Licensing Compliance Consultant

POSITION TITLE: Licensing Compliance Consultant

DEPARTMENT: Global Consumer Products Business Operations

Principal Responsibilities – Royalty Compliance

• Review contracts for financial terms and compare to royalty statements, checking for compliance

• Tracing financials through a contract’s life cycle to identify and resolve discrepancies

• Advise internal teams how to correct entry errors that prevent statement processing

• Advise licensees how to resubmit statements that cannot be processed due to errors

• Troubleshoot access issues when licensees are not able to access our system

• Troubleshoot inquiries from Finance and offshore royalty reporting teams

• Complete ad hoc special projects and provide reporting for management as needed

Principal Responsibilities – Cash Collections/Compliance

• Reach out to licensees (customers) to collect/resolve open AR balances and royalty compliance issues

• Maintain collection reason codes to accurately identify status of open receivables

• Monitor cash expected from licenses to ensure they are received in a timely manner

• Manage internal/ external ad-hoc requests as they relate to invoice account balances

• Point person for all withholding tax certificates ensuring they are received and sent to Viacom tax

• Assist cash application team resolve unapplied payments

• Provide support to Sales Team and Finance Dept. as needed

• Play an active role during month end close

Skills

• Strong understanding of General Accounting Principles (royalty accounting is a plus)

• Strong ability to trace an issue to find its root cause and final impact

• Strong ability to understand and interpret contracts

• Strong Microsoft Excel skills

• Strong written and oral communication skills

• Strong time management and organizational skills

• Proactive mindset with ability to provide creative solutions to complex problems

• Detail oriented with ability to see the big picture and work on cross-divisional projects with many stakeholders

• Ability to multitask and manage diverse projects and assignments

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively (i.e. leader as well as team player)

Experience/Knowledge

• 3-5 years of relevant global licensing industry work experience

• Experience in operations finance, accounting, and operations management preferred

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.