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International Royalty Processing Manager

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 that 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 along 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.

Job Title: International Royalty Processing Manager

A little bit about our team:

The International Royalty Income Team sits within the Global Administration department of Warner Chappell Music, reporting to the Head of Global Rights & Roylaties. The team’s role of managing and reconciling the royalty processing of the European territories’ income is integral to the business. This involves working closely with the royalties, finance and copyright teams both in the UK and in other European offices (as well as third party sub-publishers) to ensure all income is processed and reconciled in a timely manner to meet our contractual obligations to our clients and our SOX requirements are met.

Your role:

We are looking for a highly organised, analytically minded manager to lead a team of four royalty analysts, to process all EMEIA royalty income into our Copyright and Royalty system, as well as coordinate Warner Chappell’s royalty runs globally. With a passion for people development, collaboration and innovation you will contribute to projects whilst ensuring the professional growth of your direct reports and smooth royalty processing. This role is an ideal next step for someone experienced in music publishing administration and well-practised in preparing and presenting income analysis.

Here you’ll get to:

• Own the end-to-end workflow of royalty processing, from receiving cash receipts from finance teams, processing the income into our system, performing SOX reconciliations through to initiating the royalty period closes. Ensuring that all processes are aligned with our SOX and audit controls

• Lead 4 Royalty Income Analysts, developing the team’s careers for them to become future experts and leaders at WCM.

• Guarantee that the data we receive from income providers is of the standard we require to accurately and sufficiently account to our songwriters.

• Review all affiliate income approved in our royalty system for EMEIA territories.

• Manage the review of deferred income.

• Ensure all pre-royalty run checks are completed by all interested parties.

• Provide instruction for the execution of royalty runs and communicate to the business when a royalty run has been completed, along with accompanying statistics.

• Collate, analyse and summarise suspense income data across EMEIA Territories.

• Assist affiliate offices in reducing their total suspense income values.

• Assess ways of working and provide innovative ideas of how the team can work more efficiently.

• Contribute to the implementation of system enhancements.

• Attend external meetings with CMOs, processing partners and 3rd parties as needed.

• Collate and maintain details of societies and sub publishers’ distribution dates and commission deductions.

• Analyse the income received and processed from our Sub Publishers.

• Support the Heads of Global Administration with reporting to senior management, strategic planning, goal setting and the execution of projects.

• Contribute to ongoing administration training initiatives. Ensuring all royalty processing training resources are up to date.

• Share industry news, updates and training with the team.

• Complete and delegate ad-hoc duties in line with the needs of the business

About you:

• You have a passion for professional development and an interest in leadership.

• You have an all-round understanding of music publishing, with expertise in administration and experience using copyright and royalty systems.

• You have brilliant interpersonal skills, are adaptable and are confident in leading a team.

• You love data, you have expert technical skills in data manipulation and are confident in completing analysis on high volumes of data.

• You are adept at data visualisation and are experienced with presenting analysis in a visual format to senior management.

• You have a high-level of numeracy.

• You are familiar with Tableau, BI reporting and Alteryx.

• You have advanced Excel skills, including Power Query, Power Pivot and advanced formulae.

• You are confident in completing reconciliations and undertaking variance analysis work.

• You have a detailed knowledge of the data file types routinely used to support both royalty ingestion (especially CRD) and a good working knowledge of other data file formats (e.g. CSV/DIF/FLAT/TXT/JSON and society specific formats.)

• You are well-versed in CMO practices, policies, society distribution rules and have experience relating to their licensing and distribution processes.

• You are familiar with the completion of tasks within audit criteria.

• You are a natural forward planner with exceptional organisational skills

• You enjoy multi-tasking and know how to employ effective time-management, prioritisation and planning techniques to complete projects to deadlines.

• You are a critical thinker with the ability to join dots and think laterally.

• You are self-motivated and results-focused with a proven ability to improve performance and process.

• You have communication skills, both written and oral.

• You are prepared to travel and work extended hours as required

• You collaborate and consult with peers to strengthen business practices and create better efficiencies across departments

We’d love it if you also had:

• Previous managerial experience, especially at a music publishing company or society.

• A background of working within finance.

• Additional language skill set advantageous.

As the home to Asylum, Atlantic, East West, Elektra, 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 catalogue 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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