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Royalty Services (UK) have an exciting opportunity for an experienced finance and people manager to join them on a full-time permanent basis.

This role is responsible for leading the Rights teams to ensure that where we have sub-licensed publishing rights, the contracts are set up correctly in the system and the Licensee’s statements and payments reflect the contractual terms and are processed accurately and efficiently.

We are looking for someone with excellent attention to detail and great communication as this position liaises with our Licensees and stakeholders across the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Learn all aspects of rights contracts, statement and income processing and credit control to be an expert in this area
• Work with the team leaders to review processes and ensure that tasks are carried out accurately and efficiently. This includes reviewing workload and KPIs and producing statistics for business review
• Attend regular meetings with other stakeholders including right’s sales colleagues and finance colleagues in the London offices
• Ensure that all processes are documented and kept up to date and that tasks have adequate cover within the teams
• Work with the other managers to ensure that the Author’s periodic accounting is accurate
• Reconcile rights cash processed on a daily basis
• Review and action exception reports such as tax calculations and write offs
• Work closely with the Rights Audit Analysts to identify and contact licensees for audit, provide support for any data issues, liaise with licensees for any queries and approve final audit reports
• Promote a positive and collaborative working environment with a hands-on approach
• Play an active role in change management within the department
• Carry out performance reviews for direct reports and organise training and personal development across the department to meet individual and business needs
• Carry out absence management interviews including monitoring where necessary
• Recommend changes to existing methods of working where efficiency, accuracy and reporting could be improved
• Promote Continuous Improvement, including efficiency of team workflows and support staff to embrace change
• This role will also play an active part in any projects affecting the department. This may include audit recommendations, acquisitions and system improvements

What you’ll bring:

Essential:

• 
  Proven management skills within a large finance team
• Audit analysis experience
• Can demonstrate previous experience in continuous improvement, able to identify opportunities for improving working practices and business systems
• Proven change management skills within a medium to large scale project
• Excellent communication and people skills with strong collaborative and influencing characteristics
• Able to work to a high standard of accuracy and can prioritise workloads effectively to meet deadlines and targets
• Microsoft Office in particular Excel, Word and Outlook

Desired:

• Experience of royalty and rights calculations or a similar function such as sales ledger or credit services
• An accounting qualification or qualified by experience
• Use of SAP

If this sounds like your next career opportunity, please apply with your CV and Cover Letter by 7th April 2023.

We’re currently experimenting with hybrid working and involving colleagues across the business to shape our future ways of working. The needs of our teams and individuals are different, so we’re not taking a one-size-fits-all approach. While our offices are places to connect, collaborate and celebrate with colleagues, we recognise that flexibility about where you work is just as important for doing your best work and for your wellbeing.

For this role, you will be expected to be in the office approximately twice a week, the exact hybrid working pattern will be discussed at interview stage.

What to expect from us:

Salary: £34,419 - £41,918 depending on how your skills and experience align to the role, plus benefits.

Our creativity is inspired by different perspectives, so we want our culture to be one of belonging, where everyone feels welcome and where differences are celebrated.

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we're part of the offer an interview scheme. This is where disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role can opt in to get to the next recruitment stage. There may be some situations where volume of applicants means we can't take all eligible candidates to interview.

We want to make sure disabled applicants can be their best at each step of the recruitment journey. If you need adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to get in touch with us at http://[email protected]. Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your adjustment request. Find out more about our approach here: http://www.penguinrandomhousecareers.co.uk/applying-for-roles-with-a-disability

We partner with The Book Trade Charity, who provide financial assistance for people looking to get into the publishing industry; you can find more information and talk directly here: https://btbs.org/grants

Please note, we are not able to accept agency CVs for this role. Any CVs sent speculatively will not be eligible for a fee.

Company: Penguin Books Limited

Country: United Kingdom

State/Region: Essex

City: Colchester

Postal Code: CO7 7DW

Job ID: 258630