Royalties Accountant

We are looking to hire a Management Accountant to join our London finance department for one year commencing January 2016. The role will include managing filing and accounting for royalties to all external licensors, assisting in the preparation of monthly management accounts and assisting the Financial Controller with ad-hoc projects. Successful applicants will have several years management accounts experience and will be looking to apply this to a growing, fast changing FMCG environment. They will be able to manage a variety of tasks and maintain a high level of accuracy.

Overseeing royalty reporting function, assisting with monthly management accounts and managing sales invoicing for custom games.

The ROLE
The successful candidate will be required to:
• Manage filing and payment of royalties to all external licensors including ensuring all reports and filed accurately and on time.
• Manage royalties for licensing out to licensees.
• Maintain information for all departments including regular meetings to discuss the progress against minimum guarantees and reporting issues that have occurred eg out of territory sales.
• Assist licensing department with information requests such as forecasting.
• Maintain royalty records for all licensors and work with royalty auditors.
• Maintain royalty information in the monthly management accountants including monthly accruals, tracking of guarantee prepayments, invoicing and payment deadlines.
• Assist in preparation of monthly management accounts for group companies and departments.
• Other accounts and administrative duties for the finance department.

Essential
• ACCA/ACA or equivalent qualified.
• Minimum 3-4 years of management accounts experience
• Team player who enjoys working in a small team.
• Very confident using Excel including pivot tables, Vlook ups and sumifs
• Experience of foreign exchange transactions.
• Experience of Sage accounting software especially Sage 200
• Experience of working in SME.
• Experience of royalty accounting.

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