Senior Lease Analyst

Benderson Development • Buffalo, NY

12h • $75,000 - $95,000 • Onsite

About The Position

A Senior Lease Analyst manages an organization’s lease portfolio by interpreting complex contracts, abstracting key data, and tracking critical dates, renewals, and rent changes, to ensure legal and financial compliance. They bridge accounting, legal, and property management teams to process payments, reconcile CAM/taxes, and analyze lease profitability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business, English preferred, or equivalent experience.
• A minimum of 1 year of experience in lease administration, real estate, or administrative role.
• 1-3 years’ experience with Lease administration, contracts or a real estate background.
• High attention to detail, strong analytical capabilities, and ability to manage tight deadlines.
• Proactive and clear communication skills that bridge the gaps between landlords, tenants, and internal teams to explain complex lease language.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Excel, MRI.

Responsibilities

• Review and interpret complex lease language to extract key dates (renewals, expires) and financial obligations into databases. Updating MRI system with lease terms and documents.
• Foster and train junior employees and review work production by Junior Lease Analysts.
• Calculate and process monthly rent, CAM (common area maintenance) charges, taxes, percentage rent, maintenance expenses, and insurance reconciliations.
• Conduct audits to ensure adherence to contractual terms and minimize financial risk.
• Work closely with legal, leasing, accounting, property management, construction accounting, and insurance to ensure compliance with lease terms.
• Investigate discrepancies and responsibilities of the lease terms with tenants internally as well as provide reports and rent rolls for executive team.
• Perform collaborative review lease process to ensure accuracy and consistency. Assist in workflow coordination of junior analyst lease processing.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level