Royalties & Licensing Accountant

Leicester | Full-time | Office-based | Circa £45,000

Previous royalties experience is essential.

Cedar is working with a well-established international business operating across the licensed consumer products sector, to recruit a Royalties & Licensing Accountant to join their finance team in Leicester.

This is a specialist role with responsibility for the full royalty accounting process across a portfolio of licences. You'll work closely with internal stakeholders, licensors and external auditors, combining financial analysis with commercial and contractual understanding.

About the Role

You'll take ownership of the end-to-end royalty process, including:

• Preparing and distributing monthly, quarterly and semi-annual royalty statements.
• Managing the timely receipt and processing of licensor royalty statements.
• Reviewing, validating and approving royalty invoices.
• Analysing and summarising large volumes of royalty data for licensors.
• Using Excel to manipulate, analyse and reconcile high volumes of data.
• Producing monthly and quarterly royalty analysis and reporting.
• Supporting the reconciliation and clearance of royalty-related balance sheet accounts.
• Preparing and distributing royalty forecast reports.
• Acting as a key point of contact for internal and external royalty queries.
• Supporting and managing the end-to-end licensor audit process, including data collection, compliance, query resolution and settlement calculations.
• Carrying out detailed reviews of licensing agreements to identify financial, operational and contractual risks.
• Interpreting contract clauses and highlighting potential risks, ambiguities or unfavourable terms.
• Supporting internal and compliance audits across key licences.
• Building effective relationships with licensors and other external stakeholders.
• Identifying opportunities to improve processes, controls and reporting.

Person Specification

Royalties experience is essential. We're looking for someone who can demonstrate:

• Previous experience within a royalties, licensing or similar finance environment.
• Strong Excel skills, including VLOOKUPs and Pivot Tables.
• Confidence working with large volumes of financial data.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working with financial audits.
• The ability to interpret and understand contractual and licensing terms.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• A proactive approach to improving processes and controls.
• The ability to manage multiple priorities and work to tight deadlines.