Village Roadshow Limited Hiring for Finance Royalty Assistant Job at New South Wales Full Time

Our industry is fast paced, dynamic and exhilarating and we are looking for someone with a strong customer focus to oversee our current processes!

About the Company

Village Roadshow is a leading international media and entertainment company, operating its core businesses in Cinema, Movie Production, Film Distribution, and Theme Parks. Roadshow Films distributes theatrical and television content across cinema, television, DVD and digital platforms in Australia and New Zealand.

About the role

The Finance Royalty Assistant will be responsible for reporting the royalties and organising royalty payments arising from our contractual obligations with external film producers. Royalties are payments made in line with contractual obligations to share revenue earned from distributing the product through various markets in the Australian/New Zealand territories.

Key Accountabilities will see you:

• Preparation of timely and accurate royalty statements for various local and international business partners
• Reconciliation of royalty statements to ensure accuracy and cross checking back to the film contract terms
• Respond to queries arising from royalty reporting and liaise with internal business units
• Manage the Accounts Payable ledger for the royalty vendors and maintenance of Business Partner master data
• Preparation and liaising with the Australian Tax Office, regarding licensor requests for their Withholding tax certificates
• Registering screenrights titles in a timely manner, following up disputed titles and raising invoices for the screenrights revenue
• Processing of digital sales revenue and be a backup as required
• Various meta data field input, including backup support for the team

In addition, this role will see you contribute to the improvement of business processes and implementation of changes designed to improve the efficiency of the Finance Department.

Skills & Experience:

• Previous work experience as a Finance Assistant, Finance officer, Accounts Payable Officer or similar role
• Exceptional attention to detail, with an ability to spot numerical errors
• Familiarity with accounting software
• Advance MS Excel skills (creating spreadsheets and using financial functions)
• Good Knowledge of accounting procedures
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and customer service skills
• Organisational and time management skills
• You are a solid communicator with a high level of communication proficiency and initiative which will be well rewarded.

What we offer

In return, we offer a hybrid working culture (with a bunch of great people), ongoing learning and development, health & wellbeing initiatives, as well as regular fun social events. And if you are a movie & entertainment buff, there are plenty of exciting employment benefits to enjoy.

Village Roadshow is a proud Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant

If you are eager to learn in supportive, collaborative and fast paced environment, then