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Director – Royalty Income
Join BMG’s team as the Director – Royalty Income, where you will lead income receipts for UK and our Sub publishing territories, to ensure complete royalty collections across all business functions, namely: Recorded music rights, Neighbouring rights and Publishing.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the Royalty Income team for Recorded Music, Neighbouring Rights, Publishing and Sub-publishing.
- Manage the accurate and timely processing of royalty statements from multiple sources.
- Liaise with Finance teams to ensure invoicing activities are carried out as required and to deadlines.
- Identify areas where revenue has not been received as expected and act accordingly to track and chase.
- Maintain and develop the relationship with Distributors, Sub-Publishers and other income sources to ensure that receipts are processed accurately within the SLA.
- Work closely with key departments at BMG specifically Finance, Legal and Supply Chain.
- Spearhead activity to automate processes where appropriate and to drive efficiency within the team
- Support various and ad hoc projects as required.
Your Profile
- Advanced understanding of royalty statements and core royalty functions, ideally in a music environment.
- Previous experience in a royalty accounting and distribution environment.
- Strong analytic and problem-solving skills.
- Advance Excel skills.
- Experience with tracking and collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence.
- Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
- Passion for record labels & music rights administration.
- Have an exceptional attention for detail.
- Ability to prioritise and effectively follow through under pressure and/or tight deadlines.
It’s a Plus:
- if you also have experience handling, enriching and manipulating large data files in excess of a million records (Excel Power Query, Python etc.).
Now, what’s in it for you?
- 25 days pro-rated annual leave, plus 3 days between Christmas & New
- Year and an extra day for your birthday!
- Flexible working opportunities.
- Subsidised gym membership.
- Private Health Insurance.
- Competitive pension scheme.
- All parents, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, will receive 6 months of fully paid parental leave.
- Annual gig allowance.
- Artist showcases.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Season Ticket Loan
- Workplace Nursery Scheme
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme.
- Give As You Earn Scheme .
- A fun and sociable office environment.
Are you interested?
Follow the link to apply!
As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we are dedicated to ensuring that candidates with disabilities are given a fair opportunity to demonstrate their abilities. Therefore, we guarantee an interview to applicants with disabilities who meet the essential criteria for the role.
Please note – there may be exceptional circumstances where the volume of applicants means we cannot interview all eligible candidates.
If you have any questions about the Guaranteed Interview Scheme or would like to confirm your eligibility, please reach out to us at career.uk@bmg.com
BMG – est. 2008 – is the world’s fourth-biggest music company, the first new global player in the music business of the streaming age, and a record label and music publisher in one. Named in 2020 one of the world’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company, BMG’s pitch is unique – a relentless focus on fairness and transparency and service to its artist and songwriter clients. BMG’s 20 offices across 12 core music markets now represent over three million songs and recordings, including many of the most renowned and successful catalogs in popular music history.
BMG’s fresh approach includes production music, films, books, artist management, merchandise, neighboring rights, and live as well as music publishing and recordings off the same service platform.
BMG is owned by international media, services and education company Bertelsmann, whose other content businesses include the broadcaster RTL Group, the trade book publisher Penguin Random House and the magazine publisher Gruner + Jahr.
With its multi-platform perspective, integrated technology platform and commitment to help artists maximize their income, BMG aims to be the best company in music to do business with. www.bmg.com
BMG is committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment. All job applicants will receive equal treatment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.
