Manager, Royalties

Crunchyroll, LLC • Los Angeles, CA

6h • Hybrid

About The Position

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.
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.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in royalty reporting, participation accounting, content accounting, or related financial roles, within media or entertainment
• Deep experience with royalty expense accounting, accruals, reconciliations, and contractual interpretation
• Experience with global deal reporting and analysis in a large corporate setting.
• Ability to read and interpret legal agreements.
• Proven ability to manage and analyze large, complex datasets with a high degree of accuracy
• Must thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and demonstrate adaptability to change
• Detail-oriented with strong analytical, problem-solving, and reconciliation skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to interact with internal and external stakeholders.
• Hands-on approach with a willingness to mentor others, streamline processes, and drive efficiency.
• Familiarity with large-scale ERP and royalty systems
• Advance-level Excel skills (advanced formulas, pivots, lookups, large data sets a plus)

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end royalty reporting lifecycle, including calculation, review, statement preparation, delivery, and licensor communications.
• Work with global counterparts to ensure alignment of Royalty processes and tracking of financial components impacting reporting and payouts (Revenue, P&A costs, Advances shortfalls)
• Play a leading role in calculating quarterly royalty expense accruals, ensuring alignment with contractual terms and accounting policy.
• Partner with the Content Accounting team to ensure accurate treatment of content costs, advances, minimum guarantees, P&A costs, and recoupment structures
• Serve as the primary contact to Content Accounting, FP&A, and Technology teams on royalty expense reporting related matters
• Work closely with global counterparts as needed to ensure global consistency in royalty processes, reporting standards, and financial data inputs
• Lead and support royalty system implementations, integrations, enhancements, and testing, including data validation and cleansing efforts
• Drive process improvements to enhance accuracy, efficiency, controls, and scalability across royalty and content expense workflows
• Prepare detailed financial analyses and executive-level reporting related to royalty expense, and title performance as needed
• Support senior leadership with ad hoc analysis, and insights related to royalty expense reporting
• Mentor and provide guidance to analysts and senior analysts, promoting best practices, documentation, and cross-training
• Establish standardized procedures, controls, and documentation to support team growth and audit readiness
• ​​Manage performance for direct reports, including goal setting, coaching, and career development planning.
• Foster a collaborative and high-performing team environment, ensuring team members have the resources and support needed to meet objectives.

Benefits

• Receive a great compensation package including salary plus performance bonus earning potential, paid annually.
• Flexible time off policies allowing you to take the time you need to be your whole self.
• Generous medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance
• Health Saving Account HSA program
• Health care and dependent care FSA
• 401(k) plan, with employer match
• Employer paid commuter benefit
• Support program for new parents
• Pet insurance and some of our offices are pet friendly!

What This Job Offers

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