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Macmillan · 2 months ago

Senior Manager/Director of Accounting – Rights & Royalties

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

$130K/yr - $150K/yr

8+ years exp

Macmillan is a prominent publishing company seeking a highly skilled accounting leader to oversee their Rights & Royalties accounting functions. This role involves managing accounting processes, ensuring internal controls, and leading a team focused on royalties and subrights accounting.

BooksEducationInternetMedia and EntertainmentPublishing

Responsibilities

Lead and mentor two Accounting Managers overseeing a subrights and royalty accounting team consisting of 5 full time employees and 4 contractors

Serve as the senior point of contact for royalties and subrights accounting across the organization with both internal stakeholders and external auditors

Oversee the creation of process documentation and serve as the process owner for rights and royalties accounting

Design, implement, and improve processes for monthly accruals, year-end estimates of advance recoupments, reconciliations, account roll-forwards, and streamline journal entries

Partner with Finance, Contracts, and Subrights Sales teams to streamline reporting and ensure accuracy

Drive transformation initiatives tied to ongoing system changes and new ISBN-level accounting in SAP

Oversee the reconciliation of advances and royalty earnings from two different royalty systems into the SAP general ledger

Leverage Excel and large datasets to enhance analysis, reporting, and internal controls

Own the data definitions of royalties and subrights fields that impact the financial ledger and serve as the point of contact for technology in changes impacting the rights & royalties accounting process

Provide timely and accurate reporting to division finance teams

Support ongoing and future implementations of new royalty systems and associated process transitions

Ensure accounting practices align with internal controls and company policies

Qualification

Rights & Royalties AccountingProcess ImprovementSAPERP SystemsAdvanced Excel SkillsInternal Controls KnowledgeLeadership SkillsCollaboration SkillsCommunication Skills