International Royalty Processing Manager, APAC

Job Description
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.

WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.
Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.
*Job Title: International Royalty Processing Manager, APAC - Warner Chappell Music
A Little Bit About Our Team
Based in Malaysia, KL, the International Royalty Income Team sits within the Global Administration department of Warner Chappell Music, reporting to the SVP Global Rights and Royalties. The team's role of managing and reconciling the royalty processing of the Asia Pacific territories' income is integral to our business. This involves working closely with the royalties, finance, local business and copyright teams in other Asian offices (as well as third party processing partners) to ensure all income is processed and reconciled in a timely manner to meet our contractual obligations to our clients and ensuring our audit requirements are met.
Your Role
We are looking for a highly organised, analytically minded manager to lead a team of four royalty analysts, to process and service all Asian royalty income into our internal system, as well as coordinate Warner Chappell's royalty runs for the region. With a passion for people development, collaboration and innovation you will contribute to projects whilst ensuring the professional growth of your direct reports and smooth royalty processing. This role is an ideal next step for someone experienced in working with large data sets and well-practised in preparing and presenting income analysis.
Here You'll Get To*

• Own the end-to-end workflow of royalty processing, from receiving cash receipts from finance teams, processing the income into our system, performing reconciliations through to initiating the royalty period closes. Ensuring that all processes are aligned with our audit controls
• Lead 4 royalty income analysts, assisting in the team's career development for them to become future specialists and leaders at WCM.
• Guarantee that the data we receive from income providers is of the standard we require to accurately and sufficiently account to our songwriters.
• Review all affiliate income approved in our royalty system for Asian territories.
• Manage the review of deferred income.
• Ensure all pre-royalty run checks are completed by all interested parties.
• Provide instruction for the execution of royalty runs and communicate to the business when a royalty run has been completed, along with accompanying statistics.
• Collate, analyse and summarise suspense income data across Asian Territories.
• Assist affiliate offices in reducing their total suspense income values.
• Assess ways of working and provide innovative ideas of how the team can work more efficiently.
• Contribute to the implementation of system enhancements.
• Attend external meetings with CMOs, processing partners and 3rd parties as needed.
• Collate and maintain details of societies and processing partners distribution dates and commission deductions.
• Analyse the income received and processed.
• Support the SVP Global Rights and Royalties with reporting to senior management, strategic planning, goal setting and the execution of projects.
• Contribute to ongoing administration training initiatives. Ensuring all royalty processing training resources are up to date.
• Share industry news, updates and training with the global team.
• Complete and delegate ad-hoc duties in line with the needs of the business

About You

• You have a passion for professional development and an interest in leadership.
• You have brilliant interpersonal skills, are adaptable and are confident in leading a team.
• You love data, you have expert technical skills in data manipulation and are confident in completing analysis on high volumes of data.
• You are adept at data visualisation and are experienced with presenting analysis in a visual format to senior management.
• You have a high-level of numeracy.
• You are knowledgeable in Tableau, BI reporting, Alteryx, Looker or other reporting tools.
• You have advanced Excel skills, including Power Query, Power Pivot and advanced formulae.
• You are confident in completing reconciliations and undertaking variance analysis work.
• You have a detailed knowledge of the different data file types
• You are a natural forward planner with outstanding organisational skills
• You enjoy multi-tasking and know how to employ effective time-management, prioritisation and planning techniques to complete projects to deadlines.
• You are a critical problem solver with the ability to join dots and think laterally.
• You are self-motivated and results-focused with a proven track record to improve performance and process.
• You have excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
• You are prepared to travel and work extended hours as required
• You collaborate and coordinate with peers to strengthen business practices and build better efficiencies across departments globally.
• You are able to convey improvements needed in incoming data to external stakeholders
• You enjoy working with large datasets and finding the best ways to work with the data effectively and efficiently.
• Strong written and spoken English, other Asian languages are advantageous.

We'd Love It If You Also Had

• Previous managerial experience, especially at a music or media company, society.
• You have an all-round understanding of music publishing, with expertise in administration and experience using copyright and royalty systems.
• A background of working within finance.
• You are proficient in CMO practices, policies, society distribution rules and have experience relating to their licensing and distribution processes.
• You have advanced technical skills in Python, SQL, etc

About Us
At Warner Chappell Music (WCM), we shape the culture of songwriting and champion songs that resonate for generations by creating transformational opportunities for songwriters everywhere. Our people and culture are at the epicenter of our company, and we are looking for team members who share our service-oriented mindset and have a passion for looking after our songwriters.
As the global music publishing arm of Warner Music Group (WMG), we're a collective band of music lovers, innovative connectors, and relentless supporters of our songwriters and catalog of iconic works. We lead with curiosity, collaborate across departments, borders, languages, and genres, and we're committed to delivering on the promises we make to each other and to our songwriters.
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. And 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 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.
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