Royalty Administrator - Frating, United Kingdom - Penguin Books Limited

Penguin Books Limited

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Frating, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

At Penguin Random House, Finance plays a key role in our business from our publishing to group accounting and reporting.

We are recruiting a Royalty Administrator (internally known as a Royalty Analyst) to join our friendly and supportive Royalties team based at our Distribution centre in Frating, Colchester.

If you're a team player with excellent attention to detail, this could be the role for you.

Working within Group Accounts, the Royalty department is responsible for receiving, processing and paying royalty payments due to authors, agents and client publishing companies.

In this role, you will have ownership of accurately interpreting and inputting the financial elements of the contract between Penguin Random House and the author.

Your key responsibilities will include:

Reviewing reports to ensure all sales are captured correctly and manually adjusting sales records where necessary
Adding special sales royalty rates to the system
Maintaining the accuracy of the contracts in the system and ensuring amendments are made promptly
Querying unusual contract clauses with the contracts department
Assisting in the Manual Licensing Statement accounting process, liaising with external licensees
Reviewing and analysing both internal and external royalty statements for accuracy and recalculating statements after rate amendments

This role will suit someone who is team focused and self-motivated.

You will be confident working in a larger team whilst also completing your own projects to a consistently high standard to meet deadlines.

You'll be able to process high levels of data accurately and will take a structured approach to planning and organising your workload.

You'll have a strong administrative background with good working knowledge of MS Office, particularly Excel, Outlook and Word.

This a hybrid role, with a mixture of working from home and working from the office in Frating, Colchester. Working patterns will be discussed at interview stage.

If this sounds like your next challenge, please submit your CV and Cover Letter by midnight Friday 7th July.

Salary:
crica £22,800 depending on how your skills and experience align to the role, plus benefits.

Our employees are the heart of our business.

We have a range of benefits to reflect our commitment to our employees, some of which are:

27 days paid holiday entitlement in year one (plus bank holidays), increasing a day each year up to 30 days
Medical cover
Life assurance
Cycle to Work scheme
Discounted gym membership
Generous pension scheme
Summer working hours (role dependent)
Volunteering policy and charity matching
Employee Assistance programme
Mentoring programme
Extended gender neutral parental leave
Access to books and eBooks across Penguin Random House UK
Each site has trained mental health first aiders
We plant a tree for every new employee to our business

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.
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:
Frating

Postal Code:
CO7

Job ID: 261246