Assistant Royalty Manager

At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:

• Curiosity: We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future.
• Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.
• Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.

WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.

A Little Bit About Our Team

Reporting to the Royalty Manager, you will be working within a team of 20. You’ll be responsible for all the Warner UK labels including Parlophone, Atlantic and Classics ensuring our artists are paid on time. You’ll be the expert in your area knowing all there is to know about our accounts, answering queries, approving payments and statements.

Here You’ll Get To:

• Deputise for the Royalty Manager where necessary.
• Approve and prepare quarterly and six monthly royalty statements ensuring contractual guidelines are met.
• Approve the interpretation and implementation of artist recording agreements to the royalty system.
• Approve the set-up of new releases to ensure all participants are captured.
• Liaise with the financial planners to ensure accurate recoupable cost information is extracted from GFS and interfaced to WARS.
• Management of a caseload of complex queries, support for audit reviews and other project work, including providing supporting documents as requested during Artist and SOX audits.
• Maintain WARS data tables including artist responsibility, territory and config groupings ensuring WARS data is kept in line with MUR.
• Management of workload and assisting the Royalty Manager on an ad hoc basis.

About You:

• Significant experience of artist accounting within a royalties department (min 2-3 years).
• Highly organised with an acute level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Experience of supervising a team.
• Prepared to take responsibility and be accountable for your own workload.
• Able to work on own initiative and as a team player.
• Comfortable with communicating effectively with employees at all levels.
• 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.
• Ability to work well under pressure and to meet tight deadlines.

We’d Love It If You Also Had:

• You have experience of artist accounting within a royalty department.
• You have knowledge of interpreting contractual information.

About Us:

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. And 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.

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.