Analyst, Income Tracking

Job Purpose

Support mechanical income tracking and analysis by ensuring royalties are accurately reviewed, validated, and reported. This role assists with identifying income discrepancies, responding to internal inquiries, and supporting examinations and reporting efforts across physical, digital, and streaming mechanicals.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with staff across multiple departments to meet expectations for productivity, quality, and goal accomplishment
• Use multiple systems and resources to ensure royalties are effectively tracked, with a focus on physical, digital, and streaming mechanicals
• Aid in identifying and recovering income related to royalty shortfalls and discrepancies
• Respond to questions from outside departments to support proper processing and quality assurance
• Aid in cyclical royalty summaries and financial reporting
• Support source and third-party royalty examinations through data gathering, validation, and analysis
• Aid in ad hoc requests, projects, and analytical support as needed

Who You Are

• Solid understanding of copyright economics and industry standard accounting principles and practices
• Skilled in interpreting mechanical royalty data, encompassing reporting for physical/digital sales by labels or third-party administrators, along with streaming income distributed by the MLCA
• Highly organized person that pays close attention to the details
• You strive for efficiency & effectiveness in your responsibilities
• A clear and effective communicator
• Demonstrated ability to lead and foster teamwork and unity within a department
• You have a strategic mindset and lean on data to inform and track business goals
• Advanced proficiency of various computer applications such as MS Excel, with the ability to quickly learn programs that work with large volumes of data (Python skills are a plus)
• 3 or more years of music publishing and/or other related experience required
• Must be authorized to work in the United States
• 7.5-hour business workday but variations in work volume frequently require extended working hours for evening and late-night events