Royalty Assistant

Believe; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading music publishing company is seeking a Royalty Assistant to support the Royalties team in Liverpool. The role focuses on ensuring accurate matching of income while interacting with various departments and enhancing song data quality. Ideal candidates will have excellent communication skills, attention to detail, and an interest in the music industry. This position offers competitive benefits and a hybrid work model, welcoming applications from diverse backgrounds.

Benefits

25 days annual leave increasing with service

Salary sacrifice pension

Optional Private Medical Insurance

Hybrid working options

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Basic understanding of the music publishing industry is preferable.
• Previous admin experience is advantageous.
• Knowledge of music publishing industry through education or experience is preferable.

Responsibilities

• Support the Royalties team with accurate matching of income.
• Interact with various departments to maximize accuracy of royalty matching.
• Daily review of unmatched income and ensure full matching.
• Assist with special projects and ad hoc duties.

Skills

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Keen attention to detail

Prioritisation and organisation skills

High level of numeracy

Basic Excel skills

Job description

Acquired by Believe in 2023, Sentric is an independent music publisher servicing self-releasing songwriters and disrupting traditional publishing with fair, transparent deals. We recently launched Believe Music Publishing, offering premium services from publishing administration to tailored publishing deals. Together, we empower a diverse client base of artists, songwriters, record labels, and catalogue owners to collect the royalties they deserve.

With intuitive technology and a people-first approach, we’ve built a team of over 160 publishing experts worldwide, including more than 15 Sync specialists across North America and Europe, and dedicated teams in Creative, Revenue Optimisation, Royalties, Legal, and Copyright.

Believe is a global artist development company. We empower local artists, labels and publishers to grow their audiences at each stage of their careers with expertise, respect, fairness and transparency.

Operating in 50+ countries, with more than 2,000 employees, Believe offers a full range of services including audience development, publishing, marketing and distribution, with a tailor‑made approach to fit any artist, label or publisher.

Believe champions independence and innovation through a unique model that combines local expertise with a global tech platform, delivering exclusive solutions for artists to promote and monetize their music thanks to strategic partnerships with leading global digital service providers. With a leading portfolio of brands that includes Nuclear Blast, naïve, TuneCore, Groove Attack, Sentric, AllPoints and Byond, Believe artists generated more than 800 billion streams worldwide in 2024 across all genres, and were recognized with more than 70 leading industry awards.

Believe is a simplified joint‑stock company under French law. Learn more at www.believe.com

Department Objectives

The Royalty Team performs a key role in the Music Publishing cycle, ensuring accurate and timely payment of client’s royalties. Our aim is to provide a first class experience to our clients by:

• Efficiently Processing Incoming Statements.
• Accurately Matching Income.
• Accelerate Client Payments.
• Enhance Data Quality.
• Constantly looking to improve and evolve processes.

Job Summary

The royalty assistant will be responsible for supporting the Royalties team with a focus on ensuring accurate matching of income. They will interact with various departments internally to maximise the accuracy of all royalty matching and enhance the quality of song data.

Job Description

Royalty Matching Administration

• Daily review of unmatched income, ensuring full matching of all received income.
• Weekly reporting of identified matches.
• Review, identify and resolve any share conflicts with Rights Team.
• Ensure accurate Society Work Numbers are recorded and correct on all versions of Songs and assist with data enrichment exercises.
• Provide Client Management with unmatched works list for managed clients.
• Assist wider team with additional Royalty tasks.

Additional Support

• Assist with special projects initiated by the wider Royalty division, ensuring a qualitative and timely resolution of assigned project tasks.
• Assist the Royalty Team during key points throughout Sentric Music’s royalty distribution cycles.
• Assist Royalty team with ad hoc duties to cover holiday periods etc.

Qualifications

Skills

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Keen attention to detail, accuracy and detail‑driven
• Demonstrable, prioritisation, organisation and deadline management skills required
• High level of numeracy
• Basic excel skills are preferred

Knowledge

• Basic understanding of the music publishing industry is preferable

Attitude

• Positive approach to problem solving
• Enthusiasm for working with artists and business partners at all levels
• Collaborative approach to outcomes
• Ability to maintain a professional manner when handling song disputes and duplicate claims
• Persistent drive to complete tasks in an accurate and timely manner.

Experience

• Previous admin experience is advantageous
• Knowledge of music publishing industry either through education or previous work experience is preferable

We welcome applications from all backgrounds and celebrate the diversity that makes great teams.

We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role. However, candidates with existing visas that grant the right to work in the UK and do not require our sponsorship (e.g. spousal visa, settled status) are welcome to apply.

SET THE TONE WITH US

Working at Believe means having individual and collective impact in a fast-growing company!

At all stages of their careers, Believers are an important part of what we are doing: shaping the future of the music industry.

We need teams that truly reflect the diversity of our clients: our international presence is an inspiring and enriching work environment for each one of us, with daily opportunities to connect with our colleagues all over the world.

We have two hearts at Believe - our People and our Artists.

We believe in THE POWER OF OUR PEOPLE, who grow every day to develop their potential… We aim to provide our Believers with the best environment to thrive.

ROCK THE JOB

• 25 days annual leave increasing with length of service (28 days at 3 years, 30 days at 5 years)
• 1 day off for your Birthday & 1 day off to move house each year.
• Salary sacrifice pension with matched employer contributions
• Life Assurance and Group Income Protection Plan
• Optional Private Medical Insurance (BIK)
• Enhanced Employee Assistance Program
• Believe Academy - dedicated learning and development platform
• Hybrid working options for all teams
• Sociable office spaces
• Monthly wellbeing initiatives

SING IN HARMONY

• Ambassador program: an employee volunteering initiative dedicated to all Believers interested in having a positive impact on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), wellbeing and the planet.

We are committed to having a workforce that is representative of the community it serves at all levels of the organisation. We, therefore, welcome applications from all backgrounds and all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion and sexual orientation.