Senior Royalties & Rights Manager

Salary: £38,526 - £45,315 per annum

The BFI is seeking a Senior Royalties & Rights Manager to join the BFI’s Finance, People and Business Operations team.

The post-holder will drive process improvements, while overseeing the efficient and effective operation of royalty accounting to third parties and associated information to colleagues, and assist the Finance department in delivering prompt and reliable information to the business.

Fixed Term Contract: 18 months

Key responsibilities include:

• To manage the identification and implementation of process improvements
• To work with the BFI teams and Vistex (MM software provider) to review current processes and understand existing MM and Integra functionality that may be used to improve processes, and support implementation of new processes.
• To ensure that systems and processes are in place to deliver accurate income and expenditure data for use in the royalty calculations, working with finance and other colleagues to identify and address any Integra data capture areas for improvement.
• To ensure that Finance systems and processes are in place to accurately record royalty costs, recoupment of advances, royalties payable and VAT where relevant and reconcile data between Integra and MM.

We are looking for candidates who have:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
• Previous experience with computerised royalty systems – preferably Media Maestro
• Working knowledge and understanding of copyright and royalty agreements.
• Familiarity with computerised accounting systems.
• The ability to analyse financial data

A full list of responsibilities and minimum requirements can be found in the job description.

About the BFI

We are a cultural charity, a National Lottery distributor, and the UK’s lead organisation for film and the moving image. We believe society needs stories. Film, television and the moving image bring them to life, helping us connect and understand each other better. We share the stories of yesterday, search for the stories of today, and shape the stories of tomorrow.

At the BFI you’ll enjoy benefits such as excellent support for working parents, 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), tickets to BFI festivals and events plus many others.

We support diversity and inclusion, and as an organisation recognise that we need to address under representation within our teams. As such we strongly welcome and encourage applicants from our under-represented groups; who identify as D/deaf and disabled and/or are ethnically diverse. We guarantee a first interview to our under-represented groups who meet our minimum requirements.

Further information

Further details about the role, the BFI and our benefits can be obtained by visiting our website.

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First interviews will be held on Tuesday 6 February 2024.
Second interviews will be held on Tuesday 13 February 2024.

The closing date for this position is 29/01/2024 at 23:59