Royalties Manager

What you’ll do

• Own the end-to-end preparation, review, and timely submission of royalty statements to licensors, developers, publishers, and other third-party partners.
• Receive and review royalty statements and payments from our licensees to ensure they are complete, accurate, and reasonable.
• Act as the primary point of contact for royalty-related queries from internal stakeholders and external partners as required.
• Validate game sales, revenue share amounts, contractual deductions, recoupment positions, and royalty payments against the relevant agreements.
• Read and interpret royalty provisions in contracts, identify the financial implications, and investigate discrepancies or unusual movements.
• Maintain complete supporting documentation, reconciliations, review evidence, and internal controls for all royalty activity.
• Coordinate with accounting, games publishing, business development, and legal teams to obtain reliable data and resolve open items.
• Oversee royalty management for all Atari studios, globally, and establish consistent processes across the Atari organization.
• Support royalty-related accounting, including accruals, forecasts, payment preparation, audit requests, and responses to partner queries.
• Act as the central point of contact for royalty questions, ensuring issues are followed through rather than left between teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve, automate, and standardize royalty processes across entities, systems, and reporting cycles.
• Contribute to a stronger control environment by documenting processes, testing key controls, and recommending practical improvements.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience managing royalties, licensing finance, revenue share reporting, or a closely related function in media and entertainment; experience in games is strongly preferred.
• Strong ability to interpret commercial contracts and translate contractual terms into accurate financial calculations and reporting.
• Experience owning a recurring reporting or payment cycle where accuracy, completeness, and deadlines matter.
• A rigorous, audit-minded approach to reviewing numbers, reconciling data, documenting decisions, and identifying exceptions.
• Sound judgment and critical thinking, with the confidence to challenge information that does not look right and investigate until the issue is understood.
• Strong follow-through: you will be comfortable chasing data, decisions, and actions across teams and keeping work moving to completion.

Nice to have / Preferred

• Experience in the video games or entertainment industry, including working with publishers, licensors, developers, or platform partners.
• Experience managing royalty processes across multiple entities, jurisdictions, currencies, or accounting systems.
• Experience supporting internal and external audits, royalty audits, contractual reviews, or partner disputes.
• Experience improving or automating royalty reporting, reconciliations, or control processes.
• Familiarity with revenue recognition, accruals, forecasting, and month-end accounting in a licensing or content business.
• Experience reviewing or coordinating royalty activity across an acquired business or group structure.

What we offer

Atari is building a more consistent global operating model across a group of game studios and businesses, including Nightdive, Coatsink, Stormteller, Early Morning Studios, Infogrames, Hipster Whale, Digital Eclipse, and Implicit Conversions. This role offers the opportunity to establish a critical control and reporting function across a growing international games group, work directly with teams across the business, and make a visible improvement to how royalty management operates.

Alongside that, we offer flexible hours, enhanced holiday, company sick pay, pension enrolment, and annual pay reviews. You'll also benefit from enhanced maternity and paternity leave, dependants leave, career breaks, and bi-annual appraisals. Additional benefits include life insurance, a health cash plan, and mental health support through Saldo, plus metro pass and cycle schemes, in-person and virtual events, access to previously released titles, and the chance to work with cutting-edge technology.

EEO Statement

Atari is an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. We are committed to equal employment regardless of race, religion or lack thereof, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, medical condition, veteran status, ancestry, disability status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information, political affiliation, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.