to be more efficient
Desire to learn and grow
The Candidate: Dynamic and Highly Skilled
You’ll need to be dynamic and technologically savvy and utilize software to support planning solutions and communicate ideas clearly with planning team and lines of business. You will be successful if you have advanced skills in Microsoft Excel to slice, dice, and filter large data sets. Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel & Outlook) and ability to consolidate data and master company specific account and database programs is highly valued. You’ll be effective in your role by learning to ask the right questions to understand the underlying needs of our clients. You will be accountable for delivery of projects against expectations, including on-budget and to outlined/agreed upon specifications. You’ll discover how to be proactive and innovative with solutions for your stakeholders.
The Candidate: Organized, Open and Flexible
Strong, proactive and effective communication skills are important – both written and spoken – and we’ll expect you to work independently, multi-task under pressure, and manage your time to meet deadlines. You keep on top of tasks and will remain agile, as you’ll often need to reorganize your time day to day, to deal with your team’s changing necessities and requests. An individual with strong interpersonal skills with an ability to interact with executive level external and internal clients will be successful in the role. Ability to build strong relationship and work within various internal teams. You will openly embrace change and have passionate for driving yourself, the team and the firm forward. Most importantly, you’ll want to work as part of a diverse, collaborative, driven and professional team.
Behavioral Competencies
Think Big - Thinks strategically, simplifies the complex, solves complex problems, sees the big picture
Drive Change - Thrives on change, learning agility, intellectually curious, appetite for risks, digital drive
Helps others - Builds relationships, actively collaborates, helps others succeed.
Get it done - Acts decisively, drives results, passion to win, takes ownership, accountable, resilient
Business first - Focuses on customers and clients, business/financial acumen, JLL first
Inspire - Inspire others, creates vision and strategy, energizes others
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