Royalty Accountant
Posted 7 days ago by Trace | Expert Accountancy & Finance Recruitment
£38,000 Per year
Undetermined
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Finance Royalties Analyst role is a 6-month fixed-term contract based in London, focusing on managing licensing deals and royalty reporting for an Entertainment Providers Group. The position requires a blend of financial accounting skills and knowledge of rights and contracts, ensuring timely reporting and accurate processing of royalties. The role is hybrid, allowing for a mix of on-site and remote work.
Key Responsibilities:
- Processing royalties statements onto the Royalties management system and ensuring advances and overages are accounted for correctly
- Track the timely submission of periodic reports and liaise with external contacts to request missing reports
- Identify and flag discrepancies to fix errors
- Track and process payments due to writers and third parties for agency clients (Rights People subdivision)
- Issuing Sales & Purchase invoices (when dealing with agency clients)
- Inputting publishers & writers agreement details, with special regard to advances and royalty rates
- Knowledge on Royalties principal contracts
- Liaising with the Finance Department as necessary
Key Skills:
- Previous experience in royalties
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills (VLOOKUP/PivotTables etc.)
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate at all levels
- Dynamic and driven to grow with the group
- Excellent organisational, communication and prioritisation skills
- Ability to process incoming royalty statements speedily and accurately
- Preferred system experience: Sage 200/AIQ and That's Right
Salary (Rate): £38,000.00 yearly
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Finance Royalties Analyst - 6 Month FTC - Likely to be Extended - Paying £38,000 - London Office - Hybrid Role
We are recruiting for an exciting Entertainment Providers Group who are seeking a Finance Royalties Assistant where you will focus on managing licensing deals and royalty reporting, ensuring that all royalty reports are received in a timely manner, that all key information is logged on the in-house Royalty system, any royalties income due is received in a quick and efficient manner, royalties payable are accounted for correctly. This position combines financial accounting (sales and purchase ledger) with understanding of rights and contracts.
- Responsibilities:
- Processing royalties statements onto the Royalties management system and ensuring advances and overages are accounted for correctly
- Track the timely submission of periodic reports and liaise with external contacts to request missing reports
- Identify and flagging discrepancies to fix errors
- Track and processing payments due to writers and third parties for agency clients (Rights People subdivision)
- Issuing Sales & Purchase invoices (when dealing with agency clients)
- Inputting publishers & writers agreement details, with special regard to advances and royalty rates
- Knowledge on Royalties principal contracts
- Liaising with the Finance Department as necessary
- Key Requirements:
- Previous experience in royalties
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills (VLOOKUP/PivotTables etc.)
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate at all levels
- Dynamic and driven to grow with the group
- Excellent organisational, communication and prioritisation skills
- Ability to process incoming royalty statements speedily and accurately
- Preferred system experience: Sage 200/AIQ and That's Right
If this sounds like you please do get in touch here or via my email bertie.cox@tracerecruit.com. Trace is an innovative recruitment consultancy. Our person organisation fit profiling tool the Predictive Fit Profiler is helping us fit our candidates with our clients from a personality behaviours motivations and cultural compatibility perspective. IND1