UK Royalty Analyst
Job Description
At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:
- Curiosity: We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future.
- Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.
- Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.
WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters who fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.
Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.
Warner Chappell Music (WCM) is the music publishing division of Warner Music Group. We are interested in those who can join and contribute to our company’s values: Curiosity, Collaboration, and Commitment. We value input, ideas, and feedback from everyone at every level and the voices and contributions of every team member at WCM matter.
At WCM, we put the songwriter first, offering high-touch service to move the cultural dial across the globe. We want team members who have a service-oriented mindset and care about the collective work. We are searching for those who are comfortable thinking globally while leveraging local expertise.
A little bit about our team
As part of one of the biggest Deal signing Territories of Warner Chappell Music, the UK Admin team represents a significant share of WCM’s global business and is responsible for all elements of Publishing administration using the very latest technology of our bespoke internal administration system – TANGO, Warner Chappell’s leading cloud-based Deals & Royalties system. Our UK Royalty Department, together with our UK Copyright team, is part of our UK Administration division at Warner Chappell UK. The UK Royalty Department is responsible for timely and accurate accounting to our valued writers and clients, performing an important role in completing the final step of the end-to-end music value chain at Warner Chappell.
Your role
We’re looking for a dynamic self-starter to join our newly evolved UK Royalty Department. Reporting directly to the UK Royalty Manager, you will be integrated into a multi-department administration environment and be challenged to perform at a level that allows you to demonstrate your maximum skill set. You will provide day-to-day support for all UK Royalty functions, bringing a client-focused, can-do attitude to our UK Administration Department. You will be encouraged to think big and innovate as we enter an exciting new phase for WCM, where we put our writers first and strive to deliver the very best customer service.
Here you’ll get to
- Support all outbound Royalty Distributions to our UK signed clients, aiding with the Royalty Close process.
- Provide high-level customer service to our UK clients, acting as the point of contact for our writers to resolve client queries whilst responding in a courteous and timely manner.
- Register clients to our online WCM Client Portal, provide Portal demonstrations, maintain up to date contact details as required and support any client queries in using our portal and mobile app.
- Enter and upload data into our in-house Copyright and Royalty and Finance systems, including client payee account details (addresses/bank details/tax status) and financial transactions.
- Provide ad hoc reports and analysis as requested to support the work of the UK Royalty Manager, using BI/Tableau and additional reporting suites available.
- Analyse royalty statements and create earnings analysis reports for internal & external client needs.
- Work with our UK Copyright and Tracking teams to undertake catalogue audits and carry out internal income suspense reviews.
- Support the UK Royalty Manager with external client audits.
- Support the UK Administration Department on project-based work and other ad hoc duties as directed by management to meet KPI targets.
- Attend and participate in team and department meetings.
- Work interdepartmentally, collaborating with colleagues in different departments to streamline and improve overall administration processes, in particular Finance, Copyright, Income Tracking and Royalty Processing.
- Initiate new processes and contribute ideas toward system enhancements.
About you
- A music lover who values creation and is passionate about servicing our songwriters and rightsholders.
- An enthusiastic self-starter who is eager to learn and picks up new systems and processes easily.
- Detail-oriented with an analytical mind. You enjoy spending time analysing reports and data files.
- Competency and accuracy with data-entry and management, with an understanding of how that data impacts other processes.
- Fluency in manipulating, comparing, reconciling and analysing high volumes of data.
- Proficiency with Google suite, including Google mail, Google Sheets, and intermediate to advanced Excel skills, including experience with pivot tables, Power Query and other formulas and a willingness and interest to expand those skills where necessary
- Knowledge of royalty reporting formats utilised by collection societies and third-party licensees (CRD/CSV/DIF/TEXT).
- You have excellent organisational and time management skills and are comfortable managing competing priorities.
- You demonstrate personal drive and ambition.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, a natural ‘people person’ comfortable with conversing with clients politely and professionally.
- Confident in resolving external customer queries.
- High attention to detail.
- Excellent numeracy skills.
We’d love it if you also had
- Proven experience working in an analytical or data-driven role.
- Prior experience working for a music company, particularly in an administrative capacity (e.g. Copyright/Royalties/Income Tracking).
- An understanding of music publishing and the international collection society framework that supports the collection and distribution of royalties to songwriters.
- Hands-on experience of updating/maintaining copyright and royalty management systems.
- Experience working on Royalty Audits with both internal and external auditors.
- Experience using BI/Tableau.
- Experience using financial systems.
As the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, East West, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and several other of the world’s premier recording labels, Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. And our renowned publishing company, Warner Chappell Music, represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX. In addition, WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.
Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.
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