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The role provides expert oversight of complex agreement review, approval, contract and product administration, operational suspense resolution, vendor-related contract data and author or Portfolio queries across supported geographies and lines of business.\nOperating with a high degree of autonomy, you will review and approve high-profile and non-standard author agreements, make standard and non-standard operational recommendations, protect contractual and financial data integrity, and ensure that turnaround time, service-level and internal-control commitments are achieved. You will understand how contract operations connectsto royalty calculations, product structures, author payments and the wider business.\nYou will act as a trusted subject-matter expert, lead contract-related improvement initiatives, provide clear performance insights to stakeholders, and strengthen team capability through peer review, mentoring and technical guidance. This is an advanced specialist role and does not carry formal line-management accountability.\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\nHigh-profile, complexand non-standard agreements are reviewed and approved accurately, within SLA and with complete supporting evidence.\n\nContract and product data is complete, current and reliable across relevant systems, enabling accurate downstream royalty calculations and author payouts.\n\nContract-related suspense items are researched and resolved accurately, with sales allocated to the correct product, authorand agreement.\n\nPeer audits, quality reviews and controls identify risk before it affects financial results, royalty statements or author experience.\n\nBacklogs, turnaround time and service levels are actively managed, with priorities and dependencies made visible to the Manager and stakeholders.\n\nAuthor, Portfolio and business queries receive clear, timely and evidence-based responses.\n\nDashboards and reporting provide meaningful insight into volumes, SLA, quality, exceptions, trends and improvement opportunities.\n\nJunior colleagues receive effective mentoring and feedback that improves quality, judgementand consistency.\n\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES\n1. Complex Agreement Review and Approval\nPerform comprehensive review and approval of executed publishing agreements, amendments, addenda and related documentation, with particular focus on high-profile authors and complex or non-standard terms.\n\nValidate key contractual, financial, rights, territory, format, product, royalty-rate, advance and payment attributes before approval or release for downstream use.\n\nAssess the completeness and operational usability of documentation and coordinate clarification with Portfolio, Editorial, Legalor other accountable owners.\n\nMake evidence-based standardand non-standard operational recommendations within delegated authority and escalate legal, policy or commercial interpretation when required.\n\nMaintain a clear audit trail of the agreement review, exceptions, clarification, approval and correction process.\n\n2. Peer Audit, Quality Assurance and Controls\nConduct risk-based peer audits of approved agreements to confirm contractual, financialand system accuracy.\n\nReview work completed by junior colleagues and provideclear corrective guidance, coachingand quality feedback.\n\nEnsure segregation of duties, delegated authority, approval evidence and other internal controls are consistently applied.\n\nAnalysedefects and repeat errors, identify root causes and implement preventive actions, targeted reviews or knowledge interventions.\n\nProtect the quality of tasks and advice provided by self and others while maintaining accountability with the original process owner.\n\n3. Contract and Product Administration\nOversee accurate contract and product setup, maintenance, indexing, archival and linkage across approved contract, rights and royalty administration systems.\n\nEnsure product and agreement relationships are correctly structured to support royalty processing, reporting and author payments.\n\nValidate approved changes and corrections across relevant records and confirm that downstream impacts are addressed.\n\nMaintain reliable operational records, trackers, repositoriesand supporting documentation in line with retention and data-privacy requirements.\n\nProvide expert operational advice on product structures, agreement setupsand processing dependencies.\n\n4. Contract-Related Suspense Management\nLead the investigation of complex sales held in suspense, particularly items affecting high-profile authors or material royalty outcomes.\n\nResearch executed agreements, amendments, product records, system data and supporting evidence to identify the correct product, authorand agreement allocation.\n\nCoordinate required clarification with Contracts, Portfolio, Editorial, Rights, Royalties or Legal and document the approved treatment.\n\nEnable accurate clearance or allocation of suspense items and maintain a complete evidence trail for the operational decision.\n\nAnalyserecurring suspense causes and recommendpreventive improvements to contract setup, product administration, data quality or upstream processes.\n\n5. SLA, Turnaround Time and Workflow Oversight\nMonitor agreement-processing volumes, turnaround time, service levels, ageing, exceptions and priority commitments across assigned geographies or lines of business.\n\nWork with the Manager to organiseand assign work, rebalance priorities and address capacity or dependency risks according to business demand.\n\nMeet or exceed individual agreement-review and approval commitments and support consistent team achievement of agreed SLAs.\n\nEscalate material backlog, control, system or stakeholder risks early, supported by impact analysis and recovery actions.\n\nKeep standard operating procedures, job aids, checklistsand control documentation aligned with current processes and service expectations.\n\n6. Data Governance, Analytics and Reporting\nPromote strong data governance within Contract Operations and ensure contract and product information remainsaccurate, complete, consistent and current.\n\nPerform data maintenance and validation exercises and coordinate remediation of identified gaps or anomalies.\n\nUse analytics and reporting tools to produce dashboards and management information covering key performance indicators, quality, SLA, volumes, ageing, trends and exceptions.\n\nTurn operational data into clear insights and recommendations for the Manager and business stakeholders.\n\nPresent team performance, risk and value-delivery updates through clear, data-led business presentations.\n\n7. Stakeholder, Author and Portfolio Support\nAct as a subject-matter expert for assigned geographies or business areas and build trusted relationships across multiple lines of business.\n\nRespond to complex author, agent, Portfolio and internal stakeholder queries with timely, accurate and evidence-based communication.\n\nCollaborate with Royalties and connected functions to support accurate contractual treatment and timely author payouts.\n\nExplain contract-processing requirements, risks, dependencies and recommended options to technical and non-technical audiences.\n\nInfluence resolution through subject expertise and constructive challenge, without relying on formal authority.\n\n8. Projects, Technology and Continuous Improvement\nLead or provide senior specialist support for strategic initiatives, contract migrations, new business onboarding and process transformation.\n\nPartner with technology teams to investigate system or data defects, define operational requirementsand validate sustainable solutions.\n\nSupport user acceptance testing, implementationreadiness, defect validation and post-implementation review.\n\nIdentify opportunities to simplify, standardiseand automate agreement review, product administration, quality assurance and reporting.\n\nManage competing projectand operational priorities with clear planning, accountabilityand progress reporting.\n\n9. Mentoring and Technical Leadership \nProvide day-to-day technical guidance, coaching and mentoring to junior team members and peers.\n\nSupport colleagues in developing agreement-review, product-setup, analytical, control and stakeholder-management capability.\n\nLead case reviews, knowledge sessionsand quality discussions that strengthen consistency and judgement.\n\nModel ownership, attention to detail, customer focusand sound risk management.\n\nSupport the Manager in prioritisingcomplex work and building resilient operational capability, without formal people-management accountability.","description_format":"text","description_chars":8678,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-27T23:46:48Z"},{"event":"close","at":"2026-10-23T19:01:21Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":null,"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/pearson-advanced-specialist-financial-operations","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/pearson-advanced-specialist-financial-operations.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-31T01:13:51Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1718,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-01T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":34029},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=34029"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fpearson-advanced-specialist-financial-operations"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fpearson-advanced-specialist-financial-operations"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fpearson-advanced-specialist-financial-operations"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/pearson-advanced-specialist-financial-operations\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fpearson-advanced-specialist-financial-operations"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":1360532}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"pearson.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":1360532},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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