Royalty Accountant, Y Royalties

Department: Third-Party Royalty Accounting

About Y Royalties

Y Royalties is a data-led and innovative workplace with a growing presence in the music rights space. We sit at the crossroads of music, data and finance — helping artists, labels, publishers and investors gain clarity, control and value across the entire music rights journey, from rights management and royalty auditing to accounting and transaction advisory.

Y Royalties was established in 2023 by Colin Young, Ben Marlow and Gary Groutage. We grew out of the royalties division at award-winning accountancy firm CC Young & Co, which marks nearly 30 years in the music industry this year.

Our 2020 investment in data infrastructure now sits at the heart of every service — analysing royalties at the most granular level to surface trends, anomalies and opportunities, and to drive our catalogue valuations and due diligence.

The Role

You will be responsible for the delivery of timely and accurate Monthly, Quarterly and Semi-Annual third-party royalty statements across Publishing and Recorded clients — both manually and through our Curve royalty system — including client onboarding, contract set-up and related activities.

This is an opportunity to help lead and grow a fast-moving, highly specialised team — shaping its strategy, winning new mandates and building a market-leading practice.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Carry out royalty statement analysis and accounting for artist profit-share arrangements and management
  commission agreements, manually and through our Curve royalty system.
• Collate, edit, reconcile and load sales data to process in Curve for the preparation of third-party accounting.
• Liaise with internal accountants, rights management, the data team and clients to gather and disseminate the
  information and data required for day-to-day tasks, including income and statement tracking.
• Maintain and update our project management system (Monday.com) and information
  depository (Confluence).
• Provide budgets and quotes for new clients, and manage ongoing billing for existing clients based on
  accrued chargeable time.
• Take on other reasonable ad hoc duties from time to time, as instructed by the Royalties Manager and Head
  of Royalties

What We’re Looking For

• Working knowledge of recording and publishing companies and collection societies.
• The ability to interpret agreements.
• 3+ years working at a music-industry accounting firm or similar.
• Excellent Excel and MS Office skills.
• General knowledge of the Curve royalty system is an advantage.
• Experience of project management systems (e.g. Monday.com or Jira) is an advantage

Desirable

• A team player with a willingness to learn.
• Knowledge of music royalties, publishing and recording.
• The ability to multi-task.
• Highly organised.
• Effective use of time management.
• The ability to prioritise workload and work to deadlines.
• An effective communicator across different levels, internally and externally

What Makes Someone Successful
You will already know the music-royalties landscape well — both recording and publishing. What matters is that you bring the technical skill, an analytical mind, numerical accuracy and the drive to build a market-leading practice

Why Join Us

Be part of something that matters.
We’re small, agile and fast-growing, and every person here has a genuine opportunity to be part of something that matters — contributing ideas, building relationships and growing alongside the business.

You’ll have direct access to the founders and senior management team, with your work and your voice contributing to the firm’s strategy, commercial growth and reputation in the market.

Equal Opportunities

Y Royalties Ltd is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all staff and job applicants. We aim to create a working environment in which every individual is able to make best use of their skills, free from discrimination, and in which all decisions are based on merit.

We champion a culture that’s welcoming, flexible and built on mutual respect. Teamwork, support and a genuine sense of belonging are what make us, us