Royalty Director

Citrin Cooperman is seeking a remote Royalty Director for any of our offices.

About Citrin Cooperman

Citrin Cooperman is one of the nation’s largest professional services firms. Citrin Cooperman & Company, LLP, a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services and Citrin Cooperman Advisors LLC which provides business advisory and non-attest services, operate as an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA’s Code of Professional Conduct and applicable laws, regulations, and professional standards. Clients are in all business sectors and leverage a complete menu of service offerings. The entities include more than 200 partners and over 1500 employees across the U.S. For more information, please visit citrincooperman.com and be sure to follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

Responsibilities, but not limited to:

• Work closely with Partners and professional staff on catalog valuations, royalty audits of music companies (e.g. record labels and music publishers) and other licensees of intellectual property on behalf of the Firm’s clients.
• Manage and responsible for all aspects of engagements: planning, supervision, review, report writing.
• Extensive Partner and client contact.
• Experienced in Financial modeling.
• Train staff in music royalty issues and royalty accounting methodologies.
• Analyze and/or supervise large datasets using Excel (possibly Access/SQL)
• Review, interpret and apply contract terms to royalty data.
• Supervise preparation and/or prepare workpaper, claim schedules and reports.
• Scheduling and other supervisory responsibilities for this multifaceted practice group.
• Plan, coordinate and supervise fieldwork conducted remotely or on-site (travel may occasionally be required.
• Comfortably interact with clients through written and spoken communications.
• Manage ad-hoc requests internal or external, as well as assisting in various types of research
• Represent the firm at music industry events.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Expert in MS Excel—pivot tables, look-ups, etc. (MS Access and/or SQL database querying skills would be a plus)
• 8 years of music industry royalty experience
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral.
• Work well with employees, clients, and licensees.
• Ability to multi-task
• Detail-oriented

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.