Team Lead, Global Series Royalties & Legacy Entities

Team Lead, Global Series Royalties & Legacy Entities

Location(s) : Berlin or Jersey City

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About the Role

Own and continuously improve the end-to-end royalty operations for the book series globally and established (legacy) book entities. From timely and accurate contract processing to calculations, statements, payments, and author query resolution, being part of the global Book Royalty department. Managing royalties for book series globally and working closely with publishing. Safeguarding controls and ensuring compliance with governmental, legal, and tax requirements. Act as a process lead or new sales models and package calculation models. In this role, you also act as deputy for the Global Royalties operations manager during peaks / absence.

This role will be in our Berlin or Jersey City offices on a hybrid working model.

Role Responsibilities

Book series editors' contracts, calculations & Statements

• Manage the end-to-end royalty process for book series. This includes maintaining current databases of series Editor obligations (royalty-bearing, fixed fee, non-royalty, and hybrid contracts), including tiering / escalators, deliverables, and exceptions.
• Review & process / link contracts of series editor obligations in the royalty system, release payments before due dates.
• Recommend and communicate payment policy changes based on meaningful and measurable data analysis.
• Oversee and approve 1st level payment entries for fixed fee agreements. Ensure SLA is met.
• Recommend policy / process changes.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls, regulatory requirements, and ensure the process is audit-proof.
• Partner with IT on fixes / enhancements; plan UAT and controlled releases.
• Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities.

Legacy entity book royalty contracts, calculation & Statements

Process lead New sales distribution models & Package calculation models

Compliance, tax & Controls

Reporting, analytics

Leadership, Team management & Stakeholder management

Experience, Skills & Qualifications

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