Royalty Manager – Platoon

The people here at Apple don’t just create products — they create the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries. It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts.

Now part of Apple, Platoon is an Artist Services company that provides tools and services to the most exceptional, emerging music talent. The company is best known for helping to launch the careers of artists such as Jorja Smith, Billie Eilish, Mr Eazi and Stefflon Don.

Apple Services Finance is seeking a Royalty Manager to join the finance team managing Platoon. This is an exceptional opportunity to join a high-performing team and make a meaningful contribution to an ambitious and growing business.

Description

In this role, you will become the subject matter expert in how our royalty and payment systems work, understanding the logic and calculations that they support. You will use your system knowledge to find solutions to support business requirements, document those solutions, and implement them. This is a hands-on role. You should be as comfortable rolling up your sleeves in the detail as you are driving decisions at a senior level. Thoroughness and accuracy are critical to succeeding in this role. The royalty operations team interfaces with many different functions, so you will need to build positive relationships and credibility across the organization including with Business, Legal, Finance, IS&T, SAP and Engineering teams. Other teams should view you as the expert in royalty processes and systems. You will work on several projects in parallel so you will need strong time management and the ability to quickly switch between tasks. At Apple, we highly value innovation, you will be encouraged to make the team better by improving the team's tools and processes.

Responsibilities

Managing the royalty operations team and setting SMART goals and objectives for the year that align with Platoons business objectives Owning the entire end to end royalty process - new revenue source creation, contract & rate set-up, track mapping, revenue ingestion, reconciliations, calculations, recoupments, SAP delivery and dispute resolution with full accountability for accuracy and timeliness at every stage Leading system integration initiatives including bringing new royalty flows into SAP and connecting upstream and downstream systems Improving royalty system setups including automated contract & rate ingestion, DSP revenue accruals, artist cost recognition and leadership reporting Scoping and implementing new payment flows including publishing payments Preparing and supporting manual adjustment postings including investigating VAT & WHT discrepancies, correcting revenue and royalty entries, and ensuring adjustments are accurately reflected and documented Supporting annual external audits with operational walkthroughs and calculation back-ups

Minimum qualifications

7+ years of experience in a royalty operations role, prioritising and managing projects with accuracy and attention to detail Proven experience leading system integration projects Willingness to work in a hands-on, detail-intensive operational role Proven ability to own an end-to-end royalty process from contract setup through to revenue reconciliation Exceptional communication and presentation skills to both internal and external stakeholders Advanced knowledge and experience working in Excel (complex multi-tab workbooks, forecasting and scenario modelling) Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Highly organised with the ability to prioritise workload

Preferred qualifications

Hands on Experience with Curve or Vistex GTMS is highly desirable SAP experience in a finance or royalty context A detailed understanding of the music rights landscape Knowledge of SQL or Tableau Experience of working in a complex environment.