Global Income Tracking Analyst – Warner Chappell Music – London

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.

We remain committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. We know it fosters a culture where you can truly belong, contribute, and grow. We encourage applications from people of any age, gender identity, sex or sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, disability, and any other protected characteristic or identity.

Warner Chappell Music (WCM) is the music publishing division of Warner Music Group. We are interested in those who can join and contribute to 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.

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 by ensuring accurate and on-time remuneration. The role will liaise with all areas of our business and work closely with our Finance, Royalty, Copyright, Global Analytics and Creative/Sync teams; and provides the opportunity to work internationally with affiliates, licensees and collection societies.

Your role: As the Income Tracking Analyst, you will support all tracking activities for major revenue sources such as Performance, Mechanical, Sync, Live, Audiovisual and Digital on a global scale. In this newly created role, you will have the opportunity to define the role, advance how we manage our global and local income tracking activities, and collaborate with global departments to create and improve processes that can easily adapt to the constantly evolving nature of music licensing. 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 have the opportunity to provide input and influence the creation of reports that support Income Tracking, including exception & variance reporting, as required for the local offices.

Here you’ll get to:

• Conduct income tracking analysis for major revenue sources and support ad hoc requests from local offices.
• 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 based on analysis of incoming statements.
• Provide Adhoc analysis for the business on income received from societies, DSPs, affiliates and third parties.
• Monitor accurate deal level expectations across all income streams.
• Liaise with counterparts across all affiliate offices, suppliers and sub-publishers to ensure income flows are in line with expectations & resolve any interruptions or discrepancies.
• Ensure affiliate income queries relating to domestic income are resolved.
• Regularly communicate with local CMOs.
• Support Head of Global Income Tracking on projects including ad hoc forecasts and income analysis.
• Collaborate with income tracking teams globally.
• You will work closely with local and global Royalty and Copyright teams to both resolve and proactively prevent against problems arising with the collection of income.
• Process and review unpaid and unmatched lists.

About you: Minimum of 2+ years’ experience preferably in a music publishing administration role (income tracking, copyright, royalties) at a Collection society or music publishing related companies such as DSP, labels or Film and TV. Experience working across all major revenue streams and working with CMOs and partners. A good understanding of copyright, royalties and sync licensing. Skills to analyse, extract & manipulate data from high volume data files. Experience in setting up internal analysis delivering reports tailored to the needs of the business. Excellent communicator with skills to build relationships with people internally and externally. Comprehensive knowledge of society licensing schemes and distribution policies. A forensic and detail-oriented approach to analysing data with a track record in delivering accurate results. High Proficiency in Excel including Power Pivot, Power Query and complex formulae.

We’d also like it if you had: Experience in tracking income for offline and online audiovisual usages. Experience working with SQL. Experience with analytical and visualisation tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx etc. Understanding of music publishing file formats such as CRDs, CWRs, Cue sheets and setlists.

About us: 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. 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 the 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.