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Amazon

Sells products online and rents cloud computing

Senior Real Estate Contract Manager - Japan Real Estate

Contract ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeTokyo, JapanNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 10 years of back-office or equivalent work experience.
  • Proficiency with Excel functions, Word, and PowerPoint.
  • Advanced Japanese proficiency for drafting and reading contracts and conducting meetings.
  • A four-year bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
  • Business-level English proficiency or approximately TOEIC 750.

Responsibilities

  • Review complex lease agreements and extract and analyze important information.
  • Understand nuances in contract terms and identify cost-optimization opportunities.
  • Manage registration and updates in the lease management system, Tango.
  • Review amendments and notices and reflect contract changes in the system.
  • Respond to internal and external inquiries, including escalations.
  • Independently track and manage lease expiration dates, renewal deadlines, and rent commencement dates for amended contracts.
  • Notify stakeholders of key dates to prevent missed renewals or expirations.
  • Prioritize and manage contract deadlines across multiple sites.
  • Process monthly payments for security deposits, rent, parking, utilities, and other charges according to internal policies.
  • Coordinate with Finance and Accounting to ensure accurate and timely payments.
  • Manage sublease contracts and process incoming payments.
  • Perform pre-approval checks and provide advice to prevent payment issues.
  • Create and manage team payment-processing performance metrics.
  • Secure appropriate budgets and prevent payment delays and contract violations.
  • Ensure compliance with internal payment policies and lease terms.
  • Support internal and external regulatory audits and compliance.
  • Participate in projects to enhance contract management system functionality and collaborate with global teams to advance system improvements.
  • Identify opportunities to improve business processes and increase efficiency.
  • Contribute to standardizing and optimizing contract management processes.
  • Apply and share team best practices and begin guiding other team members.
  • Coordinate with external partners, including landlords, real estate companies, and parking-contract providers, and internal teams.
  • Maintain accurate contract information for logistics sites throughout Japan.
  • Determine when to escalate issues to senior leaders and carry out escalations appropriately.
  • Review new-contract documents, open supplier accounts, and register information in the system.
  • Notify stakeholders of existing-contract expiration dates, review amendments, organize changes, reflect them in the system, and maintain information.
  • Process monthly payments and validate data.
  • Issue invoices and process incoming payments.
  • Participate in contract management system enhancement projects and coordinate with external partners.

Desired Qualifications

  • Back-office experience at a real estate-related company or in the real estate or finance department of an operating company.
  • Experience managing a team of approximately five people.
  • Experience in finance, accounts payable, or procurement.
  • Real estate transaction specialist qualification (宅地建物取引士).
  • Experience using commercial real estate software.

About the Company

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Amazon

Sells products online and rents cloud computing

Amazon runs the largest online store in the United States and rents cloud computing to businesses and governments through Amazon Web Services. AWS pioneered renting computing power over the internet, and Amazon built its own delivery network to get orders to customers quickly. Shoppers buy from Amazon and from independent sellers on its store, and Prime members pay a subscription for fast free shipping, streaming video and music, and other perks. AWS rents out computing power, storage, databases, and AI tools so companies can run software without owning servers, and Amazon also makes Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers with the Alexa assistant. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it is based in Seattle, Washington.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Seattle, WA
Founded
1994

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