Income Tracking Analyst Location wanted: APPLY HERE
Johannesburg, Gauteng
Our client in the music industry is looking for an excel guru to track royalty income.
Responsibilities
Providing support for the Finance & Royalty Administration team. The analyst will take part in all aspects of the department, providing leadership and assistance with existing functions and processes for established routines in royalty tracking and income recovery. Monitoring developments in market trends, with income sources and devising strategies to deal with unfamiliar or changing income streams. Training and taking responsibility of development of new staff members.
Responsibilities:
Income Recovery
This is the core function of the department. A strong rate of recovery is already established and the analyst is expected to help maintain if not surpass previous results, year on year.
Monitoring Income Streams
The nature of our business is constantly developing and the analyst would play a significant role in monitoring the changes in how our revenue is generated and helping to decide on the most efficient allocation of time and resources to best serve the needs of the company in terms of income recovery and client service.
Digital Landscape – Tracking Opportunities
The analyst would liaise with Global Tracking team, to raise awareness of market changes and recognise any problems that the company might need to address with regard to digital royalties.
Other duties:
Analysis and tracking of Income across all Income streams including Digital, Mechanical, Broadcast/Performance, Live and Cinema.
Implementing and monitoring tracking claims at Societies and liaising with sub-publishing network of offices.
Working alongside Finance and Administration departments to ensure procedures are aligned and data is shared in a timely manner to facilitate productive tracking and analysis.
Maintain various spreadsheets that chronicle data entry activity.
Collaborate with Licensing, Finance and Administration staff to increase efficiencies in maintaining and tracking charting, sales and license data.
Reviewing client and society song lists in comparison to internal systems.
Complete registration of Local copyrights with Societies/agencies and monitor progress.
Assessment and handling of all titles in Duplicate Claim or Dispute status at local societies.
Data clean-up of legacy local catalogues.
Suspense research and matching of company’s repertoire and liaising with Global affiliates.
Preparation and review of royalty reports and royalty statements.
Requirements
Tertiary education or degree level educated.
Working knowledge of copyright and / or royalty payment processes.
Advanced Excel skills mandatory.
Exceptionally organized, meticulous, and detail-oriented.
High proficiency of various computer applications such as MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and MS Outlook the ability to quickly learn programs that work with large volumes of data.
Experience with research & analysis and data manipulation techniques.
Ability to promote and implement new procedures and processes to improve efficiencies in royalty tracking and analysis.
Good understanding of music publishing payment collection and payment processes.
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