Job Description

About the Role
Working within a Centre of Excellence environment, the Royalties Controller is responsible for setting up and maintaining author contracts within the Royalties system. You will also responsible for arranging payment of outgoing royalties to authors in accordance with their contract with OUP and must respond to and resolve author queries, within agreed SLA's.
Other duties will include:

• Create new author vendor master records and update and maintain in accordance with internal compliance controls.
• Create new author contracts within the royalty system
• Update and maintain author contracts where rights and royalty lines are missing or where addendums have been made to existing contracts
• End contract lines where Rights have been reverted
• Where the contract allows add recoverable publishing costs to the author's contract in the royalty system
• Support the timely investigation of author queries, identify root cause and fixing issue in the royalty system
• Process Advance and Royalty payments in the royalty system. Match and send royalty statement, remittance advice and where appropriate tax documents to the author
• Submit relevant tax documents to the author and tax reports to the relevant tax authority
• Scan and index author contracts and correspondence into document management system
• Assist within incoming royalty processes where required

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.
About You
Essential:

• Royalties or Contract Administration or Accounts Payable background
• Experience of working in a shared service and/or Centre of Excellence environment
• Understanding of basic accounting, ideally gained from working in a Royalties or Accounts Payable function
• Ability to analyze and understand complex data
• Meticulous, shows close attention to detail
• Good time management skills, able to work to deadlines and meet SLA's
• Accurate and consistent
• Good Communication skills
• Provide excellent internal and external customer services

Desirable:

• Experience of dealing with large volumes in a multi-currency environment
• A good understanding of Publishing, rights and royalties
• Ability to interpret Royalties and Rights contracts from a legal and tax point of view

As an internal candidate, when applying for a secondment, you must discuss the opportunity and gain approval with your line manager/department in advance of submitting an application.
Benefits
We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days' holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies.
We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts.
Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.
Queries
Please contact with any queries relating to this role.
We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.

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