Director, Content Royalties & Analysis

RELX • Dayton, OH

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Director, Content Royalties & Analysis owns royalty compliance, analytics, and commercial support for LexisNexis Legal & Professional's global product portfolio — including fast-growing AI-enabled products such as Lexis+ with Protégé and Nexis+ with Protégé. This role ensures royalty calculations remain accurate and compliant across a high-volume, complex licensing environment, while partnering with Content, Product, Legal, and Business Unit finance teams on new product launches, international expansion, and major systems transformations. It is a hands-on, high-visibility role for someone who pairs deep royalty and licensing expertise with the judgment to guide teams through complexity and change.

Requirements

• 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.
• Minimum Requirements: 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.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in publishing, media, legal information, or another licensing-intensive industry preferred.

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.

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
• In addition to annual Paid Time Off, we offer up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice
• annual incentive bonus

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed