Position Overview: 

• The Lease Administrator will work closely with our clients to help support across all lease management areas. The tasks will cover abstraction, system updates and liaising with landlords.  The Lease Admin will work on various projects as they arise, providing the chance to learn new systems, processes and procedures. The below responsibilities are not an exhaustive list, and each one could contain more sub-tasks.

Responsibilities: 

• This position will assist in administering all levels of Lease Administration and special projects as needed by management.
• Assist with abstraction of key data points from leases.
• Assist with creating leasing data in relevant system(s), whilst also running business processes (indexation to uplift rent, show clients commitments to landlords etc).
• Assist with client reporting e.g. scheduling key events reporting and discussing with clients in detail.
• Acting on behalf of our clients to liaise with Landlords, requesting copies of invoices to reconcile against what they should be paying according to their lease and challenging where necessary.
• Support with system administration activities including user maintenance, updating configuration, customising the system etc.
• Support with running IFRS16 calculation in the system (post lease update activity).
• Service charge reconciliation.
• Uploading sales data and calculating turnover rent (for Retail clients).
• Understanding clients’ portfolios to be the main contact point for internal and external lease related enquiries.
• Assisting with sub-leasing portfolio to cover activities such as, raising tenant invoices, posting receipts and providing aging reports.

Requirements: 

• Must be able to work during UK hours and South African public holidays (you will receive take UK bank holidays instead of SA bank holidays).
• 2-4 years’ experience as a Lease Administrator with focused on Occupiers in the commercial sector
• Ability to communicate effectively with clients, peers, and management through written and/or verbal communication.
• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to work under deadlines.
• Good organisational skills and the ability to manage priorities.
• A high degree of dependability, motivation and flexibility.

Nice to have:

• Experience using MRI Software applications.
• Legal background
• Understanding of Property & Lease Management processes & principles.
• Comfortable with System Administration tasks (non-technical).
• Knowledge of Turnover Rent and / or IFRS16.
• Previous experience with client facing roles.