Royalty Reporting Manager

Royalty Reporting Manager

Directors UK is the professional association of UK screen directors. It is a membership organisation representing the creative, economic and contractual interests of over 8,000 members – the majority of working TV and film directors in the UK. Directors UK negotiates rights deals and collects and distributes royalties to its members. It also campaigns and lobbies on its members’ behalf and provides a range of services including legal advice, events and career development. Directors UK works closely with fellow organisations around the world to represent directors’ rights and concerns, promotes excellence in the craft of direction and champions change to the current landscape to create an equal opportunity industry for all.   

Job role and duties:

As a key member of the Distribution Team, this role will assist in the distribution of royalty payments to members, ensuring maximum accuracy and efficiency. This role will manage the reporting arrangements between Directors UK and broadcasters and producers to ensure usage reports are accurate, complete and delivered on time. The role will prepare the usage reports for allocation, provide analysis to inform the Directors UK distribution policy or support other stakeholders. With a continuous improvement mindset, this role will consider alternative tools or ways of improving data quality, streamline processes and keep up to date with industry trends to identify gaps in reporting and track down non-compliant companies. This role will also assist in issuing payments to members and dealing with members' queries relating to their payments or the distribution schemes in a professional and timely manner.  

Key Responsibilities include the following:  

• Manage the relationship with existing and new third-party companies to ensure that current and future usage reporting meets Directors UK’s requirements, and proactively work with these organisations to improve the standard of reporting. 
• Analyse and prepare usage reports for processing, ensuring compliance with Directors UK distribution rules.  
• Allocate and process payments received from UK broadcasters and foreign collecting societies and arrange distribution to Directors UK members and right-holders. 
• Ensure high levels of data governance and integrity, accuracy, identifying data anomalies and reporting these appropriately with recommended solutions 
• Help lead the identification and implementation of dashboarding solutions for areas of regular analysis and suggest tools or data to optimise general workflows, cleanse and allow greater flexibility in interpreting and utilising data 
• Develop streamlined processes for the receipt, handling and formatting of user reporting 
• Ensure that all processes are well documented and catalogued 
• Identify opportunities for improving data and business processes, communicating these effectively and developing potential solutions 
• Manage members’ queries effectively including those regarding reporting, ensuring all queries are responded to promptly and professionally  
• Horizon scanning industry trends to identify changes impacting distribution for our members – for example gaps in reporting (i.e. new channels or platforms) or finding non-compliant companies and escalate appropriately 
• Support any ad hoc data cleaning projects as and when required 
• Ensure practices for data handling remain at highest standard and in accordance to GDPR. 

Personal specification 

Applicants should have the following qualities 

Essential Skills and Experience 

Personal attributes/behaviours: 

• Ability to interpret and report on complex data sets
• Excellent attention to detail - able to spot anomalies and identify trends 
• Well-organised, proactive and flexible in your approach to your work 
• Able to work to deadlines and cope with periodic increases in workload 
• Able to collaborate across teams and work independently  
• Ability to identify innovative solutions to complex problems  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 
• Comfortable with managing key stakeholder relationships and proactively chasing missing reporting 

Technical:  

• Proficient in Excel, Microsoft Office, Outlook, Teams, Zoom; 
• Experience with handling, analysing and matching large volumes of data 
• Experience with the testing and implementation of software development delivery 

Knowledge:  

• Experience of working in a collective management organisation, broadcaster, producer or similar organisation; 
• Experience with royalties and/or distribution of film and television 
• Experience with industry data sources such as BARB / TechEdge or similar; 
• High degree of discretion, an awareness of handling confidential data, including some knowledge of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). 

Desirable Skills and Experience: 

Knowledge of and interest in Film & Television and the role of the director. 

Previous experience with BI platforms like Tableau or Power BI 

Terms of Employment

Reporting to:  Director of Distribution 

Salary:  £40,000 

Hours: 9.30am - 5.30pm 

Work Days: Monday - Friday 

Location: We support a flexible, hybrid working approach with an expectation of 50% of working time in our office, and 50% working remotely. Our Directors UK office is at 4th Floor, 22 Stukeley Street, London WC2B 5LR. 

Contract: Full Time permanent  

Benefits:

• Holidays: 25 days per year (plus all public and bank holidays) pro rata
• Company Pension Scheme opt in entitlement  
• Company Cycle to work Scheme 
• Company Perkbox discounts membership 
• Access to online screenings  
• Annual Health Check 
• Life Insurance 

Directors UK is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.  

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.  

This appointment is subject to satisfactory references and completion of a 3-month probationary period. 

To apply please send: via the button below

• a personal statement as to why you consider yourself suited to this role (maximum 500 words) and 
• your CV.

Applications closing date: Monday 11th March.

Interviews are due to take place:  Expected to be weeks commencing 11th / 18th March  (please let us know of any access arrangements that may be necessary) .

Please note that only candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted. 

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