Royalties & Partnership Accountant

Responsibilities

• Ensuring the timely submission & receipt of royalty reports from licensees and third-party agents ensuring accuracy completeness & compliance with contractual terms.
• Onboard new licensees onto the West End royalty portal providing guidance and ongoing support with the accurate submission and upload of royalty reports.
• Review royalty statements for accuracy completeness and contractual compliance.
• Identify and resolve discrepancies in reported royalties with licensees.
• Prepare and issue invoices in line with validated royalty reports and contractual terms.
• Monitor advances recoupments and overage positions across licence agreements.
• Track outstanding invoices and proactively follow up to secure timely payment.
• Maintain an accurate and up-to-date debtors ledger with clear commentary and audit trail
• Escalate overdue balances and collection risks to commercial stakeholders where required.
• Assist with maintaining data integrity within the Westend royalty system (approx. 2500 reports across the groups per quarter) are accurately processed and that recoupment and overage positions are correctly reviewed for each licensee contract.
• Ensure consistency between licensee reports internal records and invoicing data.
• Act as the main point of contact for licensee queries related to royalties and payments.
• Proactively collaborate with internal teams to gather and validate required data ensuring timely resolution of issues and successful collection of overdue royalties & royalty reporting.
• Collect and consolidate royalty forecasts from licensees to support planning.
• Flag discrepancies create and update SKUs (product identifier to track sales) and work collaboratively with licensees to investigate and resolve reporting errors.
• Monitor and identify overdue payments taking action in line with WB CPLG credit control procedures to ensure timely collection.
• Prepare and issue withholding tax documentation to licensors and licensees ensuring compliance with contractual and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain dashboards & strong audit trails to ensure compliance and support financial controls.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of royalty processes and reporting efficiencies.
• Provide cross-territory support by assisting with workload coverage during team absences or annual leave ensuring continuity of royalty reporting validation and credit control activities
• Other ad hoc duties as required.

Qualifications :

Qualifications

• Previous experience working within a related finance role.
• Royalties experience preferred.
• Ability to interpret and apply contractual terms accurately.
• Strong MS Excel skills (VLOOKUP Pivot tables).
• Demonstrated ability to juggle multiple tasks within a fast-paced environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
• Excellent organisational & prioritisation skills.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
• High level of accuracy & a strong attention to detail.

Additional Information :

What We Offer

Working at WildBrain is more than a job its the opportunity to join forces with extraordinary insightful and imaginative people who will recognize your talents and encourage your professional growth and development in a work environment that promotes creativity and individuality. We offer competitive benefits and we invest in our people and their future.

Our Commitment

Diversity Equity and Inclusion are in our DNA. As a global leader in kids and family entertainment we strive to reflect and honour the diversity of our audiences around the world. We believe that creating diverse and inclusive content & brands begins with fostering a culture of belonging at WildBrain. To us a culture of belonging is one where we celebrate and welcome the diversity of all employees stakeholders and external partners and strive to create an environment where every individual feels valued respected and brings their authentic self to work.

We demonstrate our commitment to this by striving to provide a supportive work environment and a corporate culture that welcomes and encourages equal opportunities for all employees. We recognize that people bring experience and talent that goes beyond the technical skills and requirements of a job. If you possess similar experience that is close to what weve listed here we encourage you to please still consider applying. We strongly believe that diverse experience transferable skills and passion are key! WildBrain accommodates people with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process. Applicants are encouraged to make their needs known in advance if accommodation is required.

About WildBrain CPLG

WildBrain CPLG is a trusted licensing partner for leading brands worldwide offering 50 years of expertise building consumer products and location-based entertainment programmes across the entertainment sport corporate and lifestyle sectors. With over 20 offices serving the UK Europe India the Middle East China Asia Pacific and the US WildBrain CPLG combines the strength of global reach with expertise in local markets to achieve the best results for partners. Our passionate teams consistently challenge themselves to explore new and innovative ideas and opportunities in partnerships activations creative and business processes to celebrate and build brands. At WildBrain CPLG we believe that collaboration is about clarity openness and trust and we are widely known for our no-nonsense straightforward approach. WildBrain CPLG is part of WildBrain Ltd. a global leader in kids and family entertainment. Please contact us or visit the WildBrain CPLG website for more information: .

About WildBrain

At WildBrain we build and grow beloved family brands through exceptional entertainment experiences. Home to franchises such as Strawberry Shortcake Teletubbies Yo Gabba Gabba! Inspector Gadget and Degrassi we are a global leader in franchise managementbringing stories to life through content production audience reach and consumer products. Our award-winning studio has partnered with top global platforms such as Apple TV Netflix and the BBC producing acclaimed series such as The Snoopy Show Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City Teletubbies (2015) Yo Gabba GabbaLand! and Finding Her Edge. The WildBrain Network offering more than 1000 channels across YouTube FAST and AVOD delivers premium-quality content to todays kids and families wherever theyre watchingconnecting advertisers to audiences at scale through brand-safe media solutions. WildBrain CPLG our global licensing and consumer products arm represents our own and partner brands across major territories worldwide. Headquartered in Toronto WildBrain trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: WILD). Visit us at .

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time

Experience: years
Vacancy: 1