Royalty Assistant

BBC Studios; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media company is seeking a Royalty Assistant to manage and ensure accurate payments to rights holders. The role involves analyzing agreements, managing royalty accounting terms, and coordinating data. The ideal candidate will have strong numerical analysis skills and experience with databases, particularly Excel. This is a full-time role based in London with a hybrid working model, offering up to £30,000 based on experience.

Qualifications

• Experience with databases and ability to summarize complex datasets.
• Proficient in numerical analysis and interpreting financial information.
• Experience in preparing royalty accounting statements.

Responsibilities

• Analyse rights acquisition agreements for accounting obligations.
• Reflect royalty terms on the royalty system according to agreements.
• Coordinate monthly data uploads for royalty calculations.
• Validate royalty calculations and ensure timely completion.
• Resolve queries from stakeholders.

Skills

Experience working with databases

Strong proficiency in numerical analysis

Experience in interpreting complex financial information

Experience of manually preparing royalty accounting statements

Good understanding of media rights and distribution agreements

Tools

Excel

Job description

Overview

JOB DETAILS

JOB TITLE: Royalty Assistant
JOB BAND: B
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time
DEPARTMENT: BBC Studios Finance – Talent Accounting
LOCATION: London – Hybrid

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: up to £30,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. London Weighting (£5,441) will be added on top of the base salary. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights. We are happy to discuss flexible working; please indicate your preference in the application (no obligation to decide now). Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

WE ARE BBC STUDIOS
A globally renowned media company borne of the BBC. We make and distribute the world’s most sought-after TV, audio and digital content. Our ambition is to be the home of the most powerful, entertaining, and inspiring stories for people all around the world.

Purpose of the Role

As a Royalty Assistant, you’ll be responsible for ensuring rights holders are paid accurately and promptly. You’ll play a pivotal role in managing royalty accounting terms across global distribution channels, helping uphold BBC Studios’ reputation and drive its content acquisition strategy.

Why Join the Team

Be part of a team that sits at the heart of BBC Studios’ commercial success. You’ll work with a wide range of stakeholders, gain exposure to high-value contracts, and contribute to the smooth running of a department responsible for over £130m in annual payments. It’s a dynamic, detail-driven environment with real impact.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Analyse rights acquisition agreements e.g. distribution agreements with independent production companies and other rights clearance information to determine the business’ accounting and reporting obligations on distribution revenues.
• Determine how to reflect the royalty accounting terms on the royalty system (Rightsline), referencing historic agreements to enable compliance with contractual reporting obligations and internal reporting requirements.
• Coordinate the monthly uploads of data into the royalty system from other BBCS systems required to enable all royalty and profit share calculations. This includes sales, distribution costs and content metadata.
• Review and validate an allocation of royalty calculations (accruals and payments) ensuring they reflect contractual terms and are completed in time to meet contractual deadlines.
• Resolve queries from internal and external stakeholders.

Essential Criteria

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Experience working with databases with the ability to extract and summarise complex datasets (Excel).
• Strong proficiency in numerical analysis.
• Experience in interpreting and analysing complex financial information.
• Experience of manually preparing royalty accounting statements.
• Good understanding of media rights and distribution agreements.

Desired But Not Required

Accounting and/or legal background (desirable). Background in accounting and/or legal fields. Familiarity with royalty systems (training provided over 6 months).

Next Steps

We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. This step is necessary to ensure we can provide a high level of attention and service to all applicants. Thank you for your understanding.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and, if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

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Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Redeployment: The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants.