Royalty Audit Assistant (12-Month Ftc)

We have an exciting opportunity for a Royalty Audit Assistant to join our Royalties team in Frating, Essex. If you enjoy working with data, investigating discrepancies and using analysis to get to the bottom of financial information, this could be a great opportunity to develop your experience in a supportive team.

The Role

Supporting the Royalty Audit Analyst, you’ll review third-party royalty reporting, undertake audit and quality assurance activities, and analyse and reconcile data to help identify potential discrepancies. Your analysis will help inform audit planning and investigations, while you’ll also take ownership of recovering income arising from overseas tax deductions, liaising with both internal colleagues and external stakeholders.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the recovery of excess tax deducted from German sublicensees, including obtaining appropriate documentation from third parties and completing refund applications through overseas tax portals.
• Support the analysis and recovery of tax deducted on Ventures income from overseas sub-agents, liaising with internal and external stakeholders as required.
• Support royalty audits through the analysis and reconciliation of data provided by third-party licensees, including recalculating royalty figures and comparing sales data to royalty statements.
• Analyse selected high-value author and brand royalty statements, identifying anomalies and providing analysis to support the Royalty Audit Analyst's risk-based audit planning.
• Undertake quality assurance checks on cash and royalty statements processed within the system, identifying and escalating errors or anomalies to the Royalty Audit Analyst.
• Track and monitor agreed improvements arising from royalty audit reviews, following up actions and escalating outstanding items where appropriate.

What you’ll bring

Essential criteria:

• Good numerical and analytical skills, with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Good Excel skills and confidence working with and reconciling large datasets.
• Experience of working with financial, royalty or other transactional data.
• Ability to identify discrepancies and anomalies and clearly document findings.
• Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to liaise effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
• Takes a curious and questioning approach, investigating differences and seeking guidance where appropriate.

Preferred criteria:

• Experience of royalty calculations or royalty-based contracts would be desirable but is not essential.

Salary

The salary for this opportunity will be £28,500, plus bonus and benefits.

Hybrid working

While our offices across the UK are places to connect, collaborate and celebrate with colleagues, we recognise that flexibility around where you work is just as important. For this role we expect that you will work from our office in Frating, Essex, at least one day per week.