Lease Analyst - Revenue (Bilingual)

BGIS; Montreal; Hybrid; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading facility management provider is hiring a full-time bilingual Lease Analyst / Revenue Accountant in Montreal. This role involves managing lease terms, rent collection, and financial reporting. The successful candidate will have relevant experience and skills in financial analysis, and work both independently and as part of a team.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years of job-related experience.
• Strong customer focus.
• Ability to read and understand commercial real estate lease agreements.

Responsibilities

• Reviews lease agreements and abstracts key information.
• Prepares monthly revenue reporting as outlined in contractual requirements.
• Conducts annual review of operating costs budget increases.

Skills

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Communication

Problem-solving

Education

University degree or professional certification

Tools

MS Excel

MS Word

MS Outlook

Job description

Who We Are

BGIS is a leading provider of customized facility management and real estate services. With our combined team of over 6, 500 globally, we relentlessly focus on enabling innovation through the services we deliver, while actively looking for new opportunities that will enable innovation for our clients’ businesses. Globally, we manage over 320 million square feet of client portfolios across 30,000+ locations in North America, Europe, Middle East, Australia and Asia. Further information is available at www.bgis.com

We are looking to have a full-time bilingual (French/English) Lease Analyst / Revenue Accountant join our team! This position can be held hybrid from our offices in Markham, ON, Ottawa, ON or Montreal, QC.

SUMMARY

TheLease Revenue Analyst (Revenue Accountant), in conjunction with our Real Lease technology platform, supports our clients nationwide in effectively and efficiently managing their owned portfolio. From abstracting critical lease terms, to accurate collection of rents, to critical reconciliation of tenant billings, to regular review and reporting to providing critical analysis of commercial tenant profiles, our services provide our client maximum leverage and flexibility in transaction based relationships.

KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Lease Abstraction

• Reviews lease agreements and abstracts key information including but not limited to lease provisions, clauses, options and critical dates, property information, business, legal and financial agreements and obligations, terms and conditions.
• Enters and maintains lease agreement information within lease management database. Responsible for data integrity of lease information.

Rent Collection and Reporting

• Prepares monthly revenue reporting as outlines in Contractual requirements.
• Provide guidance and support to other team members in Data Management in RealLease.
• Assist in monthly Rent Roll review and commentary.
• Assist in overseeing rent deposit functions and reporting to mitigate risk and errors.
• Complete Accounts Receivable management of collections, depositing and reporting on Tenant billings, payments an arrears.
• Prepare and maintain Monthly forecasting.
• Variance analysis reporting on 3rd party billings vs 3rd party collections.
• Budget assumption development and forecasting for 5 year plan, conducted 2 times in a year.
• Review and maintain Parking Revenue Management structure and assist in ensuring data integrity in the system.

Additional Rent Review

• Conducts annual review of operating costs budget increases (i.e. grounds maintenance cost, realty taxes = “additional rent”) to be charged to the 3rd Party Tenant. Compares forecast against historical information to review reasonableness of budget increase. Verifies reasons for proposed budget increases and respond to inquiries from Tenants. \
• Prepares year-end reconciliations, year-end CPI adjustments, ensure recoveries are accurate and complete.
• Makes recommendations on expenditure concerns as well as on procedures and systems related to BGIS.

Knowledge & Skills

• University degree or professional certification
• 3 to 5 years of job-related experience
• Good financial understanding and proficiency with MS Excel, Word and Outlook.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to work independently as well as on a team.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure.
• Strong customer focus
• Ability to read and understand commercial real estate lease agreements
• Ability to process volumes of data requiring strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Advanced English reading and writing skills

Licenses and/or Professional Accreditation

• Real Property Administrator designation would be considered an asset

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