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WHSmith North America · 14 hours ago

Lease Compliance & Reporting Specialist

Las Vegas, NV

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$70K/yr - $80K/yr

4+ years exp

WHSmith North America is a leading global travel retailer with over 1,700 stores across 30 countries. The Lease Compliance & Reporting Specialist will manage the end-to-end process of lease compliance and reporting, ensuring accurate tracking and reporting for retail locations while collaborating with external CPA firms and internal teams.

Retail

Hiring Manager

Terra Nicholson

Responsibilities

Read and interpret legal terms from contracts and leases, to capture the requirements, obligations, key dates, and deliverables

Pull sales, transactions, and POS data from multiple systems (APTOS, APTOS Analytics, Dynamics GP, ESKER, BI tools, payment platforms)

Consolidate data in audit-ready workbooks; maintain clear audit trails

Coordinate with the external CPA firm: kickoff, PBC (prepared-by-client) list fulfillment, questions, and status tracking

Review draft audit findings; follow up on discrepancies

Secure final audit reports and transmit them to each landlord per lease requirements

Produce and reconcile monthly gross sales reports for all stores

Compute percentage rent; investigate anomalies; obtain internal approvals

Produce and deliver reports based on Landlord requirements (sales schedule, rent calculation, support data files)

Extract prior-week sales by concept/location

Map transactions to airport-specific reporting templates

Submit reports through airport portals or email ahead of contractual deadlines

Document SOPs; keep a robust calendar of due dates

Identify manual touchpoints that can be automated; partner with IT / BI on tool enhancements

Write reporting specifications for IT development

Maintain SOX-compliant controls around revenue data and landlord communications

Act as the single point of contact for landlords, airport authorities, Operations, Accounting, and Legal on audit and lease-reporting matters

Train store and finance teams on data-accuracy expectations

Be able to understand and discuss with commercial and operational teams about products, styles, departments, divisions, and other retail-related variables that can affect rental calculations or reports

Qualification

Revenue auditLease complianceAdvanced ExcelSQLBI toolsERP/POS familiarityPublic accountingBusiness AnalyticsData wranglingAudit package compilationTraining teams