Senior Lease Administration Associate & Abstractor

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan with company matching

Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision

Paid parental leave

Paid Time Off & Holidays

Daily Pay

Job summary

Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) seeks a Senior Lease Administration Associate & Abstractor to deliver lease abstraction and financial review across client portfolios. You will liaise with transition/regional teams, manage double-check processes, and maintain accurate lease data in CoStar and other platforms while fostering strong client relationships.

The role requires 3+ years in lease administration, solid Excel skills, and the ability to interpret complex lease language while ensuring timely,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in lease administration or related fields with lease abstraction expertise.
• Proficiency in lease administration databases and data interpretation.

Responsibilities

• Lease Abstraction: liaison with internal teams to obtain documents and abstract key information.
• Review CAM, taxes, rents, and invoices for accuracy.
• Manage data entry, validation, and lifecycle of lease documents.
• Prepare variance reports and assist in financial analysis for portfolios.
• Maintain client, vendor, and landlord relationships with a customer-first mindset.

Skills

Lease abstraction

Financial analysis

Attention to detail

Client relationship management

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

CoStar

Lease administration database

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook)

Job description

JLL empowers you to shape a brighter way.

Our people at JLL are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology for our clients. We are committed to hiring the best, most talented peopleand empowering them tothrive, grow meaningful careers and to find a place where they belong. Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward.

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.

With us, you’ll have a chance to innovate with the world’s leading businesses, put that expertise into action on landmark projects, and work on game-changing real estate initiatives. You’ll also make long-lasting professional connections and be inspired by the best. We’re focused on opportunity and want to help you make the most of yours. Achieve your ambitions—join us at JLL.

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

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

What you can expect from us

We succeed together—across the desk and around the globe and believe the best inspire the best, so we invest in supporting each other, learning together and celebrating our success.

Our Total Rewards program reflects our commitment to helping you achieve your career ambitions, recognizing your contributions, investing in your well-being and providing competitive benefits and pay.

We can’t wait to see where your ambitions take you at JLL.

This position does not provide visa sponsorship. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Expected compensation for this position:

60,000.00 – 65,000.00 USD per year

Final compensation packages are determined by various considerations including but not limited to candidate qualifications, location, market conditions, and internal considerations.

Location:

Remote –Pittsburgh, PA

Personalized benefits that support personal well-being and growth:

JLL recognizes the impact that the workplace can have on your wellness, so we offer a supportive culture and comprehensive benefits package that prioritizes mental, physical and emotional health. Some of these benefits include:

• 401(k) plan with matching company contributions
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision Care
• Paid parental leave at 100% of salary
• Paid Time Off and Company Holidays
• Early access to earned wages through Daily Pay

At JLL, we harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to efficiently accelerate meaningful connections between candidates and opportunities. Using AI capabilities, we analyze your application for relevant skills, experiences, and qualifications to generate valuable insights about how your unique profile aligns with the specific requirements of the role you’repursuing.

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