Assistant Royalty Manager

Assistant Royalty Manager page is loaded Assistant Royalty Manager Apply remote type In Office locations GBR - 27 Wrights Lane - London time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday time left to apply End Date: June 27, 2025 (30+ days left to apply) job requisition id R-025407 Assistant Royalty Manager

Job Description:

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

Curiosity : We do our best work when we're immersing ourselves inculture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving forcebehind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation isthe key to our future.

Collaboration : Making music and bringing it to the world is all aboutthe power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like agreat song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connectionsacross our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, andfans.

Commitment : We pursue excellence for our team and our talent.Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we'recommitted to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering onour 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 workenvironment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. Weencourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.

Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds - an innovativeglobal music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimbleindependent.

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.
• Comfortable with communicating effectively with artist management.
• 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.

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Don't be discouraged if you don't hear from us right away. We're taking our time to review all resumes, and to find the best people for WMG.

Thanks for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here, and think you will, too.

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.