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McGraw Hill

Royalty Operations System Manager

🇺🇸 Remote - US

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $94K - $120K

💻 Finance

🗓️ January 7th, 2026

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Edtech.com's Summary

McGraw Hill is hiring a Royalty Operations System Manager who will oversee royalty processing, reporting, and payments by managing royalty software and ensuring accurate sales data reporting. This role involves leading a team, managing interfaces, troubleshooting issues, collaborating with stakeholders and vendors, and driving process improvements.

Highlights
  • Manage user-owned configurations within royalty software and coordinate necessary changes with internal and external technology teams.
  • Oversee ingestion, reconciliation, and validation of all inbound and outbound interfaces including sales, payments, and products.
  • Manage generation and distribution of accurate royalty statements and timely payments, including complex royalty calculations.
  • Train, supervise, and guide royalty staff while ensuring adherence to deadlines.
  • Identify and implement operational enhancements and conduct testing related to these improvements.
  • Collaborate with IT, legal, finance, accounting, and external partners to resolve issues and support strategic objectives.
  • Provide financial analysis, support audits, and handle complex royalty research and inquiries.
  • Requires up to 25% travel.
  • Requires a Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 3 years experience in a business analyst role, preferably with royalty accounting experience in publishing or software.
  • Highly proficient in Power BI, Microsoft Suite, SQL, and royalty management software; strong analytical, organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills required.

Royalty Operations System Manager Full Description

Overview

Make an Impact!   
At McGraw Hill we create best-in-class, next-generation learning platforms that are used by millions of students and educators worldwide from kindergarten through graduate school. Our goal is to accelerate student success through intuitive and effective learning tools and content that maximize a teacher's time and a student's learning experience. We do all of this in a supportive, collaborative environment where you can grow your career in a way that fits into your life. 
 
How can you make an impact? 
McGraw Hill, the leading provider of digital and print educational resources, is looking for a Royalty Operations Systems Manager
 
The Royalty Operations Systems Manager is part of the Global Business Services team. You will join a collaborative, high performing team and report to the Director-Royalty Operations. This position is responsible for overseeing the accurate processing, reporting, and payment of royalties by managing royalty software, ensuring accurate and timely reporting of sales data, and leading a team to ensure timely, compliant, and efficient royalty cycles and payments, requiring strong analytical, organizational, and system skills. Key duties involve managing inbound and outbound interfaces, troubleshooting discrepancies, and collaborating with internal partners and stakeholders as well as external system vendors, all while driving process improvements. 
 
This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States.
 
What you will be doing:   
• Manage user owned configurations within royalty software, coordinating with internal and external technology support teams to implement necessary software configuration changes, address any system data or functionality issues and act as Royalty Operations lead/SME/liaison to internal and external technology support teams on all breakfix initiatives, system enhancement initiatives. This includes all testing preparation, coordination, documentation and execution for feature fixes and updates. 
• Oversee the ingestion, reconciliation, and validation of all inbound and outbound interfaces including, but not limited to sales, payments and products as well as daily batch program scheduling, and royalty system on demand reporting.
• Manage the processes that generate and distribute accurate royalty statements and timely payments, handling complex royalty calculations. Support Royalty Operations reporting needs including tracking critical metrics.
• Train, supervise, and guide royalty staff, assigning tasks, monitoring progress, and ensuring adherence to deadlines.
• Identify and implement operational enhancements to improve efficiency, accuracy, and reporting workflows. Responsible for any testing associated with these enhancements. Also responsible for working with other departments whose enhancements may affect Royalty Operations. 
• Liaise with IT, legal, finance, accounting, and external partners to resolve issues and support strategic goals.
• Provide financial analysis, support audits, and handle complex royalty research and inquiries.
• Travel up to 25%. 
 
We're looking for someone with:
• Bachelor's degree in related field.
• 3+ years experience in a business analyst role. 
• Experience in royalty accounting, ideally in publishing or software.
• Highly proficiency with Power BI, Microsoft Suite, SQL, and experience with royalty management software.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and meticulous attention to detail.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work under pressure, meet tight deadlines, and manage multiple projects.
• Understanding of contract interpretation as well as data and rights management. 
• Ability to lead and manage projects that require the participation of multiple IT areas internal and external to MH.
• Problem solving skills as the work is dynamic and issues that arise will not always be easily identified and resolved.
 
Why work for us? 
The work you do at McGraw Hill will be work that matters. We are collectively designing content that will build the future of education. Play your part and experience a sense of fulfilment that will inspire you to even greater heights.    
 
The pay range for this position is between $93,950 - $120,000 annually. However, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. An annual bonus plan may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered. Click here to learn more about our benefit offerings.
 
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