Senior Analyst

About Y Royalties

Y Royalties was established in 2023 by Colin Young, Ben Marlow and Gary Groutage. Offering services in Royalties Data, Rights Management, Audit and Valuations.

Y Royalties started out as the Royalties division at Award Winning Accounts Firm, CC Young & Co, which celebrates its 27^th Year in the Music Industry this year.

Having invested heavily in our data abilities, our market leading data warehouse forms the core of Y Royalties; enabling us to research trends and patterns in streaming behaviour, intrinsically investigate anomalies across all royalty collections – adding value to our clients’ revenue streams and ensuring optimal remuneration.

Who you are

What We’re Looking For:

• 5+ years in transaction services, corporate finance, or similar deal environment – Big 4, boutique M&A advisory, private equity, investment banking, or comparable background
• Excellent financial modelling skills – able to build robust, audit-ready models from scratch
• Strong financial due diligence experience – comfortable leading key DD, working capital, and cash flow analysis
• Report writing ability – can translate complex analysis into clear, client-ready deliverables
• Project management capability – highly organised, able to manage multiple workstreams and keep deals on track
• Team management experience – comfortable delegating, reviewing work, and developing junior staff
• Self-sufficient and solutions-oriented – we need someone who takes ownership and doesn’t require constant direction

What you will do:

Reporting directly to one of our Directors, you’ll manage smaller transactions independently while supporting larger, more complex deals. You’ll supervise junior analysts and work alongside the data engineering team, sorting the progression of a growing team.

• Leading financial due diligence on music catalogue acquisitions and sales
• Managing data room processes, information requests, and deal trackers
• Conducting granular royalty analysis, creating insight
• Building and reviewing financial models for catalogue valuations
• Drafting investment-grade reports and client deliverables
• Supervising and mentoring junior team members on day-to-day tasks
• Liaising directly with clients, investors, and deal counterparties
• Contributing analytical insights to complex, multi-workstream transactions

What Makes Someone Successful Here?

You don’t need to know music royalties inside-out on day one – we’ll train you on the specifics.
What matters is that you’re technically strong, commercially astute, and can operate independently at pace.

Our best performers are:

• Analytical but pragmatic – you dig into the detail but don’t lose sight of what matters to the client.
• Comfortable with ambiguity – catalogue deals can be messy; your role is to bring clarity to our clients.
• Tech-savvy – we use bespoke tools and expect people to embrace data-driven approaches.
• Collaborative – you’ll work across the business and need to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Desirable:

• Formal accounting qualification (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
• Music industry or media/entertainment sector experience
• Exposure to royalty economics, IP valuation, or recurring revenue business models
• Familiarity with data analytics tools and structured data environments
• Experience preparing Q of E analysis for lending purposes

Equal Opportunities

Y Royalties Ltd is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all staff and job applicants. We aim to create a working environment in which all individuals are able to make best use of their skills, free from discrimination, and in which all decisions are based on merit.