Overview

JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: 12-month Fixed Term Contract, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Studios - Finance
LOCATION: Television Centre, London - Hybrid
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £45,000 - £50,000 plus £5,441 London Weighting depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

BBC Studios is a globally renowned media company borne of the BBC. We make and distribute the world’s most sought-after TV, audio and digital content. Our ambition is to be the home of the most powerful, entertaining, and inspiring stories for people all around the world.

Purpose of the role

BBC Studios is in the midst of a major transformation across its Global Consumer Product Licensing business. We are implementing a new, integrated platform using My Media Box (MMB) technology to replace legacy systems and manual processes with streamlined, automated solutions across all touchpoints. This transformation introduces deal systemisation, SAP and ETHOS integration, with the goal of ensuring data integrity across global teams and stakeholders.

Why join the team

As Royalty Compliance Specialist, you’ll be at the heart of this change, ensuring robust royalty reporting and compliance in a newly unified operational landscape. As part of a Transformation programme, BBC Studios Global Licensing is introducing a new contract and financial reporting system.

You’ll work closely with the Consumer Products team in an exciting, fast-paced environment, especially with the upcoming Bluey movie, and support contract migration, third-party error handling, and project delivery through Go Live and beyond.

Your responsibilities and impact

• System Migration & Go-Live Support: Coordinate cross-functional teams to execute the migration strategy, ensure royalty data and recoupment are accurate, validate migrated data, support system testing, and act as the first point of contact for licensees and agents during go-live.
• Contract & Compliance Oversight: Review contracts to ensure royalty terms are correctly captured, liaise with Legal to interpret and apply complex clauses, and confirm rights usage and payment terms are accurately reflected.
• Royalty Reporting & Reconciliation: Support daily error handling, resolve reporting issues with internal and external stakeholders, reconcile SAP royalty reports, distribute accurate data to sales teams, and track outstanding statements from licensees and agents.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build strong relationships with internal teams and external partners and provide clear communication on royalty issues, contract queries, and reporting obligations.
• Continuous Improvement: advise contributors and producers on reporting requirements, and implement solutions to improve data accuracy, system compliance, and overall process efficiency.

Your skills and experience

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Experience in a royalties-based role, ideally within consumer products, licensing, or entertainment.
• Experience working within a matrix organisation.
• Strong understanding of royalty reporting, contract compliance, and financial reconciliation.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• High attention to detail and ability to spot and resolve data inconsistencies.
• Familiarity with SAP or similar ERP systems.

DESIRED BUT NOT REQUIRED:

• Experience working with outsourced finance teams or shared service centres.
• Understanding of rights exploitation and contract structures.
• Exposure to AI tools or automation in finance or royalty management.
• Experience supporting system implementations or migration.

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Additional information

We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest, we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. This step is necessary to ensure we can provide a high level of attention and service to all applicants. Thank you for your understanding.

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Redeployment

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

Life at BBC Studios

• A flexible 35-hour working week with 26 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) and the option to buy an extra five days.
• Defined pension (up to 10% employer contributions).
• Caring and parenting support, 24/7 remote GP access, life assurance and accident benefit.
• BBC Studios is a world leader in operating sustainably both on and off screen. Find out more about BBC Group’s science-based Net Zero targets here .
• Career development in a values-led purpose-driven culture.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below. Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy.

Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we’d be happy to discuss: reasonable.adjustments@bbc.co.uk

BBC Group and Public Services, Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London, United Kingdom, W1A 1AA. BBC Studios Distribution Limited, company no: 01420028, registered address: 1 Television Centre, 101 Wood Lane, London, United Kingdom W12 7FA.