Royalties and Rights Officer

An exciting position has arisen for a Royalties & Rights Officer to work for an excellent Membership Organisation to provide some critical support to the group finance team with their royalty accounting. 

Key responsibilities:

• To work with colleagues, with the support and assistance of the Royalties & Rights Co-ordinator, in the following areas
• Work with the Rights & Contracts team to set up the royalty calculations for new deals
• Work with the Rights & Contracts team to amend or extend existing royalty calculations, as required
• Work with the Distribution teams to sense check reporting on deals prior to issue to rights holders
• With the Royalties and Rights & Contracts teams to support error clearance and implementation of lessons learned for deal set up and amendment on Media Maestro (MM)
• To work with the Royalties & Rights Co-ordinator, reviewing their deal set ups and allocating appropriate titles for their completion
• To work with the teams, primarily the Senior Royalties & Rights Manager and Vistex (MM software provider) to review current processes and understand existing MM functionality that may be used to improve processes, and support implementation of new processes
• To ensure that deals are set up to accurately report on royalties, including the recoupment of advances and costs
• To work on investigation and resolution of complex and/or urgent royalty queries
• To support the prioritisation of queries and responses on royalty matters

Successful candidate profile:

• Experience setting up royalty deals on a royalty system
• Understanding on film rights contracts and royalty calculations
• Experience with MM (Media Maestro) is desirable
• Excellent communication skills – written and verbal and strong attention to details

Agency Reference Number: J82605

Hours: Part-time, 16.5 hours (2 days per week)

Rate: £40,000 - £47,500 per annum (Full-time Equivalent)

Working pattern: Hybrid (once a week in the office)  

Location: Fitzrovia, London

Duration: 9 month FTC

This vacancy will be actively shortlisted so early applications are encouraged to avoid missing out.

Venn Group is an equal opportunities Business.