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About the Role
The EMEA SSC Royalties team ensures accurate and timely payment of royalties to WMG's talent. This role supports the Royalty Manager in overseeing daily operations of the UK Royalties team, processing royalty statements, and interpreting complex contracts.
Responsibilities
- Support the end-to-end statement and payment lifecycles for world-renowned record labels.
- Guarantee that artists, producers, and mixers receive highly accurate royalty statements and payments exactly on time.
- Partner closely with A&R, Legal, and Finance teams to navigate complex artist contracts and streamline financial workflows.
- Deputize for the Royalty Manager where necessary, showcasing leadership skills and the ability to manage workload effectively.
- Turn complex music usage and streaming data into tangible financial rewards.
- Prepare and assist with sign-off quarterly and six-monthly royalty statements ensuring contractual guidelines are met.
- Assist with approval of interpretation and implementation of artist recording agreements to the royalty system.
- Assist with approval of set-up of new releases to ensure all participants are captured.
Requirements
- Highly organized with an excellent level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Ability to work well under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
- Prepared to take responsibility and be accountable for workload.
- Comfortable communicating with stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership and artist management.
- Able to work on own initiative and as a team player.
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Looking for constant improvements with a view to achieving best working practice.
- Able to master the dual requirement of attention to detail and to focus on the 'big picture' issues.
- Understanding of high-level complex royalty accounts, including standard accounting, profit shares, and distribution deals.
- Experience reviewing and approving accounts.
Skills
- Enterprise royalty systems/software
- Interpreting and implementing contractual information
- Microsoft Office or Google Suite skills (particularly Excel and/or Sheets e.g. XLOOKUP/VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, data manipulation)
- Working knowledge of SAP
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Minimum 2-3 years of artist accounting experience within a royalties department
- Experience of supervising a team
About the Company
- Warner Music Group is a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members.
- WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success.
- As the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, East West, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and several other of the world’s premier recording labels, Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike.
- Our renowned publishing company, Warner Chappell Music, represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide.
- Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX.
- In addition, WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.
- Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.
Equal Opportunity
- WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business.
- We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religion or belief, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or any other characteristic protected by law.