Royalty Associate Manager

Hoxton Circle • New York, NY

8d • Onsite

About The Position

A well-established entertainment business is hiring a Royalty Associate Manager into its label finance team. This is a newly created role driven by growth, reporting directly into the VP of Label Finance. This is not a traditional royalty accounting position. Most roles in this space are administrative or transactional. This one owns the financial analysis behind artist royalties, including complex joint venture profit share arrangements, forecasting and process improvement. The function is being modernized rather than maintained, so there is real scope to build something.

Requirements

• Real experience with artist profit share or joint venture arrangements.
• Understanding of revenue allocations, recoupment, marketing and recording cost treatment and how contract terms drive the calculation.
• Hands-on royalty accounting experience where you reviewed and validated the numbers rather than simply coded them.
• Confident communicator who picks up the phone to solve a problem rather than sits behind a spreadsheet.
• Experience working across finance, partnering with AP, dealing with internal stakeholders and speaking directly with artist management.

Responsibilities

• Reviewing and validating monthly royalty statements, performing reasonableness reviews, preparing payment support and coordinating with third party royalty processors.
• Working on complex profit share statements, analyzing joint venture calculations, reviewing recoupable costs including marketing and recording spend, interpreting contract terms and approving costs before statements are released.
• Supporting legacy artist reporting and helping to automate manual processes.
• Building forecasting models, improving cash forecasting, supporting royalty accruals, developing reporting and taking ownership of third party processor relationships.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed