Hiring: Manager, Lease Compliance & Audits Company: Federal Realty Investment Trust Location: North Bethesda, MD Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 12:03:32 Target Skills & Keywords : Microsoft Excel, Salesforce About the job Experience: •5+ years of progressive commercial real estate lease administration, property accounting, or lease audit experience, including direct responsibility for CAM and real estate tax reconciliations and disputes. Required Skills: •Serve as the primary owner for CAM, real estate tax, insurance, and other recoverable expense disputes raised by tenants, tenant representatives, and third-party lease auditors – managing the workflow from intake to closure. •Ensure dispute handling and reconciliation practices comply with lease terms, company policy, and applicable accounting and internal control requirements. •Prepare clear, well-supported written responses, reconciliation backup, and settlement proposals; negotiate resolutions directly with tenants and their auditors within delegated authority. •Establish and enforce turnaround standards and response deadlines, including lease-mandated audit and dispute notice periods, so the company preserves its contractual position. •Track root causes of disputes — lease abstraction errors, expense pool misclassification, gross-up methodology, pro-rata share calculations, cap and base-year application, exclusions — and drive corrective action to prevent recurrence. •Act as the day-to-day operational lead for the co-source lease administration partner, assigning work, setting priorities, and clarifying requirements and expected outputs. •Review co-source deliverables for accuracy and completeness, including lease abstracts, dispute research packages, reconciliation backup, and system data entry. •Provide technical guidance and lease-interpretation support to Lease Administrators, resolving questions on ambiguous or non-standard language and setting consistent treatment across the portfolio. Qualifications: •Bachelor’s degree required, Accounting, Real Estate, Business Administration or a related field preferred. •Demonstrated ability to interpret complex commercial lease documents and apply that interpretation to billing and recovery outcomes. •Hands-on experience resolving tenant billing disputes and responding to third-party lease audits. •Strong Excel skills (pivot tables, lookups, large data sets) and experience with lease administration or property management systems (e.g., JD Edwards, Yardi, MRI, Salesforce, or comparable). •Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical lease and expense positions clearly to tenants, auditors, and non-technical internal partners. •Proven organizational skills and the ability to manage a high volume of concurrent matters against deadlines. •Federal Realty Investment Trust does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Federal Realty Investment Trust and Federal Realty Investment Trust will not be obligated to pay a placement fee. •If you are unable to submit your application online, please call 301-998-8100. Compensation: •$120,000 - $135,000 / year •Salary Range: The typical pay range is $120,000-$135,000 a year plus bonus Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!