Academic Royalties Lead
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 3 hours ago
Job Title: Academic Royalties Lead
Salary: £26,600 - £32,600
Location: Cambridge, Hybrid
Contract: Fixed Term/Secondment (until June 22, 2027)
Hours: Full time (35 hours per week)
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
The Academic Royalties Lead is an important role in the organisation, ensuring that our authors are paid correctly and promptly in accordance with contract terms. The role sits within the Finance Global Payments team.
About The Role
The Academic Royalties Lead is responsible for ensuring the timely, accurate and efficient loading of Academic royalties contracts into the royalties system, enabling contract certainty and ensuring authors are paid correctly and on time in accordance with contractual terms.
The role plays a key part in maintaining data integrity within the royalties process, supporting financial control, and providing a central point of expertise for Academic royalties queries. It also works closely with Editorial and Finance stakeholders to improve processes, reduce risk, and drive continuous improvement across royalties operations.
Additional responsibilities and accountabilities include:
About You
The ideal candidate for this role will:
For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.
We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long-term health condition, and who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable and/or appropriate, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition.
Please note that Cambridge University Press & Assessment will not ordinarily be able to provide sponsorship for vacancies of less than 12-months in duration. Applicants must therefore have an existing right to work in the UK to be eligible for this position.
Rewards And Benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be Sunday,5th July 2026. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place week commencing Monday, 6th July 2026.
If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect:
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter.
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it is safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
If you are ready to take the next step in your Cambridge journey, we welcome your application. Together, we continue to shape a culture where everyone feels empowered to succeed and motivated to make a difference— for ourselves, for each other, and for learners worldwide.]
Salary: £26,600 - £32,600
Location: Cambridge, Hybrid
Contract: Fixed Term/Secondment (until June 22, 2027)
Hours: Full time (35 hours per week)
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
The Academic Royalties Lead is an important role in the organisation, ensuring that our authors are paid correctly and promptly in accordance with contract terms. The role sits within the Finance Global Payments team.
About The Role
The Academic Royalties Lead is responsible for ensuring the timely, accurate and efficient loading of Academic royalties contracts into the royalties system, enabling contract certainty and ensuring authors are paid correctly and on time in accordance with contractual terms.
The role plays a key part in maintaining data integrity within the royalties process, supporting financial control, and providing a central point of expertise for Academic royalties queries. It also works closely with Editorial and Finance stakeholders to improve processes, reduce risk, and drive continuous improvement across royalties operations.
Additional responsibilities and accountabilities include:
- The accurate and timely setup of Academic royalty contracts within systems, in line with contractual terms and operational deadlines.
- Maintaining a consistently low value of ‘Sales not in contract' through proactive monitoring, issue resolution and stakeholder engagement.
- Acting as the primary point of contact for Academic royalties queries - providing expert guidance and ensuring timely resolution.
- Building and maintaining strong working relationships with Editorial teams, including regular update meetings and issue tracking.
- Identifying, challenging and improving existing processes to enhance efficiency, accuracy and controls.
- Ensuring high standards of data accuracy and integrity across large volumes of contract and financial data.
- Prioritising workloads effectively to meet key deadlines and operational milestones.
- Supporting the wider Royalties team and contributing to team objectives and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Undertaking additional duties as required by the Global Assessor & Royalties Controller or Finance SLT.
About You
The ideal candidate for this role will:
- Have previous experience working in a Finance environment.
- Be confident processing large volumes of data quickly and accurately.
- Have intermediate to advance Excel skills, including confident use of pivot tables and lookup functions. Experience with Power Query is highly desirable.
- Have good written and verbal communication skills.
- Question current working practices and suggest continuous improvements.
- Be able to prioritise workloads to meet deadlines.
- Be a team player to work with and support the rest of the team.
For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.
We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long-term health condition, and who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable and/or appropriate, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition.
Please note that Cambridge University Press & Assessment will not ordinarily be able to provide sponsorship for vacancies of less than 12-months in duration. Applicants must therefore have an existing right to work in the UK to be eligible for this position.
Rewards And Benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Group personal pension scheme
- Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
- Green travel schemes
We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be Sunday,5th July 2026. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place week commencing Monday, 6th July 2026.
If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect:
- Technical task may be conducted
- First stage interview via MS Teams/in-premise.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter.
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it is safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
If you are ready to take the next step in your Cambridge journey, we welcome your application. Together, we continue to shape a culture where everyone feels empowered to succeed and motivated to make a difference— for ourselves, for each other, and for learners worldwide.]
