Job Description: Royalties Manager
Reporting to: Head of Royalties
What we do
[PIAS] champions and supports the best independent music in the world across our unrivalled international network. Established in 1982, we operate 16 global offices, all leveraging local relationships to influence local gatekeepers. Our global operation has approx. 300 employees with 100 employees based in the UK.
Our Mission
- To be at the very heart of the independent music ecosystem
- To relentlessly and passionately discover, promote, market, sell and distribute the music of independent labels and artists.
- To spread the music we champion with passion, integrity, and care. To help it encounter audiences and success.
- To constantly challenge ourselves to improve.
The Role
The Royalties Manager role is primarily responsible for the day to day running of the Royalties team and with that the processing and distribution of statements for the [PIAS] Group. The effectiveness of the role is critical to meeting our various royalty deadlines and providing royalty information to management for the performance analysis. The role reports directly into the Head of Royalties.
Royalties
- Managing 2 direct reports to ensure the accurate set-up and maintenance of client data and repertoire royalty conditions within our group royalty system, Vistex’s Record Maestro.
- Managing large scale catalogue integrations
- Overseeing the collection and processing of all income streams such as physical, digital, neighbouring rights and third-party licensing income.
- Overseeing the processing and distributing of monthly label and bi-annual artist statements.
- Liaising with Business Affairs and Management to ensure accuracy within our reporting.
- Leading the analysis of income and reporting streams and ensure all processes are reviewed according to the outcomes of the analysis.
- Manage ad-hoc projects to improve efficiency of royalty process including analysis project on allocation of various income streams.
- Support the Head of Royalties with general royalty and audit tasks.
Management Reporting:
- Build and sustain an efficient flow of royalty data to the Finance teams worldwide.
- Provide any additional analysis required by Management, the Financial Controller or Head of Royalties.
The Candidate
Required:
- Experience of processing royalties (3 years minimum)
- Experience in people managing
- Experience in designing and implementing royalty processes and / or new royalty system integrations
- Excellent Excel skills with experience using Power Query / Power Pivot preferred
- High mathematical aptitude and analytical ability
- Organised and methodical with good attention to detail
- Ability to work under pressure meeting deadlines and work under own initiative
Desired:
- French Language
- Experience of Vistex’s Record Maestro
