Lease Analyst

The work involves analyzing commercial leases — extracting and modeling the financial obligations they create, benchmarking costs against market rates, and helping landlords, tenants, or asset managers understand what their lease portfolios actually mean in financial terms. This is more analytical than lease administration: you're building models, running scenarios, and forming opinions on lease value, not just tracking critical dates.

A significant portion of the work involves accounting for leases under ASC 842 or IFRS 16 — calculating right-of-use assets and lease liabilities, determining whether a lease is operating or finance, and producing the amortization schedules and disclosures that go into financial statements. For companies with large portfolios, this is technically demanding work that requires fluency in the accounting standards and the modeling skills to execute them accurately.

The legal reading component is ongoing: leases are long, defined-term-heavy documents, and your analysis is only as good as your ability to correctly interpret what each clause actually requires. A percentage rent clause, a co-tenancy provision, or a tenant improvement allowance structure each has financial implications that have to be correctly modeled, not approximated.