Coordinator, Royalties

Job Title: Royalty Coordinator
Department: Royalties, Statements & Tracking
Reporting To: Manager, Statement Operations
Location: London
Hybrid Working: 3 days in your local office
Full-time | Permanent

The Role

You will play a pivotal role in our newly restructured and growing Royalties team. Leveraging your strong problem-solving and numerical skills, you'll be responsible for managing "unhappy-path" royalty scenarios to ensure our clients are paid accurately and promptly. In addition, you will help maintain Kobalt’s reputation for best-in-class service by administering bespoke contractual obligations and contributing to the continuous improvement of our royalty processes.

Success in this role requires excellent organisational and prioritisation abilities, alongside a proven capacity to quickly adapt to new and exciting challenges. Working within a close-knit team, you’ll also provide analytical reporting to various stakeholders across the business.

Reporting to the Manager (Statement Operations), your day-to-day responsibilities will include owning the handling reversal-corrections, processing suspense royalties, working as a team to investigate and resolve “unhappy-path” royalties and supporting the automation of statement generation and delivery.

What You’ll Do

• Alongside the Manager, collaborate closely with the Copyright, Accounts, Client Services, Synch, and Tech teams to ensure accurate and timely royalty statement delivery to our publishing clients.
• Take full ownership of the "unhappy-path" royalty process, including suspense royalties and handling reversal/correction entries.
• Maintain and document best practices to support internal knowledge sharing and empower colleagues to resolve issues and respond to client queries effectively.
• Manage and deliver multiple regular reports, ensuring key stakeholders have access to accurate and up-to-date information.
• Administer and log all non-standard contractual obligations due at the time of statement delivery, ensuring they are implemented correctly.
• Support the team with additional tasks and responsibilities as needed.

What You’ll Bring

Preferred:

• Strong numeracy, analytical skills, and exceptional attention to detail and accuracy
• Proficient in Excel, with confidence working with large datasets, formulas, and pivot tables
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with experience engaging a wide range of stakeholders across varying levels of seniority and expertise
• Proven track record of outstanding organisation and prioritisation, especially when working under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and effectively manage multiple projects at once
• A naturally curious mindset with a demonstrated ability to quickly grasp and apply new concepts

Additional Skills That Could Add Value:

• Experience working within Music is preferable but not essential. You are curious to learn about publishing and royalty revenue streams
• Knowledge or interest in learning SQL
• Can-do attitude and ambitious
• Innovative solution-driven mindset with a keen desire to create, improve, and automate
• High level of attention to detail.

What Success Looks Like

By Month 3: You’ll understand our royalty and statementing systems and support resolution of routine exceptions
By Month 6: You’ll manage unhappy-path processes independently and handle key deliverables
By Year 1: You’ll proactively identify areas for improvement, suggest process changes, and support ongoing automation efforts.

Interview Process

• Introductory call with a member of our Recruitment Team
• Interviews with team and hiring manager
• Optional task or case study (role dependent)
• Final stage interview and Q&A
• Feedback at each stage

We aim to complete the full interview process from initial application to offer within three working weeks. While we do our best to meet this timeline, there may be occasional delays. If that happens, our Recruitment Team will keep you updated every step of the way.

Why Choose Us

At Kobalt, we’ve championed creators since 2000. Our technology and music services are built to make the industry more transparent, fair, and rewarding for artists, songwriters, and rights holders. We’re proud to work with some of the world’s most influential talents including Phoebe Bridgers, Sam Fender, Paul McCartney, Foo Fighters, Karol G, Young Thug, Kali Uchis, FINNEAS, and Andrew Watt as well as acclaimed writers like Simon Aldred (Rag’n’Bone Man, Liam Gallagher, Celeste) and Clarence Coffee Jr. (Dua Lipa, Lizzo, The Snuts).

We’re a company that thrives on creativity, collaboration, and progress. Our values: Music First, Transparent, Tech Powered, and Transformative. Shape how we work, build, and grow together. We are a community of people who care deeply about making a meaningful impact in music and technology.

Kobalt is an equal opportunity employer. We believe in equitable access to opportunities and are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and supportive workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. If you need any adjustments during the hiring process, please let us know we’re happy to help.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE

Applicants must be eligible to work in the United Kingdom. A full DBS check will be conducted on acceptance of the offer. Kobalt is an equal opportunity employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or any other status or characteristic protected by law.