Real Estate Analyst

TDS•Chicago, IL

14d•Hybrid

About The Position

Are you ready to play a critical role at the heart of our wireless communications infrastructure? At Array Digital Infrastructure, a TDS Company, we're looking for a detail-driven Real Estate Analyst to help manage and optimize the foundation of our nationwide operations. In this role, you will be responsible for interpreting real estate leases and managing rent and all associated property-related payments. With your sharp eye, you will update our real estate system with lease administration information—ensuring data integrity and identifying opportunities to boost efficiency and drive process improvements. You will also maintain financial relationships with landlords and determine accurate computations for rental charges, Common Area Maintenance (CAM), property tax, and tenant improvement allowances. The Real Estate Analyst will lead the charge on our real estate budget, handle Certificates of Insurance (COI) requests, manage option payments, and own team metrics and reporting to keep performance targets on track. This role follows a hybrid schedule, with on-site work at our Chicago, IL office Monday through Wednesday, and the flexibility to work remotely from a home office on Thursdays and Fridays.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree in Business Administration, Finance or a related field -OR- 4+ years equivalent work experience
1+ years of experience in a real estate or finance related field.
1+ year of experience analyzing and aggregating large financial data sets

Nice To Haves

Experience with SAP and Tririga preferred
Experience with lease abstraction
Proficiency in Excel, including using and creating formulas
Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills, coupled with strong written and oral communication skills

Responsibilities

Accurately input lease information into lease management systems or databases.
Maintain Real Estate system for over 10K leases in accordance with SOX and accounting controls.
Organize and maintain digital and physical copies of lease files, abstracts, and related documentation.
Ensure accuracy and consistency of lease data; flag discrepancies, missing information, or conflicting terms for resolution.
Ensure compliance of lease insurance obligations, process certificates of insurance, and administer various lease changes.
Assist in ensuring compliance with lease terms and support internal reporting on lease obligations and timelines.
Analyze complex lease language to interpret financial and legal obligations and summarize them in a clear, concise format.
Review and extract key data points from lease documents, amendments, and other legal agreements, including rent schedules, term dates, renewal options, expense obligations, and critical clauses.
Analyze and reconcile lease-related Operating Expense, identifying exceptions to lease provisions.
Analyze and assess business results and identify, recommend, and drive process improvements.
Create models and collaborate with business partners to develop assumptions, and driving to targets.
Provide direction, support, and training to key business partners.
Work with legal, finance, property management, and leasing teams to clarify lease terms, support audits, or assist in due diligence.
Identify industry trends that impact our ability to provide needed financial expertise to our business partners.
Create ad hoc real estate reports when requested from the field and other internal and external clients.
Resolve financial lease issues between internal or external parties.
Reconcile tenant improvement allowances and property tax reimbursements to ensure accurate billing by USCC’s landlords.
Ensure rent payments of about $150M annually are processed.
Ensure tenants invoices of about $100M annually are processed
Perform special projects as assigned.