Handle are recruiting for a Royalty Analyst for a leading Music/Entertainment company based in London. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of working within a royalties function at a more senior level, be driven and have a key interest in music and entertainment.
The successful Candidate will be responsible for:
- Work with the local Global Revenue and Royalties Optimization community worldwide with a primary focus on local royalty processing optimisation and harmonisation through facilitating the adoption, use and support of current and future global royalty standard solutions and processes.
- Through interaction with the territories, contribute to/maintain a global knowledge-base, including a complete inventory of royalty related systems and processes; contact information, structure of royalty area, statement solution/volumes, issues faced, anomalies to standard global practice, territory specific requirements or restrictions, language, strengths, weaknesses, training required.
- First level of operational issue management and analysis support for any issues or questions raised by the users through to resolution where appropriate. Use your business skills to facilitate issue resolution by collaborating with both local and global teams to arrive at the right approach. The role will also require training new business users, and leading demos to various business units.
- Work closely with key users, product owners, business analysts and IT development teams to understand, document and communicate the needs of the global business users to development teams to ensure that the current and future systems supporting local royalties continue to support global business requirements.
- Use strong global relationships to facilitate the scoping, discovery, design, and implantation of new business processes sometimes supported by the development of new applications.
- Provide inputs to change plans that mitigate risk and increase operational effectiveness of system and supporting processes rollouts.
- Understand the overall GRRO strategy to be able to contribute fully to the, ensuring the requirements and priorities of the local operating companies are fully represented.
- Work closely with Global teams from other threads (Finance, Repertoire etc) to ensure that the overall GRRO delivery needs are fully met from an end-to-end perspective.
You will be:
- The applicant will have proven royalty knowledge of both artist and copyright royalties from the Music Company perspective. Ideally a minimum of 3 years' experience in a royalty-related area, either as a royalty user or in project work relating to royalty systems required.
- Excellent stakeholder management experience and interpersonal skills to define and manage expectations, including local op-co staff at all levels, GRRO team members and IT.
- Self-motivated, able to work on own initiative and willing/able to travel when required.
- Applicants should be literate, numerate, analytical and have an aptitude to understand systems.
- Works and communicates effectively in a cross-geographic team environment - but is comfortable working independently as required.
- Ability to enhance existing business process and related systems.
- A calm problem solver working with changing requirements and priorities.
- Ability to mediate and resolve issues / reach consensus.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure to meet deadlines and resolved urgent incidents.
- Strong organisational skills.
- Intellectually curious, tenacious.
This is a fantastic role for someone with experience in royalties looking to take a step into a more senior position within a leading company in the Music Industry. Apply Now!
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