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POSITION: Royalty Analyst

About SongVest
SongVest is on a mission to democratize music investing. SongVest is the first music marketplace to offer fans and investors the ability to purchase SongShares® from their favorite songs and artists. SongShares are the first Regulation A+ SEC-qualified offering that allows fractional ownership of music royalties, opening the alternative asset class to the general public.

Position Description
The Royalty Analyst primary responsibility is processing, gathering, reviewing, analyzing, and presenting royalty data in an organized manner for potential catalog sales. They will communicate internally with the CEO and Sales Managers to ensure all royalty data reports are received, represent the company when speaking to publishers, distributors, PROs, and other third parties when processing transactions, and work with clients to address specific royalty questions. Candidates should have at least 3 years of experience with music royalties. They should have an eye for detail, along with the ability to identify data trends and anomalies

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
-Lead the processdetailed royalty statements for viability of a sale on specific songs, income streams or entire catalogs
- Using SongVest proprietary system, upload data and run financial analysis of a potentialseller’s royalty statements
- Create proposals with financial overview, royalty estimates and list of specific assets tobe sold
- Create and upload analyses to company website
- Review statements to ensure the recipient for all royalties, identifying any unrecouped balances, 3rd party advances, or management/publisher fees
- Assist Operations to maintain legal contracts, paperwork, templates and documentsneeded for the completion of royalty Letters of Direction or Assignments
- Correspond professionally and timely with sellers and royalty payers as needed to confirm details
- Maintain records and files of royalty statements, including seller’s detailed contact and tax information
- Work with CFO on quarterly accounting of royalty disbursements to SongVest investors
- Maintains knowledge of emerging technologies and trends in music royalties
- Identifies trends and insights, and optimizes processes to streamline and bring consistency to the analysis function
- In the future, leads Royalty department staff by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees

Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Statistics, Data Science, or similar field
- 5+ years of work experience (3 years related to music royalties preferred)
- Must understand the different streams of royalty revenue for music creators
-  Possess excellent analytical and mathematical skills
- Excellent knowledge of data analysis and forecasting methods, and financial trend analysis
- Have advanced Excel skills for running reports
- Experience with CRM tools like Zoho (or comparable)
- Ability to prioritize independently and meet deadlines

Preferred qualifications:
- Knowledge and experience with valuating catalogs for sale
- Experience reading and understanding music contracts for publishing, producer agreements, etc
- Experience with accounting for quarterly royalties and payments

Contractor status, part-time, hourly, remote

20 hours per week estimated to begin, with opportunity for more

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