Job Description

The role:

We are recruiting for a Contracts Team Leader to join us in our Royalties department, which is positioned within the Finance Services team and provides accounting and financial reporting for Penguin Random House. This role is offered on a full time basis and will be based at our distribution centre in , Colchester.

Reporting to the Royalty Manager, you will play a key role within the team checking new and amended contracts data in the Royalty system to ensure the calculation database is accurate.

As Contracts Team Leader you will be a direct line manager for Royalty Analysts, and will therefore have excellent management skills, strong attention to detail and a flexible approach to working.

Your key responsibilities will also include:

• Check and approve contract amendments, changes of contractual party and new contractual agreements.

• Query unusual contract clauses with the contracts department
• Investigate anomalies within the Royalty Calculation engine warnings file
• Assist the Finance Manager with reviewing various reports including the ExRoyalties by Reason and No Rules matched reports to ensure all sales captured correctly
• Assist the Finance Manager with management of the Manual Licensing Statement accounting process, liaising with external licensees
• Assist the Finance Manager with royalty period end checking
• Analysis of Reverted titles
• Responsibility for recalculations of royalty statements after rate amendments
• Line management of two Royalty Analysts

What you\'ll bring:

To be successful within this role you will be a proven people manager with experience in performance management and fostering continuous team learning and development. You\xe2\x80\x99ll be able to demonstrate experience in a high volume transaction business area and will have strong numeracy skills. A background in Royalties would be advantageous but is not essential.

High proficiency in MS Office programs including Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint will be crucial, alongside a positive and enthusiastic attitude to your work.

The team:

The royalties team comprises of 10 people, who are split in to 3 smaller teams. Royalty Contracts is where this role sits and is primarily responsible for the manual statements and the editing of the contracts for missing rates and royalty sets. The Head Contracts team actively set up the contracts within our system Biblio so that advances can be paid and royalties can be calculated. They also look at deceased authors, bank and address changes. The final team is that of Royalty Operations. Within this team they look at the daily and monthly reconciliations of the sales to ensure we are accurately reporting. As a team we also look after the period end processing.

About Penguin:

We\xe2\x80\x99re the UK\xe2\x80\x99s largest publisher; made up of some 2,000 people and publishing over 1,500 books each year. Our doors are open to all kinds of talent. In a constantly evolving industry, we work hard to stretch the definition of the word publisher. Here, you\xe2\x80\x99ll work with a breadth of talent who all play their part to make each of our books a success. Together, we make books for everyone because a book can change anyone.

Salary: \xc2\xa326,000 - \xc2\xa328,500 depending on your skills and experience align to the role.

Please apply for this role with your CV and Cover Letter by the 22nd of September.

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 free and discounted 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.

As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we\'re part of the offer an interview scheme. This is where disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role can opt in to get to the next recruitment stage. There may be some situations where volume of applicants means we can\'t take all eligible candidates to interview.

We want to make sure disabled applicants can be their best at each step of the recruitment journey. If you need adjustments during the application process, we encourage you to get in touch with us at . Remember, you only need to share what you are comfortable to for us to support your adjustment request. Find out more about our approach here:

We partner with The Book Trade Charity, who provide financial assistance for people looking to get into the publishing industry; you can find more information and talk directly here:

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: 263715

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