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Pearson is hiring a Specialist, Financial Operations for its Global Rights & Royalties team in India to own complex day-to-day royalty operations. The Specialist prepares and reviews royalty statements, advances, and scheduled payments while investigating discrepancies and ensuring authors are paid accurately and on time. The role also strengthens controls, supports audits, and contributes to process improvement and reporting initiatives.

Prepare, review, and support timely delivery of royalty statements in accordance with author contracts
Process and review advance payments, scheduled payment runs, and off-cycle payments
Analyze large and complex financial and royalty data sets to identify discrepancies and trends
Respond to author, agent, and internal stakeholder inquiries with clear, customer-focused communication
Prepare and maintain complete work papers and evidence for internal reviews and external audits
Support control testing, audit remediation, and implementation of stronger preventive controls
Contribute to special projects, system testing, and process redesign and automation initiatives
Requires a bachelor's degree and 4-5 years of relevant financial operations experience

Specialist, Financial Operations Full Description

Position: Specialist, Financial Operations (Rights & Royalties Operations)

Employer: Pearson — Global Rights & Royalties

Location: Noida, India

The Specialist, Financial Operations is an experienced individual contributor within Pearson's Global Rights & Royalties team in India. The team delivers royalty services to royalty management teams across the US, UK, Canada, India, APAC and DACH regions. In this role, you will own complex day-to-day royalty operations, including the preparation and review of royalty statements, advances, scheduled and off-cycle payments, manual statements, reconciliations, adjustments and author inquiries.

You will work with large and high-value data sets, investigate discrepancies, apply financial and contractual requirements, and help ensure that authors are paid accurately and on time. You will also turn operational data into clear insights for management and business stakeholders, strengthen controls, support audits and contribute to process improvement, reporting and technology initiatives.

Key Responsibilities:

Prepare, review and support the timely delivery of royalty statements in accordance with author contracts, business schedules and operating procedures
Process and review advance payments, scheduled payment runs, off-cycle payments, manual payments, and adjustments
Analyse large and complex financial and royalty data sets, performing reconciliations, variance analysis, and detailed research to identify discrepancies
Respond to author, agent and internal stakeholder inquiries with clear, accurate and customer-focused communication
Provide financial analysis and reporting to Portfolio, Editorial, Finance and royalty management teams
Prepare and maintain complete work papers and evidence for internal reviews, external audits and author audits
Support control testing, audit remediation and implementation of stronger preventive and detective controls
Prepare accurate operational metrics, exception reporting and management information, highlighting trends, risks and unusual circumstances
Contribute to special projects, system testing, process redesign, automation and standardisation initiatives

Essential Qualifications and Experience:

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Finance, Accounting, Commerce, Business Administration or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience
Minimum 4-5 years of relevant experience in financial operations, royalty operations, publishing, rights administration or a comparable high-volume transaction environment
Experience working with financial data, reconciliations, payment processes, operational controls and complex issue resolution
Strong written and verbal English communication skills and experience working with internal or external customers
Advanced Microsoft Excel capability and familiarity with ERP, royalty, workflow or reporting systems preferred

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