Royalty Business Lead
Sony Music
New York, NYThis was removed by the employer on 8/3/2018 11:49:00 AM PST
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Full Time Job
The primary purpose of this role is to serve as an intermediary between Entertainment Services (ES) and SME/Label(s). The Royalty Business Lead is expected to manage the relationship with the label and handles the majority of label inquiries including prioritizing work, managing expectations, ensuring quality of deliverables and acting on feedback. The RBL is expected to work with ES to ensure overall quality and accuracy of ES deliverables, reporting of performance metrics and maintains accountability for the review and approval of all final deliverables. The diligence required to respond to inquiries may be conducted within the function or by collaborating with other ES functions, however, this function is accountable for ensuring an accepted resolution and communicating with the Business throughout resolution
Responsibilities
The RBL is responsible for:
• maintaining up to date working knowledge of the music label business, Royalty operations, audits and accounting,
• ensure consistency and commonality of service with other RBL’s,
• identifying and escalating changing business practices, and
• ensuring SME corporate objectives/standards are being adhered to.
The RBL manages the day to day relationship with the label including:
• main point of contact for all royalty related requests,
• prioritizing work and managing expectations,
• ensuring overall quality of deliverables,
• obtaining specific label information or approvals to ensure timely delivery of services,
• defining scope and expected results of project requests for ES service leads,
• set expectations and coordination across ES to deliver on customer expectations, and
• represent the Label on ES strategic planning initiatives.
The RBL works with the other groups within ES to:
• communicate business request that require expert research and analysis,
• clearly define requests including; scope, parameters and requested due date,
• ensure overall quality and accuracy of the deliverables,
• provide management and development of RBL second tier support,
• be a conduit for communication and messages as agreed across ES/SME,
• Conduct final approval of Royalty Statements prior to submission, and
• Conduct quality reviews and ensure accuracy of ES deliverables.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in related experience.
• Degree in Business Administration, Accounting or Finance preferred.
• Advanced degree a plus.
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience working in a royalty related industry & fully conversant with royalty operations
• Label Business Affairs experience
• Label Finance experience
• Other royalty (including non music industry) experience
• Prior experience in a ‘business partner’ role a strong plus
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to interact well with all levels within the organization.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Experience with computer systems including SAP; Microsoft Suite and other proprietary systems.