Royalties Analyst - Media

Royalty Analyst - Licensing An exciting opportunity has arisen for a talented Royalty Analyst to join a dynamic finance team within a leading global licensing business. This role plays a key part in supporting the end-to-end royalty accounting and reporting cycle across international brand licensing programmes. Combining financial accuracy, analytical insight, and stakeholder management, the successful candidate will ensure timely, accurate, and compliant royalty reporting across multiple clients and regions. Offering excellent exposure to both commercial and operational finance, this position is ideal for someone looking to develop their career within a fast-paced, international environment with opportunities for progression and professional growth. The Role Working as part of the finance team, you will be responsible for: • Coordinating the collection and processing of royalty statements and sales projections from licensees, ensuring accurate royalty calculations and invoices are raised and issued on time. • Ensuring client payments are accurate, complete, and delivered within agreed deadlines while meeting contractual reporting requirements. • Monitoring royalty receivables and working closely with credit control and commercial teams to support timely collections. • Supporting finance queries from internal stakeholders, clients, licensees, and auditors, including providing documentation, process explanations, and calculation analysis. • Preparing month-end journals, including revenue and cost accruals, bad debt provisions, and write-offs. • Performing account reconciliations and supporting monthly management reporting, including cost analysis, revenue reviews, reserve analysis, and variance reporting. • Assisting with quarterly royalty forecasting, projections, and financial analysis. • Identifying opportunities for process improvements and supporting enhancements to reporting efficiency. • Providing support across the wider finance team, including absence cover and ad-hoc reporting requirements. About You The ideal candidate will be a detail-oriented finance professional with strong analytical skills and the ability to communicate effectively with a variety of stakeholders. You will ideally have: • Experience within royalty accounting, licensing, or a similar commercial finance environment. • Experience interpreting contractual terms and applying them to financial reporting. • Background across accounting functions such as accounts payable, accounts receivable, or finance business partnering. • Strong numerical ability with excellent attention to detail and accuracy. • The ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively under pressure. • Excellent interpersonal skills, with confidence communicating with both domestic and international stakeholders. • Degree-level education or equivalent experience. • Intermediate to advanced Excel skills, including functions such as VLOOKUPs, SUMIFs, and data analysis. Additional language skills, would be highly advantageous. This is a fantastic opportunity for a finance professional looking to build specialist experience within a global licensing environment and become part of a growing, commercially focused finance team. We know that applying for a new role takes time and effort, and we genuinely appreciate every application we receive. Unfortunately, due to the volume of applications, we are only able to contact candidates who have been shortlisted for the next stage of the process. If you do not hear from us, please do not be discouraged, and we wish you the very best with your search for your next opportunity. Handle actively welcomes applicants from under-represented backgrounds - we pride ourselves on attracting the best talent for every opportunity through a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.