Royalties & Licensing Accountant
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Leicester | Full-time | Office-based | Circa £45,000
Previous royalties experience is essential.
Cedar is working with a well-established international business operating across the licensed consumer products sector, to recruit a Royalties & Licensing Accountant to join their finance team in Leicester.
This is a specialist role with responsibility for the full royalty accounting process across a portfolio of licences. You'll work closely with internal stakeholders, licensors and external auditors, combining financial analysis with commercial and contractual understanding.
About the Role
You'll take ownership of the end-to-end royalty process, including:
- Preparing and distributing monthly, quarterly and semi-annual royalty statements.
- Managing the timely receipt and processing of licensor royalty statements.
- Reviewing, validating and approving royalty invoices.
- Analysing and summarising large volumes of royalty data for licensors.
- Using Excel to manipulate, analyse and reconcile high volumes of data.
- Producing monthly and quarterly royalty analysis and reporting.
- Supporting the reconciliation and clearance of royalty-related balance sheet accounts.
- Preparing and distributing royalty forecast reports.
- Acting as a key point of contact for internal and external royalty queries.
- Supporting and managing the end-to-end licensor audit process, including data collection, compliance, query resolution and settlement calculations.
- Carrying out detailed reviews of licensing agreements to identify financial, operational and contractual risks.
- Interpreting contract clauses and highlighting potential risks, ambiguities or unfavourable terms.
- Supporting internal and compliance audits across key licences.
- Building effective relationships with licensors and other external stakeholders.
- Identifying opportunities to improve processes, controls and reporting.
Person Specification
Royalties experience is essential. We're looking for someone who can demonstrate:
- Previous experience within a royalties, licensing or similar finance environment.
- Strong Excel skills, including VLOOKUPs and Pivot Tables.
- Confidence working with large volumes of financial data.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience working with financial audits.
- The ability to interpret and understand contractual and licensing terms.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- A proactive approach to improving processes and controls. xiskglj
- The ability to manage multiple priorities and work to tight deadlines.
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