Royalty Matching Assistant
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Full-time
Contract type: Regular
Company Description
Recently acquired by Believe, Sentric Music is in an exciting phase of significant growth into new markets. Sentric Music Group is a rapidly expanding music publishing company with 100+ employees based across our offices in Liverpool, London, Hamburg, Palma, New York and LA.
The company handles copyright and royalty administration for a large client base consisting of songwriters, record labels and music catalogue owners. Our industry-challenging platform is transforming the traditional models for royalty collection and our client base is consistently growing.
Believe is above all a passion for music, tech, and digital marketing, shared by over 1,900 talented people in more than 50 countries. It is a visionary and entrepreneurial spirit that drives us and makes us a world leader in the digital distribution of music.
Believe is a tribe of experts who successfully meet the challenges of the transformation of our music industry every day. It’s an adventure, a human adventure, and one that is propitious and stimulating for all of us.
Finally, Believe is a story that began in 2005 and that we must continue to narrate, now, and with you. Believe’s mission is to develop labels and artists in the most suitable way, at each stage of their career and development, in all local markets around the world, with respect, expertise, fairness and transparency.
Job Description
Reporting to: Royalty Processing Manager, Head of Royalties
Department Objectives:
The Royalty Team performs a key role in the Music Publishing cycle, ensuring accurate and timely payment of client’s royalties. Our aim is to provide a first class experience to our clients by:
- Efficiently Processing Incoming Statements.
- Accurately Matching Income.
- Accelerate Client Payments.
- Enhance Data Quality.
- Constantly looking to improve and evolve processes.
Job Summary
The royalty matching assistant will be responsible for supporting the Royalties team with a focus on ensuring accurate matching of income. They will interact with various departments internally to maximise the accuracy of all royalty matching and enhance the quality of song data.
Job Description
Royalty Matching Administration:
- Daily review of unmatched income, ensuring full matching of all received income.
- Weekly reporting of identified matches.
- Review, identify and resolve any share conflicts with Rights Team.
- Ensure accurate Society Work Numbers are recorded and correct on all versions of Songs and assist with data enrichment exercises.
- Provide Client Management with unmatched works list for managed clients.
- Assist wider team with additional Royalty tasks.
Additional Support:
- Assist with special projects initiated by the wider Royalty division, ensuring a qualitative and timely resolution of assigned project tasks.
- Assist the Royalty Team during key points throughout Sentric Music’s royalty distribution cycles.
- Assist Royalty team with ad hoc duties to cover holiday periods etc.
Qualifications
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Keen attention to detail, accuracy and detail-driven
- Demonstrable, prioritisation, organisation and deadline management skills required
- High level of numeracy
- Basic excel skills are preferred
- Basic understanding of the music publishing industry is preferable
- Positive approach to problem solving
- Enthusiasm for working with artists and business partners at all levels
- Collaborative approach to outcomes
- Ability to maintain a professional manner when handling song disputes and duplicate claims
- Persistent drive to complete tasks in an accurate and timely manner.
- Previous admin experience is advantageous
- Knowledge of music publishing industry either through education or previous work experience is preferable
- Must have the right to work in the UK, otherwise, the application will not be considered.
Additional Information
SET THE TONE WITH US
We have two hearts at Believe – our People and our Artists.
We believe in THE POWER OF OUR PEOPLE, who grow every day to develop their potential… We aim to provide our employees with the best environment to thrive.
ROCK THE JOB
- Hybrid working (3 days in the office)
- Private Health Care
- Pension plan
- 25 days annual leave, + 1 day for your birthday
- Life assurance and long-term disability cover
- Access a digital mental health and well-being platform
- Tailor-made training and coaching program
- Enhanced sickness pay and maternity/paternity cover
SING IN HARMONY
Ambassador program: an employee volunteering initiative dedicated to all employees interested in having a positive impact on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), wellbeing and the planet.
We are committed to having a workforce that is representative of the community it serves at all levels of the organisation. We, therefore, welcome applications from all backgrounds and all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion and sexual orientation.
