Royalty Assistant (Temp)

Downtown Music is a modern global music company committed to building a more equitable music industry. As the preferred partner for some of the world’s most beloved songwriters, storied music catalogs, and emerging artists at the forefront of pop culture, we offer bespoke distribution, publishing administration, creative marketing and finance solutions to entrepreneurial creators and their partners. Downtown Music is owned and operated by Downtown Music Holdings. 

Downtown Music Publishing is looking for a part-time Royalty Assistant (Temp) to join our royalty team for 6+ months. This individual will be focused on assisting the royalties team in processing both inbound royalty statements and outbound client royalty statements. Our team takes pride in accuracy and detail, but also in efficient collaboration with the other departments within Downtown’s Rights Management Operations.  

This hybrid position can be based out of our New York or Nashville office locations.

What you'll be doing: 

• Assist with the processing of incoming royalty statements including:
  • Locating and downloading statements
  • Filing and organizing statements
  • Importing statements
  • Matching statements
• Assist with the distribution of outbound royalty statements including:
  • QA data sets for distribution
  • Assist with balance review data preparation
  • Assist with deal meta data ingestion
  • Overall Airtable management - various
  • Inquiry management & ownership of quarterly checklist Airtable
  • Maintain quarterly metrics
• Assist in processing income in backlog and suspense
• Assist with ad-hoc projects for both processing & distributions

After 3 months you’ll have:

• Experience with a full quarter's royalty cycle, from payment to distribution
• Basic comprehension of how Downtown operates, collects, and distributes royalties 
• Exposure to and understanding of the detailed metadata received from various sources

You are / have:

• Passion for music, data, numbers and details
• Understanding of music publishing
• Beginner to intermediate understanding of Microsoft excel
• Beginner to intermediate understanding of Royalty Accounting
• Previous Music Maestro and/or Curve experience a plus

Why you want to work here: 

• Ample opportunities to work with leaders and employees across our business
• Work​ ​in​ ​a​ ​collaborative environment​ ​full​ ​of​​ mission driven, innovative, and passionate people
• Be part of an open, welcoming, and inclusive culture 

Downtown provides base salary ranges for all positions located in the United States at the time of posting. The pay rate for this position is $17/hr. 

Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to Downtown's values. We welcome and encourage all applicants of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives to apply.