Deputy Manager - Lease Administration

We are seeking a Senior Analyst to join our organization. The organization develops and manages business service centers to execute accounting and transactional activities resulting in efficiency, quality, and enhanced strategic decision support. The Senior Analyst analyzes the financial aspects of leases, obtaining supporting documentation, coordinating with other groups, and overseeing the progress, by reviewing for accuracy the work performed by vendors and more junior coworkers, of contract-related projects and audits in accordance with internal policies and relevant GAAP guidance. The Senior Analyst oversees and executes a wide range of lease accounting projects to enhance the Company's lease accounting systems and procedures. The Analyst will design and implement training initiatives for other analysts and stakeholders. The Analyst will identify lease data integrity issues and recommend solutions to improve the accuracy of data and timeliness of financial reporting.

Job Description:

• Organize and oversee cross-organizational projects that impact land and tenant lease data; effectively communicate processes and collaborate on best practices

• Deliver training and support to abstraction teams related to ground leases.

• Direct and develop non-routine testing of the accuracy of lease data and the resulting accounting adjustments.

• Support the IT department, corporate office, and other worldwide operating businesses with lease accounting projects enhancements, lease review projects, and audit planning.

• Review key financial terms of various contracts to support internal customers needs.

• Analyze and interpret leases to identify clauses that help assess and manage the Company’s financials, including terms such as term length, termination rights, and billing amounts.

• Perform lease audits on loaded contracts by reviewing and interpreting contracts’ financial terms and comparing that information to what is maintained in the ERP system, to ensure that financial terms were processed correctly

• Understand and extrapolate a contract’s lease information, and how it relates to accounting concepts such as straight-line expenses, liability calculations, and lease classification

• Analyze requests to correct/change information from existing contracts that is maintained in the ERP system; support internal customers with post revision financial information

• Support the design and build of financial presentations and both customized and boilerplate reports for collecting, analyzing, and summarizing contract information

• Research contract questions or inquiries for internal customers and perform intermediate contract research for management

• Organize and oversee cross-organizational projects that impact land and tenant lease data; effectively communicate processes and collaborate on best practices

• Execute clean-up plans to correct lease data and collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure data accuracy aligned with best practices and supporting guidance, including SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures)