Neighbouring Rights Business Analyst – Kings Cross, London

Music is Universal. It’s the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the world’s leading music company. From A&R to finance, legal to digital, sales to marketing, Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, age, marital status, background, pregnancy, or caring responsibilities. We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and other forms of neurocognitive variation. We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment, workplaces, and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles.

The Role

This role sits at the heart of the Global Rights & Society Relations team, combining neighbouring rights expertise with modern analytics to support the department’s core objective of maximising revenue for UMG’s labels and artists. The Neighbouring Rights Business Analyst will deliver high-quality analysis, insights and recommendations across revenue assurance, performance tracking and business planning. The role will focus on identifying revenue opportunities through the interrogation of complex datasets, including revenue statements and usage data, and translating findings into clear, actionable outcomes for the business.

Alongside this, the role will take ownership of key data structures and reporting solutions, ensuring data is accurate, accessible and effectively used across the team. The individual will work closely with Finance, Operations, Business Development and other stakeholders, acting as a trusted partner in supporting decision-making, forecasting and strategic initiatives. This is an opportunity for a highly motivated and analytical individual to play a key role in a developing and fast-moving area of the business.

Key duties and responsibilities

• Analysis, insights and revenue optimisation
• Analyse neighbouring rights revenue statements alongside usage and airplay data to identify trends, discrepancies and opportunities for revenue recovery.
• Investigate performance questions, identifying what has changed and why, and clearly communicate findings and recommended actions.
• Support and enhance the neighbouring rights revenue assurance programme, including identification and tracking of missing revenues across labels and performers.
• Deliver structured analysis to support forecasting, benchmarking and performance evaluation across territories, societies and catalogues.
• Provide analytical support for business development activities, including evaluation of prospective deals and new opportunities.
• Provide support for royalty processing and ongoing enhancement of data for both internal and external reporting.
• Data ownership and reporting
• In collaboration with Global Technology and other Business Analysts, design and maintain scalable data ecosystems (including BigQuery) that enable low-touch, reusable datasets and support cross-functional use across other UMG departments.
• Design, build and maintain dashboards, scorecards and recurring reports to support self-service analytics across the GRSR team.
• Translate business requirements into robust data models and reporting solutions.
• Ensure clear documentation of data definitions, methodologies and processes to support consistency and efficiency.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve data quality, automate processes and reduce manual reporting.
• Stakeholder partnership and communication
• Partner with Finance, Operations, Business Development and wider stakeholders to ensure insights are clearly understood and effectively applied.
• Translate complex data into clear, concise and visually compelling outputs tailored to different audiences.
• Support the preparation of materials for client reviews, business updates and territory engagements.
• Contribute to regular reporting cycles, business reviews and ad hoc analysis with clear takeaways and recommendations.
• Work with technical and data teams to identify and resolve data issues, providing clear evidence and proposed solutions.
• Data development and innovation
• Support the ongoing development of data capabilities within GRSR, contributing to improved analytical frameworks and reporting standards.
• Explore new datasets and analytical approaches to enhance understanding of neighbouring rights performance and market dynamics.
• Contribute to broader data initiatives, including collaboration with central data teams to leverage new tools and technologies.
• Where relevant, support research and analytical work that informs music performance insights and business development strategy.

Person specification

• Skills and experience
• Strong analytical capability, with the ability to translate business questions into structured analysis and actionable recommendations.
• Proven experience working with data in an analytics, finance, BI or similar environment (typically 3-5 years); experience in music royalties or Neighbouring Rights is advantageous.
• Proficiency in Excel (including data manipulation, pivot tables and modelling).
• Proficiency with SQL and data warehouse environments such as Google Big Query.
• Proficiency working with large datasets and building dashboards using tools such as Looker, Tableau, Domo or similar.
• Ability to validate data, identify anomalies and conduct root-cause analysis.
• Communication and stakeholder skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly and effectively.
• Ability to tailor outputs and messaging to different audiences, from technical teams to senior stakeholders.
• Confident working cross-functionally and building effective working relationships.
• Able to translate analysis into clear business insights and recommendations.
• Personal attributes
• Highly motivated, with strong drive, energy and enthusiasm for delivering high-quality work.
• Curious and proactive, with a desire to understand underlying drivers of performance.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
• Well organised, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
• A collaborative team player with a positive and flexible approach.

About UMG UK

We are Universal Music Group UK – the UK’s leading music-based entertainment company. We exist to shape culture through the power of artistry. We help UK artists produce, distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to inspire and entertain fans at home and around the world.

Bonus Tracks: Your Benefits

• Group Personal Pension Scheme (between 3% and 9%).
• Private Medical Insurance.
• 25 paid days of annual leave.
• Interest Free Season Ticket Loan.
• Holiday Purchase scheme.
• Dental and Travel Insurance options.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Salary Sacrifice Cars.
• Subsidised Gym Membership.
• Employee Discounts (Reward Gateway).

Just So You Know... The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However, the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholder's specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore, the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent, definitive, and exhaustive statement.