Royalties Administrator - London, United Kingdom - hachette

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3 weeks ago

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What you'll be doing

  • Interpreting contracts and accurately set up relevant details in both the old (Vista) and new (Alliant) Royalty systems.
  • Reviewing both ingoing and outgoing statements.
  • Triaging high severity issues and liaise with the Head of Royalties and Royalties Managers, to ensure issues are handled in a timely fashion.
  • Aiding Royalty managers creating business focus reports, balances, royalty earnings etc.
  • Ad Hoc tasks as required.
Who we are looking for

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Hachette UK Royalties team which is based across two locations (London and Didcot, Oxfordshire).

We operate across all divisions and our focus is Author and agent care ensuring our reporting and payments are correct.


We are seeking to recruit three Royalty Administrators on a fixed term basis who will be responsible for the administration and support of statements, advances, sub-rights and queries for Hachette's publishers, working within a Royalties team.


During Parallel run the position will be to support and ensure that the data in the new system is input and maintained in line with the old royalty system.

You will be liaising and supporting the royalty team and gain a good understanding of any key issues with Authors and Agents, to ensure that they are addressed and followed up accordingly.


This position will be a supporting role and helping the Royalties managers with the timely payment of advances, rights income and royalties, with half yearly royalty statements being produced and checked in line with deadlines.

Monthly tax reporting, both VAT and withholding tax documentation will need to be completed and Author/Agent queries answered in a timely fashion.

Helping with month end finance reconciliations including SAP journals.

What we offer
Our staff are our greatest asset and our benefits reflect this.

In addition to 28 days annual leave days per year + bank holidays, we have an extensive list of benefits that include:
a wide-ranging training library, development programmes including mentoring, Cycle to Work vouchers, Private Medical Insurance, eye care vouchers, up to 70% off book purchases, a charity book shelf, 2 community days per year, many employee networks to join, summer hours (finishing at 1pm on Fridays during the summer months), season ticket loans, rent deposit loans, generous pension schemes and much more


This role can be based at our London office, or at our regional office in Didcot, Oxfordshire, with a blend of in-office (minimum 3 days) and homeworking (2 days) per week.

Our Commitment
Hachette employs people on the basis of their abilities.

We aim to attract and develop talent from a base as broad as the world of readers we want to reach, with a wide and representative range of age, faith, disability, race, gender, sexuality and socio-economic, regional and cultural backgrounds.


If you are shortlisted and need us to make any adjustments to help you attend for interview, please let us know.

Who we are and what we do

About Hachette UK
Hachette UK is a creative powerhouse and the UK's second largest book publishing group. Our mission is to make it easy for everyone to discover new worlds of ideas, learning, entertainment and opportunity.


We're made up of 12 autonomous publishing divisions and over 60 imprints with a rich and diverse history and an incredible range of authors.

We're also the market leader in e-books and publish a range of bestsellers in audio format, the fastest growing part of our business.


Our award-winning adult publishing divisions are Orion, which won Publisher of the Year at the 2021 British Book Awards; Little, Brown; John Murray Press; Hodder & Stoughton; Headline; Quercus; Octopus, Bookouture and Dialogue Books.

They publish fiction and non-fiction in digital, audio and print format, from the world's best and most diverse authors, including Brit Bennett, Candice Carty-Williams, Martina Cole, Michael Connelly, John Grisham, Stephen King, Stieg Larsson, Nelson Mandela, Stephenie Meyer, Maggie O'Farrell, Delia Owens, Ian Rankin, J.K.

Rowling, Colson Whitehead, and Malala Yousafzai.

Hachette Children's Group publishes a wide and vibrant range of books for children across all age ranges, while Hodder Education is a market leader in resources for both primary and secondary schools.

Hachette UK is part of Hachette Livre, the world's third largest trade and educational publisher.

As well as our headquarters in Carmelite House, London, and our state-of-the-art book distribution centre in Didcot, Oxfordshire, we have recently opened five new offices in Manchester, Bristol, Sheffield, Newcastle, and Edinburgh.

The UK region also includes offices in Australia, New Zealand, India, Singapore, the Caribbean, and Ireland.

It's an exciting time to join our business because the publishing market continues to grow and thrive. The UK remains the largest exporter of physical books in the world and book adaptations for film and
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