Finance Royalties Assistant - Temp

About Moonbug Entertainment:

Moonbug is a next generation entertainment company that has cemented itself in the children's media space. Would you like to be part of the next frontier of inspiring and engaging stories to kids around the world?

Founded in 2018, with primary offices in London and Los Angeles, Moonbug creates, produces and publishes thousands of minutes of video and audio content every month with the goal of teaching compassion, empathy and resilience. We are a fast-paced global company, and have already grown to become the largest kids’ entertainment company on digital platforms in the world. Some of our existing titles include global sensations CoComelon, Blippi, Little Baby Bum, Morphle, Supa Strikas, ARPO and many more which are available in 32 languages and can be viewed on more than 100 platforms globally.

Moonbug is part of Candle Media, an independent, creator-friendly home for cutting-edge, high-quality, category-defining brands and franchises. Candle is run by leading entertainment executives Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs, and backed by investment capital from funds managed by Blackstone’s flagship private equity business.

This role reports onsite in our London office full time.

London, Camden | Office based | Benefits including Free Private Healthcare, Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave, matched 5% pension scheme, free yoga/fitness wellbeing classes, free weekly lunch and Friday drinks @ 4pm.

The Role:

Moonbug is seeking a Finance Royalties Assistant to support the Revenue Team. This role will be mainly focused (but not limited) to managing and tracking royalty data, including collecting, analyzing, and reviewing information from contracts to reported royalty data to ensure accurate royalty payments are received. This role will help to build upon our current royalty reporting processes and help to upscale and roll out our royalty reporting system across our Consumer Products and Experiences revenue stream in our reporting to billing cycle.

Responsibilities

• Process Royalty statements (validating, saving down, tracking, chasing for incomplete/missing ones).
• Carefully review royalty reports submitted, including advance payments, and accurately validate this data into the Royalty and Finance Systems promptly.
• Review and validate allocation of royalty calculations (accruals and payments) ensuring they reflect contractual terms and are completed in time to meet contractual deadlines.
• Resolve queries from external stakeholders in a timely and articulate manner.
• Own the Flowhaven to Netsuite platform reconciliation, reconciling the royalty report transactions and updating the relevant systems, along with providing support to the Financial Reporting and the Commercial teams.
• Chase relevant internal/external contacts for missing statements/information.
• Assist with prompt and accurate month-end reporting.
• Liaise with Legal and Commercial teams to resolve any royalty statements discrepancies.
• Production of ad hoc reports and analysis based on business requirements.
• Ad hoc duties.

Desired qualifications and requirements:

• You are keen, flexible, yet thorough, and ideally have experience working in a dynamic Finance department. You will be articulate, confident, happy to communicate with customers and senior team members and take direction when required.
• Proactive, self-starter, willing to get stuck in.
• Attention to detail and being a completer-finisher.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Salesforce / NetSuite / Flowhaven experience would be a bonus.
• Previous experience in projects/data management.
• Team player when needed, able to understand the bigger picture and how Finance’s inputs and outputs can affect the business.
• Have enthusiasm in dealing with all functional departments.
• Able to prioritise in a fast-moving, dynamic environment.
• Strong Excel and Microsoft Office skills.