Royalty Analyst

Marc Daniels; London Borough of Islington; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Marc Daniels is seeking a Finance Business Partnering professional to manage royalty reporting and financial partnering for a leading brand licensing agency. The role involves processing invoices, collaborating with AP/AR, and supporting quarterly royalty projections.

The ideal candidate is part-qualified with a degree, proficient in MS Excel, and able to translate licensing contracts into financial actions while liaising with international and domestic stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Part-qualified or equivalent experience.
• Degree in a relevant discipline.
• Licensing/handling royalties experience.
• Translating contractual terms into accounting actions.
• Experience of Finance Business Partnering, and Accounting / AP / AR.
• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to communicate with international and domestic clients.

Responsibilities

• Client Reporting: manage royalty statements, invoicing and client remittances.
• Accounting: process supplier invoices, post month-end journals, reconcile variances.
• Finance Reporting: support quarterly royalty projections and variance analysis.
• Other: provide absence cover and ad-hoc analysis.

Education

Degree

Tools

MS Excel

Job description

An exciting opportunity to work for the global leader in brand licensing, managing licensing programs for the world's best-known brands and trademarks. With over 25 offices worldwide, this company provides a unique one-stop-solution for innovative brand growth across a diverse portfolio of clients from business, entertainment, fashion, food, gaming and sports.

Based on site 3/4 days a week, and working as part of a dynamic and friendly team, you will be responsible for all aspects of finance business partnering for a brand licensing agency.

This includes collecting and processing royalty reports, arranging invoices and client remittances, interpreting licensing contracts, assisting with General Ledger reconciliations and supporting both internal and external stakeholders.

This is a full-time role that will challenge and allow the right person to grow at the same time.

Client Reporting

• Facilitating the timely collection & processing of royalty statements / sales projections from Licensees, ensuring accurate invoices of royalties are raised and shared with Licensees
• Ensuring client payments are accurate, complete and sent in a good timely manner, as well as fulfilling reporting obligations as per Client Representation Agreements
• Monitoring receivables and liaising with Credit Control and Licensing Commercial teams to achieve timely collection of royalties
• Assisting with internal financial queries as well as those from licensees, clients and auditors when required (e.g. process structure, required documentation, calculation breakdowns).

Accounting

• Processing supplier invoices and liaising with Accounts Payable to arrange timely payments.
• Posting month-end journals, including revenue / cost accruals, bad debt provisions and write-offs.
• Performing reconciliations and assisting with monthly management reports as required (COS and G&A analysis, reserve analysis, revenue variances).

Finance Reporting

• Assisting the senior finance team with preparing quarterly royalty projections and analysis.
• Continuously seeking for process improvements.

Other Responsibilities

• Providing absence cover for other members of the Finance Team.
• Supporting the Finance Team with ad-hoc analysis and reports. You Have These:
• Part-qualified or equivalent experience.
• Degree
• Licensing/handling royalties
• Translating contractual terms
• Experience of Finance Business Partnering, and Accounting / AP / AR experiences
• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to communicate well with a broad spectrum of international and
• domestic clients.
• High attention to detail, accurate and analytical. Ability to work under pressure and prioritise
• workload.
• High level of numeracy.
• Intermediate to advanced MS excel skills (e.g. VLOOKUPs, SUMIFs etc.)