Specialist, Financial Operations

Job Title: Specialist, Financial Operations

Description: In this role, You'll Drive transformation across Rights & Royalties operations by leveraging business analysis, data analytics, and workflow automation to improve accuracy, efficiency, controls, and decision-making. Partner with Finance, Operations, and Technology teams to deliver actionable insights, scalable processes, and measurable business outcomes. This role aligns with industry titles such as Business Analyst, Data Analyst, Business Intelligence (BI) Analyst or Business Analyst – Rights & Royalties Transformation

The Role

We are seeking a high-impact Business Analyst / Data Analyst (3–4 years’ experience) to join the Rights & Royalties Transformation Group. This role blends business analysis, analytics, and workflow automation to improve royalty accuracy, cycle times, controls, and decision visibility. The ideal candidate is fast, agile, and execution-focused, able to grasp business fundamentals quickly, translate them into data and process requirements, and deliver measurable operational outcomes through dashboards, automation, and standardisation. Royalties domain experience is a strong advantage (rights, licensing, royalty calculations, statements, author/vendor payments, deductions, reserves, contractual terms).

What You'll Own

• Build trusted operational and financial visibility for Rights & Royalties via dashboards and KPIs.
• Drive automation and simplification of recurring operational activities (exceptions, validations, reconciliations, reporting packs).
• Reduce rework, disputes, and leakage risks through improved data quality and process controls.
• Enable faster decision-making through standardised reporting and self-serve insights.
• Conduct rapid discovery of current processes (as-is), pain points, and root causes across rights, royalties, and related finance operations.
• Translate business needs into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes (cycle time, error reduction, SLA improvement).
• Partner with Operations, Finance, Product/Tech and stakeholders to design to-be processes using the lens: Standardise → Automate → Optimise → Scale.
• Drive execution: prioritise backlog, manage dependencies, support UAT, and ensure adoption with crisp documentation and training aids.
• Define and maintain KPI frameworks for Rights & Royalties and convert them into operational dashboards.
• Build and maintain dashboards using Tableau and/or Looker, ensuring performance, data integrity, and stakeholder usability.
• Perform deep-dive analytics to identify trends and anomalies.