Lease Auditor Professional

4 days ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom CBRE Full time

Company Overview

CBRE is the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment company, with leading market positions in leasing, property sales, outsourcing, property management and valuation businesses.

Estimated Salary:$80,000 - $110,000 per annum

Job Description

The Lease Auditor role is a key part of our Occupier Accounts team, responsible for conducting lease audits for corporate clients to identify, negotiate and recoup potential savings.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Technical & Operational
  • Audit and reconcile all financial considerations including service charges, insurance recharges, base rent, turnover rent, works deposits and capital allowances.
  • Troubleshoot/dispute resolution through lease language regarding specific issues.
  • Prepare individual lease audit reports consistent with each client's scope of work.
  • Communicate and negotiate with landlords to enforce compliance of lease obligations.
  • Work closely with client legal department in interpretation of lease clauses for purposes of ensuring landlord/tenant compliance with lease terms.
  • Coordinate and lead recurring lease audit status meetings with clients and account teams.
  • Supervise 3rd party auditors on other lease audit projects as needed.
  • Manage and prepare reports for clients including a lease master audit saving and cost avoidance reports.
  • Liaising with various internal and external stakeholders to achieve the role responsibilities.
  • Conduct audit service across UK, Europe and in some cases rest of the world with support, where required, from in country expertise both in-house and/or 3rd party.

Business Development and Client Management

Participate in client solutioning and pitches

Manage client contracting discussions alongside legal and leadership teams

Business Management

Form part of team to setup lease audit services for UK, EMEA, APAC and LATM regions.

Responsible for assisting other team members passing on knowledge and skills particularly to new members of staff.

Undertaking project work to support re-engineering or efficiency improvement.

Required Skills and Qualifications

  • Full professional proficiency in English
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Proactive, self-starter, strong problem-solving and decision-making skills
  • Strong oral and written skills, ability to draft professional business letters gauged to document and most importantly convince the landlord of the inaccuracy of their methodologies.
  • Must be familiar with lease terminology and have the ability to interpret lease provisions and to understand legal documents.
  • Understanding of the service charge end to end process as well as RICS guidelines.
  • Understanding of Real Estate transactions
  • Advance Proficiency in MS Excel and MS PowerPoint
  • Attention to detail
  • Ability to work under pressure and to strict deadlines
  • Relationship management
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Numerical and analytically minded
  • Proficiency in an additional language (French, Spanish or German) will be considered beneficial
  • Property/Lease auditing experience across EMEA, APAC & LATM regions will be considered beneficial

Benefits

When you join CBRE, you'll realize your potential with challenging work, fast-paced assignments, an environment of constant learning and commitment to results. We provide the best tools, training and leaders in the industry.

Others

We are an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.


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