Manager, Royalties

<div class="content-intro"><h2 data-pm-slice="1 1 []">About Crunchyroll</h2> <p>Founded by fans, Crunchyroll delivers the art and culture of anime to a passionate community. We super-serve over 100 million anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories, and help them connect with the stories and characters they crave. Whether that experience is online or in-person, streaming video, theatrical, games, merchandise, events and more, it’s powered by the anime content we all love.</p> <p>Join our team, and help us shape the future of anime!</p></div><h2>About the role</h2> <p>As a Royalties Manager on the Financial Contract Reporting (FCR) team, you will play a leadership role in delivering accurate and timely royalty reporting across Crunchyroll’s global content portfolio. This position sits at the intersection of finance, legal, and operations requiring a strong analytical foundation and the ability to interpret complex agreements and financial data. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams across the globe to support royalty reporting, drive process improvements, and ensure contractual compliance with licensors and content partners.</p> <p>This is a great opportunity for a detail-oriented finance professional with deep experience in royalty or participation reporting ideally within the media or entertainment industry who thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys working through the complexities of content accounting and rights management.</p> <ul> <li>Own the end-to-end royalty reporting lifecycle, including calculation, review, statement preparation, delivery, and licensor communications. </li> <li>Work with global counterparts to ensure alignment of Royalty processes and tracking of financial components impacting reporting and payouts (Revenue, PA costs, Advances shortfalls)</li> <li>Play a leading role in calculating quarterly royalty expense accruals, ensuring alignment with contractual terms and accounting policy.</li> <li>Partner with the Content Accounting team to ensure accurate treatment of content costs, advances, minimum guarantees, PA costs, and recoupment structures</li> <li>Serve as the primary contact to Content Accounting, FPA, and Technology teams on royalty expense reporting related matters</li> <li>Work closely with global counterparts as needed to ensure global consistency in royalty processes, reporting standards, and financial data inputs</li> <li>Lead and support royalty system implementations, integrations, enhancements, and testing, including data validation and cleansing efforts</li> <li>Drive process improvements to enhance accuracy, efficiency, controls, and scalability across royalty and content expense workflows</li> <li>Prepare detailed financial analyses and executive-level reporting related to royalty expense, and title performance as needed</li> <li>Support senior leadership with ad hoc analysis, and insights related to royalty expense reporting</li> <li>Mentor and provide guidance to analysts and senior analysts, promoting best practices, documentation, and cross-training</li> <li>Establish standardized procedures, controls, and documentation to support team growth and audit readiness</li> <li>​​Manage performance for direct reports, including goal setting, coaching, and career development planning.</li> <li>Foster a collaborative and high-performing team environment, ensuring team members have the resources and support needed to meet objectives.</li> </ul> <p>This role is based in the Los Angelas office and works a hybrid schedule. </p> <h2>About You</h2> <ul> <li>5+ years of experience in royalty reporting, participation accounting, content accounting, or related financial roles, within media or entertainment</li> <li>Deep experience with royalty expense accounting, accruals, reconciliations, and contractual interpretation</li> <li>Experience with global deal reporting and analysis in a large corporate setting.</li> <li>Ability to read and interpret legal agre ... (truncated, view full listing at source)