Remote Senior Director, Royalty & Product Finance

Evolent; Augusta (ME); Remote; USD 138,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cengage, a global education technology company, seeks a Sr Director of Royalty and Product Finance to lead payments, data strategy, and data governance for royalty systems and product metadata. You will manage a team across royalty modeling, data setup, and reporting, partnering with finance and operations to drive compliant, scalable processes.

You will build processes, lead analyses for senior leaders, and drive improvements across multiple systems while mitigating risk and controlling costs.

Qualifications

• Four-year college degree in finance, accounting, business, or related field.
• 7+ years of professional experience including corporate, team, and program leadership.
• Experience in professional services or cross-functional leadership.
• Experience with SAP, PIM, Vistex.
• 3+ years of people management.
• Ability to work in a matrix organization and deliver outcomes.
• Strong writing and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead and nurture the group responsible for issuing timely and accurate contributor/author payments and maintaining/updating royalty models to reflect new strategies
• Build and scale new processes by forming a deep understanding of Cengage's processes, systems/tools, personnel, and strategic direction
• Define, structure, and complete improvement initiatives by developing work plans, collecting and synthesizing relevant data, leading analyses, and developing meaningful recommendations. Present these findings to executive-level leaders.
• Lead critical analyses and special projects to resolve contributor issues
• Coordinate all aspects of data setups across all Cengage content data systems (i.e. royalty system IPM Fadel, PIM, SAP, Fedel etc.)
• Collaborate with business managers, finance leaders, and operations leaders to deliver timely and accurate reporting that supports business operational needs

Skills

Leadership

Data analysis

Project management

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, or related field

Tools

SAP

PIM

Vistex

Job description

Cengage, a global education technology company, seeks a Sr Director of Royalty and Product Finance to lead payments, data strategy, and data governance for royalty systems and product metadata. You will manage a team across royalty modeling, data setup, and reporting, partnering with finance and operations to drive compliant, scalable processes.

You will build processes, lead analyses for senior leaders, and drive improvements across multiple systems while mitigating risk and controlling costs.