Royalty Assistant Full Time NEW

JOB BAND: B

CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent, Full-time

DEPARTMENT: BBC Studios COO Group

LOCATION: London – Television Centre

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £28,000 – £30,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

WE ARE BBC STUDIOS

A globally renowned media company borne of the BBC. We make and distribute the world’s most sought-after TV, audio and digital content.

Our ambition is to be the home of the most powerful, entertaining, and inspiring stories for people all around the world.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Step into the world where creative content meets numbers, rights and data. As a Royalty Assistant in our Music Reporting Team, you’ll help ensure BBC Studios meets its royalty and reporting obligations to PRS for Music, MCPS and PPL. Your work keeps our industry‑leading content flowing, supporting the teams who bring programmes to life while building your expertise at the heart of a global TV business.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

You’ll join a small, collaborative team that sits at the centre of how BBC Studios works with music collection societies. It’s a role that blends data and problem solving, well suited to someone who enjoys working with numbers offering exposure to the inner workings of a major TV company. With hands on experience across systems, contracts and music rights, you’ll gain the foundations for a diverse and rewarding career in royalties, finance or rights management.

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

• Prepare quarterly sales reports for submission to MCPS and PPL, ensuring data is accurate and complete.
• Validate invoices from music collection societies against internal data, identifying and resolving differences.
• Provide music‑related data to other Talent Accounting teams to support payment calculations for production companies.
• Update and maintain databases with sales, payment and rights data.
• Interpret music rights information, advise on productions outside blanket agreements, and respond to internal and external queries.
• Source cue sheets to enable royalty pay-aways.
• Support the Music Royalties Executive with timely reporting and analysis.

Essential Criteria

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Strong experience working with Excel and databases, with the ability to extract, interpret and summarise complex datasets.
• High numerical proficiency with a methodical approach to analysing financial or rights related information, consistently demonstrating strong attention to detail.
• Ability to manually prepare or support the preparation of royalty or financial statements, ensuring accuracy against fixed deadlines.
• Effective communicator able to liaise confidently with internal teams and external stakeholders, summarising information clearly.
• A self starter who is highly organised, proactive, eager to learn and able to work collaboratively within a small team.

Desired But Not Required

• Understanding of media rights, music rights or distribution agreements.
• Familiarity with royalty systems (Alliant) or analytical tools.
• Background or studies in accounting, finance or legal fields.
• Interest in developing a career in royalties, rights management or financial analysis.

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we’d love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

We appreciate your interest in this position and understand how important this opportunity is to you. Due to the high volume of interest, we may need to close the application period earlier than anticipated. This step is necessary to ensure we can provide a high level of attention and service to all applicants. Thank you for your understanding.

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Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Recruitment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

Redeployment

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.