# Royalty Analyst

**Company**: BBC Studios
**Location**: London, GBR
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: Up to £33,000 plus £5,441 London Weighting
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Media & Entertainment

**Apply**: https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/London-Royalty-Analyst-W12-7FA/1377067257/?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

Join the Contributor Royalty Accounting team at BBC Studios and play a key role in ensuring royalty accounting and reporting obligations are met accurately and on time. As a Royalty Analyst, you'll support the calculation, analysis, and reporting of royalties for contributors including writers, performers, and on-screen talent, helping maintain compliance with contractual and union agreements while supporting a global content distribution business.

Your key responsibilities and impact:

- Support month-end royalty processes, including preparing systems for accrual calculations and analysing results to ensure accuracy and compliance.

- Review and process monthly royalty payment files, ensuring accurate reporting and payments to contributors, agents, and other stakeholders.

- Interpret royalty accounting and reporting obligations and help ensure they are accurately reflected within royalty systems and processes.

- Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, managing queries effectively and delivering a high standard of customer service.

- Contribute to change and improvement initiatives by acting as a subject matter expert, supporting requirements gathering, testing activities, and process enhancement recommendations.

Essential criteria:

- Strong organisational and planning skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deliver to tight deadlines.

- Advanced Excel skills and a highly analytical approach, with the ability to interpret, manipulate, and summarise complex data sets.

- Excellent attention to detail and a methodical approach to identifying, investigating, and resolving data issues.

- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively under pressure within a fast-paced environment.

- Confidence building relationships and communicating with stakeholders at all levels, both internally and externally.

Desired but not required:

- Experience working in royalties, revenue share accounting, or a related financial reporting environment.

- Knowledge of UK talent union agreements and PACT Terms of Trade.

- Experience using royalty management systems, such as Alliant.

- An interest in and understanding of the evolving media and entertainment industry.

- Experience supporting system, process improvement, or change projects, including testing and implementation activities.

Benefits:

- A flexible 35-hour working week with 26 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) and the option to buy an extra five days.

- Defined pension (up to 10% employer contributions).

- Caring and parenting support, 24/7 remote GP access, life assurance, and accident benefit.

- BBC Studios is a world leader in operating sustainably both on and off screen.

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## Skills

### Required
- organisational skills
- planning skills
- Excel skills
- analytical approach
- problem-solving skills
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- royalties experience
- revenue share accounting experience
- UK talent union agreements knowledge
- PACT Terms of Trade knowledge
- Alliant experience
- media and entertainment industry understanding
- change project experience

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