Job Description

Royalties Coordinator
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At Warner Music Group, were 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:
xe2x97x8f Curiosity: We do our best work when were 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.
xe2x97x8f 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.
xe2x97x8f Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and were 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.
Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.
Job Title: Royalties Coordinator
A little bit about our team:
Reporting to the Royalty Supervisor, you will be working within a team of 20. Youll be responsible for a number of Classical, Catalogue and Frontline labels,
ensuring our artists are paid on time. Youll be the expert in your area knowing all there is to know about your accounts, answering queries, making payments and issuing statements.
Your role:

• This is an Account management style role where you will be responsible for timely and accurate preparation of six monthly royalty statements to the artists within your client group.
• This end-to-end process will allow you to be responsible for the Artists royalty account from the moment their agreement is signed, to setting up the release of new products, to preparing and checking the royalty statements, to sending the statements and liaising with the artist or artist representative.
• This is the culmination of everything the company is working towards we have signed some great talent and now you are showing them how much they have achieved.

Here youll get to:

• You will interpret and implement artist recording agreements received from Business Affairs
• to the royalty system.
• You will review and apply recoupable costs to the accounts where relevant.
• You will manage new release set up; liaising with other departments within WMUK to
• ensure all necessary information is obtained.
• You will prepare royalty statements with an acute level of attention to detail.
• You will ensure all payments due are processed by the contractual deadlines.
• You will communicate directly with Artists and Artist representatives either by phone, email
• or in person to answer queries in relation to Royalty Statements.

About you:

• You are educated to a minimum A-level standard (with good academic grades).
• You are highly organised with an excellent level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• You have the ability to work well under pressure and to meet tight deadlines.
• You are able to take own initiative and responsibility over own workload, while working within the goals of the team.
• Experience of managing data and good analytical skills.
• You have good communication skills, both written and verbal.

We'd Love it if you also had:

• Previous royalty experience or experience within the music or finance industry.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Excel
• A passion for music

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 worlds 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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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.