Global Royalties Manager

Overview

Concord is the world’s leading independent music company. The Company supports more than 125,000 artists and songwriters whose works are licensed, marketed, and performed globally. Concord's growing catalog of 1.3 million songs, compositions, sound recordings, films, plays, and musicals is one of the most impactful and culturally relevant collections of creative rights in history.

Concord is headquartered in Nashville with additional offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, Berlin, Melbourne, and Miami.

As the Global Royalties Manager, you'll be responsible for overseeing the administration and processing of royalty statements, including creating statement headers, loading electronic files, and mapping titles to songs in our publishing database. You will track and report on inbound royalties workflow and ensure delivery standards and metrics are being met by the Global Royalties team.

Responsibilities

Core Responsibilities:

• Provide qualitative and quantitative management reporting on the ingestion and successful processing of all inbound royalties statements and distributions into Concord’s publishing royalties system.
• Take a leading role in monitoring, refining and updating departmental workflow monitoring software, currently surfaced in Atlassian Jira.
• Manage the inbound function of the Global Royalties department, overseeing the team and assisting with problem resolution.
• Assist with the loading and matching of royalty statements to appropriate works in the iMaestro publishing database using our matching software.
• General Royalty problem research & resolution, including researching data provided in source files and providing proposals to improve/enhance data enrichment.
• Utilize tools (Excel, Command Prompt, Pivot Tables, etc.) to analyze metadata in the royalty system and provide feedback on how to harmonize and refine at a macro level.
• Research, track, improve and maintain the processing of various high priority royalty sources which require special handling outside of the normal process.
• Utilize tools such as Power BI and Alteryx to help streamline processing and reporting.
• Review and match income out of suspense accounts. Report on income in suspense for audits or tracking purposes.
• Assist with reviewing team tasks and providing required training.
• Assist in resolving internal inquiries received from various departments within Concord.
• Oversee the quarterly distribution of payment reporting and assist with reporting updates. Post financial transactions in iMaestro as required to handle adjustments, payment requests and client updates.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

What you’ll need:

• High School Degree required; some college course work preferred.
• Previous experience working in a royalty department and familiarity with Vistex iMaestro strongly preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years’ publishing experience required.
• Previous experience in supervising and leading staff.
• Highly organized and detail oriented.
• Excellent quantitative and mathematical skills.
• Strong data entry skills with high degree of accuracy.
• Proficient using various software/applications and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook). 

*This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days minimum on-site.

At Concord, we offer comprehensive medical and wellness benefits, generous time off, parental leave, charity match, paid time off for volunteering, and other fun company perks. We have beautiful new offices and a culture committed to supporting everyone’s growth and development.

Concord is an equal opportunity employer. We employ, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. We believe that diversity, inclusion and equity is paramount for the creation of music, theater and film that celebrates and empowers all cultures.