Y Royalties – Junior Data Analyst (London)

Y Royalties was established in 2023 by Colin Young, Ben Marlow and Gary Groutage. Offering services in Transaction Services, Data Management, Rights Management, Royalty Audit and Royalty Accounting. Y Royalties started from the Royalties division at Award Winning Accountancy firm, CC Young & Co, which celebrates its 27th Year in the Music Industry this year.

We are seeking a Junior Data Analyst to join the Data team in our next stage of development. Our key clients include financial investors, copyright holders such as record companies, publishers, writers, and artists.

We are looking for a capable and driven Junior Data Analyst to join our technology function at a leading royalty services company, supporting some of the biggest names in the global music industry. Over the past few years, Y Royalties has developed powerful cloud-based technologies to analyse clients' royalty data. This role will be supporting the data team to meet data deliveries using our in-house technologies. The person will assist with analytic reports and projects required by all areas of the business including audits, rights management, transaction services and third-party accounting. In tandem, the role will be influential in undertaking and evolving data mapping procedures involving ML and LLM procedures, allowing one to learn the fundamentals behind royalty accounting and integrating with next-gen data capabilities.

The role is suited to someone who is early in their career but has ambition to succeed in analytics, particularly within the music royalty space.

Why Join Us? Y Royalties is a data-led, relaxed and innovative workplace with a leading presence in the music rights space. Our Data team is the backbone of our organisation and this role is an opportunity to be an integral member as we take on more high-profile projects and designs. You will have daily exposure to all other teams – working closely with experts in their field to boost your personal development and enable you to contribute to the growth of the company with a dynamic team.

Key Responsibilities

• Analytic Reporting: You will be assisting with the delivery of reports to all areas of the business including but not limited to: audits, transaction services, rights management, transaction services, 3rd party accounting. You will also be involved in the daily collation and reporting of catalogue metadata from a variety of sources and accuracy evaluation reporting tasks. You will be providing data quality reports within the data team and be a pivotal voice in improving day-to-day workloads during daily stand-ups.
• Royalty Data Mapping and Reconciliations: You will be working directly with the royalty data to assist with data mapping procedures to enable data ingestion to run smoothly throughout the business. Through this, you will be directly implementing ML and LLM models and will be assisting the data scientists in the training to further improve categorisation and labelling accuracy. You will be undergoing a variety of reconciliation tasks to make sure data deliveries are accurate and in line with the provided documentation.
• Business Development: You will be included in the internal data agile working sprints that run every two weeks in relation to data development work. Therefore, you will be an integral member in improving and evolving our technology and infrastructure to stay ahead of the competition and provide cutting-edge capabilities.

Required Experience & Skills

• You will be an ambitious individual who is eager to gain experience in the field of analytics.
• You will have a keen eye for detail and a need for numerical accuracy.
• Excellent written and verbal communications.
• You will be a team player, capable of listening and acting on instructions from team members with a capability to undertake work both as a group and on their own initiative.
• You will have a degree in a relevant field such as mathematics, finance, and/or analytics.
• Any programmatic background or BI Tooling is a nice-to-have.
• Work experience is not essential, but having exposure to the music industry or analytics in a business setting is a plus.
• A passion for music is essential, holding the ethos of fairness and assisting creatives to succeed.

What we Offer

• A unique opportunity to begin a career in music royalties and analytics, working with cutting-edge technologies and colleagues with decades of specific knowledge.
• Working in a friendly and relaxed team that is the backbone of the company and an integral member in business development for the future.
• Collaborative, passionate culture blending finance, music, and engineering.

Equal opportunities: Y Royalties Ltd is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all staff and job applicants. We aim to create a working environment in which all individuals are able to make best use of their skills, free from discrimination, and in which all decisions are based on merit.