What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Royalties Analyst position at gamma.?
Description
Position Summary
The Senior Royalty Analyst is responsible for managing the end-to-end royalty accounting process, ensuring accurate calculation, analysis, and distribution of royalties to artists, labels, and partners. This role combines deep royalty expertise with strong technical and analytical skills, supporting complex deal structures across distribution, joint venture, and profit-share arrangements.
*****Candidate(s) must be located in gamma. registered states: CA, TN, GA, SC, NY, NJ, MA, PA*****
As a key member of the Accounting team, the Senior Royalty Analyst will oversee royalty data integrity within Curve and Oracle NetSuite, collaborate cross-functionally with A&R, Finance, Legal, and Operations, and identify opportunities to optimize and scale royalty processes.
Key Responsibilities
Qualifications
Position Summary
The Senior Royalty Analyst is responsible for managing the end-to-end royalty accounting process, ensuring accurate calculation, analysis, and distribution of royalties to artists, labels, and partners. This role combines deep royalty expertise with strong technical and analytical skills, supporting complex deal structures across distribution, joint venture, and profit-share arrangements.
*****Candidate(s) must be located in gamma. registered states: CA, TN, GA, SC, NY, NJ, MA, PA*****
As a key member of the Accounting team, the Senior Royalty Analyst will oversee royalty data integrity within Curve and Oracle NetSuite, collaborate cross-functionally with A&R, Finance, Legal, and Operations, and identify opportunities to optimize and scale royalty processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare and review monthly, quarterly, and semi-annual artist and label royalty statements across multiple deal types (distribution, joint venture, P&D, profit share, etc.)
- Read and interpret artist, label, and producer contracts, and accurately input deal terms (including royalty rates, recoupable costs, and participation splits) into the royalty system (Curve)
- Maintain accuracy and completeness of royalty data across ERP (NetSuite) and royalty systems
- Analyze revenue and cost data from DSPs, sub-distributors, and other third-party sources to ensure proper allocation by artist, product, and territory
- Support recoupment tracking for advances, marketing & promotion costs, and production expenses
- Perform monthly reconciliations between financial statements and royalty subsystems
- Collaborate and partner cross-functionally with A&R, Finance, Legal, and Operations to validate deal terms and resolve reporting issues
- Assist with royalty audits
- Recommend process improvements and automation initiatives to enhance accuracy, speed, and scalability
- Support the Director of Accounting and VP of Finance with ad hoc analyses and dashboards
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field
- 3–5 years of experience in royalty accounting, preferably within music, entertainment, or digital media
- Strong knowledge of royalty structures, contractual recoupment, and industry reporting standards
- Solid understanding of revenue recognition, recoupment, and artist participation models
- Proficiency with Excel (SUMIFS, INDEX-MATCH/XLOOKUP, pivot tables) and comfort with large data sets
- Self-starter with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a high-growth environment
- Excellent communication skills - comfortable working cross-functionally and explaining financial data to non-finance stakeholders
- Experience with ERP systems (NetSuite preferred) and royalty management software (Curve preferred)
- Familiarity with US and international royalty reporting standards
- Experience across multiple royalty deal types (distribution, JV, P&D, profit-share, admin)
- Process-oriented mindset with strong attention to detail
- Collaborative team player with a proactive and solutions-driven approach
- Excited by the intersection of creativity, data, and business