Sr Director, Royalty and Product Finance Management (Remote)

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Sr. Director, Royalty and Product Finance management

At Cengage, the Sr. Director, Royalty and Product Finance operations is in charge of royalty payments and product data. They are tasked with crafting, implementing, and running the royalties and product data strategy and managing the related team. This position leads the team that sets up and maintains accurate royalty details and payments and serves as the business owner of Cengage’s royalty system. Responsibilities include approving payments and supplying audit documentation and support. They also oversee the group that updates material master (product) data throughout its lifecycle, ensuring precise and auditable details in Cengage’s systems. The director manages accurate metadata feeds to external sites and product marketing forms sent to resellers. They are responsible for controlling legal and financial risk in all royalty and product finance operations, reducing expenses, improving workflows, and encouraging scalable solutions among this team and other collaborators. The royalty and product data team reports to them within the finance organization.

What you will do here

• Lead and nurture the group responsible for issuing timely and accurate contributor/author payments and maintaining/updating royalty models to reflect new strategies
• Build and scale new processes by forming a deep understanding of Cengage’s processes, systems/tools, personnel, and strategic direction
• Define, structure, and complete improvement initiatives by developing work plans, collecting and synthesizing relevant data, leading analyses, and developing