Income Tracking Analyst

This is a Full Time 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.

Job Title: Analyst, Income Tracking

A little bit about our team:

The Income Tracking Analyst role falls within the overall structure of the Administration Team and has a direct impact on our songwriters through maximizing revenue from all revenue streams. The role will liaise with all areas of our business and work closely with our Finance, Royalty, and Copyright teams. You will have the opportunity to work internationally with affiliates, licensees, and collection societies. This department is vital to the service Warner Chappell provides to its clients: the songwriters.

Your role:

In this role, you will be responsible for the forensic analysis of income received against income expectations across all major revenue streams and instigate back-claims, adjustments, and supplemental payments where required. You will enjoy the opportunity to provide input into the creation of reports that support Income Tracking as well as the opportunity to collaborate with internal departments to create and improve processes that can easily adapt to the constantly evolving nature of music licensing. If you love music and have a mind for business, this could be the position for you!

Here you'll get to:

• Work as an integrated member of a future-facing administration team.
• Evolve ways of working to take our income tracking to the next level.
• Identify and make claims for shortfalls in income.
• Provide the business with regular forecasts/updates by income providers (society/DSP/affiliate/third party).
• Monitor accurate deal level revenue across all income streams.
• Ensure affiliate income queries relating to domestic income are resolved.
• Support the Admin team on projects including ad hoc forecasts and income analysis.
• Work closely with the US Royalty and Copyright teams to both resolve and proactively prevent problems arising with the collection of income.

About you:

• You have skills to analyze, extract & manipulate data from high volume data files.
• You have advanced Excel capabilities including Power Pivot & advanced formulae.
• You have a solid understanding of mechanical licensing and copyright registration.
• You are passionate about music and enjoy working with spreadsheets.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• The ability to manage multiple projects at once and hit time-sensitive deadlines.
• The ability to join dots, think laterally, and understand complex relationships.