Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. LexisNexis Legal & Professional provides legal, regulatory, and business information and analytics, including AI-enabled products. The Director, Content Royalties & Analysis owns royalty compliance, analytics, and commercial support across the global product portfolio, leading audits, product and international expansion requirements, system transformations, financial analysis, and a team of financial analysts.
Responsibilities
- Own the royalty business-event process and reconciliation of recognized revenue to royaltable revenue across media types and accounting locations, maintaining strong compliance and control despite rising volume
- Lead audit programs covering royalty calculations, AI usage restrictions, and licensor agreement compliance, driving issues to timely resolution
- Ensure royalty processes and controls meet SOX and internal audit requirements
- Define royalty and compliance requirements for new product launches and international expansions (e.g., Lexis+ with Protégé, Nexis+ with Protégé, Nexis Data+), partnering with Content and Product teams on requirements, end-to-end testing, and sign-off
- Monitor usage, pricing, and adoption of AI-enabled features, giving business units clear insight into cost, compliance, and commercial impact
- Lead royalty workstreams within major system migrations (e.g., legacy royalty platforms to PeopleSoft/Fusion, Salesforce CPQ, WAM, PIM), keeping new processes compliant and scalable
- Partner with technology and cross-functional project teams on end-to-end testing, sign-off, and post-go-live monitoring for royalty-impacting system changes
- Provide commercial and royalty insight to Content and Finance teams during licensor renegotiations and new licensing structures (e.g., transitions from fixed-fee to revenue-share models)
- Prepare business cases and financial analysis to support significant content investment and commercial decisions
- Lead and develop a team of financial analysts — set clear objectives and coach for both technical depth and commercial judgment
- Act as a trusted advisor to Business Unit finance leaders on royalty risk and opportunity, building durable cross-functional relationships
Skills
- 8+ years of progressive finance/accounting experience, including royalty, licensing, or content-rights management
- Experience with financial/ERP systems such as PeopleSoft, Oracle Fusion, or comparable royalty platforms
- Strong analytical skills; comfortable reconciling high transaction volumes and complex data across systems and currencies
- Experience managing or developing a team
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging for both technical and business audiences
- 8+ years of progressive finance/accounting experience, including at least 2 years directly managing people
- Comprehensive understanding of standards and practices within your discipline, with working knowledge of adjacent finance/accounting disciplines
- Proven experience managing a team of professionals (and/or junior managers) setting priorities, allocating resources, and delivering against departmental plans
- Accountability for team results, including budget and resource management within your area
- Strong business awareness and insight-generation skills, with the ability to persuade and align stakeholders across your department and integrate effectively within the wider division
- Solid performance-management skills, with growing experience coaching and developing talent
- Experience in publishing, media, legal information, or another licensing-intensive industry preferred
Benefits
- Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
- 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
- Wellness platform with incentives
- Headspace app subscription
- Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
- Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
- Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
- Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
- Annual Paid Time Off
- Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups
- Up to two days of paid leave each to volunteer with your charity of choice
- Shared parental leave
- Study assistance
- Sabbaticals
- Annual incentive bonus
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