Royalties Executive - London, United Kingdom - Bonnier Books
Description
Job title:
Royalties Executive
Reports to:
Head of Royalties
Location:
Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, Holborn, London
Working pattern:
Flexible home working up to three days per week
Department:
Royalties
Salary range:
£28,000 - £33,000 per annum
General Summary
We are currently recruiting a forward-thinking individual to assist in the development and running of the Royalties function within a fast-growing publishing industry leader.
This newly formed position is a great opportunity for someone looking for their next step within a busy Royalties department.
Essential job functions/responsibilities
- Support the Head of Royalties with the quarterly, semiannual and annual royalty statements being produced and checked in line with deadlines
- Check and approve contracts and amendments in Biblio (author/contributor contracts, royalty rates, reversions, deceased parties), on a daily basis
- Reconcile Third-Party rights income batches, on a weekly basis
- Supporting timely payment of author advances and processing these within Biblio
- Create, analyse and work from reports to ensure accurate royalty calculations
- Liaise with clients and agents regarding subrights payments and statement queries
- Become a key team member in a constantly changing industry, communicating with teams across multiple imprints and offices
- Assist on projects to help improve and grow the business
- Ad hoc duties as required
Qualifications and experience
- Knowledge of the publishing industry and understanding of royalty contract terms
- Experience within a royaltiesfocused position and working with Biblio (essential)
- Forwardthinking and focused on continual improvement
- Friendly, approachable and able to remain calm under pressure
- Strong numerical skills and competent in Excel
- Must be comfortable taking phone calls and be able to build positive ongoing relationships with our valued authors, agents and clients
- Understanding complex royalty structures such as joint ventures
Working with a team of passionate, talented people
Internal learning and development programmes
Career Development opportunities
Fun social events
At Bonnier Books UK, we believe that every book matters. We love to publish stories and content that open our eyes to new perspectives and bring us closer together.
We offer a nurturing home for our authors, illustrators and brand partners, publishing bestselling books for readers and listeners everywhere.
We know that fantastic stories can come from anywhere and our purpose is to bring them to as wide an audience as possible, a simple ethos that has led to us becoming one of the country's leading publishers.
The offspring of Bonnier Books, a family-owned top-15 world publisher headquartered in Sweden, we are inspired by a rich literary heritage but not bound by convention.
We think in generations rather than quarters, and strive always to operate in an open, curious way that contributes to the future of the planet and its people.
As a climate-neutral publisher we are an active participant in the Science Based Target initiative, committed to a strategy to limit global warming to 1.5 °C.
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