Royalty Supervisor 0704

Our client, a global music company, is seeking a Royalty Supervisor for a five-month temporary contract within their royalties division. The role will be line managing two staff members and involve supporting the Royalty Manager where needed.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Preparing quarterly and six-monthly royalty statements and ensuring they adhere to contractual guidelines.

• Conducting regular review and management of suspense accounts.

• Interpreting and implementing artist recording agreements to the royalty system.

• Researching new releases to ensure all participants are captured.

• Managing new release set up to ensure beneficiary management with full label copy.

• Ensuring new products are set up correctly on the royalty system with correct participants.

• Liaising with internal teams to obtain information needed.

• Liaising with financial planners to ensure accurate recoupable cost information is obtained.  

• Ensuring the correction allocation of recoupable costs across label artists.

• Supervising two colleagues who support the preparation of royalty statements, beneficiary management, processing payments, and new digital product set up.

• Deputising for the Royalty Manager where required.

• Supporting the Royalty Manager on an ad hoc basis.

• Contributing to the Royalty Accounting Guidelines.

• Serving as an initial point of contact for Artist Managers.

Requirements:

• Substantial and meaningful experience with artist accounting within a royalties department.

• Previous experience with training, supporting, and developing direct line reports.

• Good communication skills, and able to confidently interact with artists/artist management, senior management, and auditors.

• Able to work independently and as part of a team.

• Able to manage complex caseloads, with various reporting requirements and priorities.

• Meticulous attention to detail and accuracy.

• Excellent organisational skills, able to be accountable for own workload and meet deadlines consistently.

• Capable of keeping in mind the wider scope of work while keeping attention to detail.

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.

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