Senior Royalty Operations & Automation Lead

createmusicgroup; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Create Music Group in Los Angeles seeks a Senior Manager, Royalty Accounting & Operations to own the royalty pipeline across acquisitions and scale processing through automation. You will standardize reconciliation, govern ingestion workflows, and partner with Finance, A&R, and Data Engineering daily to drive a high-throughput royalty operation.

You will lead teams, define KPIs, and ensure accurate statements from multiple payors, with hands-on experience in enterprise royalty platforms and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business, music business, or information systems, or 5+ years in music business will be considered
• 4+ years in music royalty operations, royalty accounting, or income tracking at a label, publisher, distributor, or royalty administrator, including owning a full statement cycle end to end
• 2+ years of people management experience, ideally including managing other managers
• Direct, hands-on experience processing royalty statements at volume
• Deep working knowledge of inbound royalty statement processing: locating, ingesting, templating, matching, and validating statements from DSPs, distributors, PROs, licensees, and similar sources
• Reconciliation discipline across sources - statement detail to summary to cash received
• Strong command of core royalty accounting concepts: advances and recoupment, splits, reserves, accruals, withholding, and FX
• Able to read a contract or deal memo and trace how its terms should show up in a calculation
• Working knowledge of at least one enterprise royalty platform and ability to learn new ones quickly
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets capability: pivot tables, lookups, SUMIFS, data validation, and handling of high-volume data
• Experience acting as the escalation point for other royalty staff
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including explaining a royalty outcome to a non-royalty audience
• Organized and accurate under close-cycle deadlines
• Bonus Qualifications: SQL + cloud data warehouse; LO(D) programs; automation; BI tools; major label background

Responsibilities

• Own reconciliation across all revenue sources and resolve variances
• Manage the Royalties Manager and the Royalties Administration Manager; set technical standards
• Own tracking and ingestion of incoming Letters of Direction end to end
• Own statement ingestion automation and workflow optimization
• Set, publish, and hold operational KPIs for ingestion throughput and backlog burn-down
• Partner with Data Engineering to move statement ingestion off spreadsheets; define requirements for the next-gen platform
• Collaborate with Finance on deal-level performance reporting and data interpretation
• Perform statement and payor analysis on acquisitions during diligence
• Build the Royalty Readiness Assessment for each acquisition and issue a formal recommendation
• Manage, mentor, and develop the team
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

Advanced Excel

Data analysis

Leadership

Finance acumen

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business, music business, or information systems

Equivalent experience: 5+ years in music business

Tools

Label Engine

Curve

Vistex Music Maestro

Record Maestro

Counterpoint

SR1

Job description

Create Music Group in Los Angeles seeks a Senior Manager, Royalty Accounting & Operations to own the royalty pipeline across acquisitions and scale processing through automation. You will standardize reconciliation, govern ingestion workflows, and partner with Finance, A&R, and Data Engineering daily to drive a high-throughput royalty operation.

You will lead teams, define KPIs, and ensure accurate statements from multiple payors, with hands-on experience in enterprise royalty platforms and