Our client, a global music company, is seeking a highly organised Royalty Income Analyst to join their team for a six-month contract, working four days a week in their central London offices. The role sits within the International Royalty team and will involve contributing to the day-to-day operations of royalty processing.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Managing and delivering accurate royalty runs to schedule.
- Prioritising suspense items releases.
- Receiving cash receipt details, royalty statements and data files from societies and third parties.
- Loading royalties accurately using data review and analysis.
- Preparing reports and presentations of royalties for management review.
- Working across both manual and industry formats to load royalty income into the inhouse royalty system.
- Researching with the team how to reduce the values of income going into Suspense.
- Using the inhouse royalty system to match works to royalty income accurately.
- Ensuring that songwriters' royalty statements align with money due.
- Conducting income reconciliation on both a monthly and quarterly basis.
- Supporting with ad hoc duties and project-based work for the global administration division.
- Responding to inquiries.
Requirements:
- Experience working in the music industry and using royalties databases is advantageous.
- Previous experience working with royalties processing is desirable.
- Strong interpersonal skills, able to communicate effectively with colleagues.
- Excellent mathematical, analytical and detail orientated abilities.
- Able to rapidly learn new processes and systems.
- Problem solving abilities and able to suggest improvements to work methods.
- Strong Excel skills and data manipulation.
- Results-driven and highly organised, able to meet deadlines consistently.
- Love of music and recognises the value of service to rights holders.
- Confident working in a busy office environment.
Please note that due to the volume of submissions, only successful candidates who meet the exact requirements will be contacted. If you have not heard back within 10 days of submission, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
The Music Market/Arts and Media are an equal opportunities employer who supports diversity in the workplace.