Director Intellectual Property / License Audits

What You’ll Do

• Build and lead a small team of royalty audit experts to maximize business impact for TomTom.
• Create strong visibility and awareness of the royalty audit function across the organization. Develop and maintain effective relationships with key business stakeholders.
• Develop a strategic royalty audit plan and present it to senior management and the audit committee.
• Translate the audit plan into a detailed budget and communicate it effectively to management.
• Monitor the progress and outcomes of royalty audits to ensure alignment with objectives.
• Collaborate with internal teams to identify and prioritize customer audits.
• Evaluate the performance and effectiveness of external audit firms.
• Drive the execution of a royalty audit roadmap that delivers meaningful, value-added results. Ensure high-quality planning and timely execution of audits, both internally and by external partners. Present clear, well-structured reports and findings to management and the audit committee.
• Translate audit findings into actionable improvements in customer contracts.

What You’ll Need

• A Master’s degree, ideally combined with a recognized professional qualification (e.g., RA, RO, RE, CIA, or CISA).
• At least 5 years of experience conducting royalty audits, preferably within the Technology, Media, and Telecom (TMT) industry or at a professional services firm (e.g., Big 4).
• Proven experience managing and developing a team, with a focus on engagement and supervision.
• 5–10 years of experience in finance or audit management roles.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to act as a key business partner.
• A process-oriented, analytical mindset with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• A self-starter who thrives under minimal supervision.
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.

What’s Nice to Have

• A strong interest in technology and its application to business process improvement.
• Experience working in Shared Service Centers or Global Business Services environments.

What we offer

• A competitive compensation package, of course.
• Time and resources to grow and develop, including a personal development budget and paid leave for learning days, as well as paid access to e-learning resources such as O’Reilly and LinkedIn Learning.
• Time to support life outside of work, with enhanced parental leave plus paid leave to care for loved ones and volunteer in local communities.
• Work flexibility, where TomTom’ers, in agreement with their manager and team, use both the office and home to focus, collaborate, learn and socialize. It’s all about getting the best out of both worlds – we ask TomTom’ers to come to the office two days a week, and the remaining three are free to be worked in either location.
• Improve your home office with a setup budget and get extra support with a monthly allowance.
• Enjoy options to work from your home country and abroad for a set number of days each year, to visit family and friends, or to simply explore the world we’re mapping.
• Take the holidays you want with a competitive holiday plan, plus an extra day off to celebrate your birthday.
• Join annual events like our Hackathon and DevDays to bring your ideas to life with talented teammates from around the world.
• Become a part of our inclusive global culture and have the chance to collaborate with a diverse community – we have over 80 nationalities at TomTom!

Meet your team

We are the TomTom Global Businesses Services team, part of the CFO Office. We support TomTom with accounting, reporting, procurement, payroll, and more, and technology is at the core of what we do. We're always innovating to continue to raise the bar when it comes to our services and tooling. Our success lies in the journey itself – we measure it based on how we approach the challenges we face and the hard work we do to overcome them. In our team, you’ll join us on this journey and contribute directly to our success.

At TomTom, you’ll help people find their way in the world. In 2004, TomTom revolutionized how the world moves with the introduction of the first portable navigation device. Now, we intend to do it again by engineering the first-ever real-time map, the smartest and most useful map on the planet.

Work with a team of 3,500 unique, curious and passionate problem-solvers. Together, we’ll open up a world of possibilities for car manufacturers, enterprises and developers to help people understand and get closer to the world around them.

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