About Sony Music Publishing
Sony Music Publishing, established in 1995, is the world's leading music publisher. The company owns or administers a diverse catalogue of songs by iconic artists and songwriters, including The Beatles, Queen, Motown, Carole King, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and The Rolling Stones, as well as contemporary songwriters like Ed Sheeran, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Olivia Rodrigo, Pharrell Williams, Rihanna and many more.
The Publishing Administration Department manages registration and monitoring of repertoire works and managing relationship with our partner publishers, songwriters, and copyright societies.
What You'll Do: (job responsibilities)
- Liaison with Global Admin in London for guidance in administering 3rd party catalogues in India before/after deals are signed.
- Liaison with GCA Nashville for reporting all new deals; deal modifications, songs, and song amendments
- Monitoring and verification of local data relating to local signings, as loaded in Tempo
- Registration of agreements and song to local society
- Ensuring timelines of deliveries to meet distribution deadlines
- Handle Copyright related enquiries from Global Admin/GCA
- Manage FTV cue sheet feeds (from SME India) and associated tracking
- Handling of counterclaims and disputes, samples, and unauthorized usages
- Liaison with IPRS in respect of representation of catalogue
- Monitoring for timely royalty reporting from all income sources.
- Support submitting CRJ's to Nashville to ensure accurate processing of royalties received
- Responsible for managing SCORE enrolment for local clients and managing associated workflow
- Responsible for reviewing royalty run reports to ensure accurate reporting.
- Tracking income to ensure no income is outstanding or missing and escalating where necessary.
- Reviewing, analyzing and releasing income lines held in Internal Suspense and Calc Error to maximize income processed.
- Co-ordinating royalty payment runs to clients.
- Dealing with affiliate and client queries relating to SMP India to ensure complete and accurate accounting.
- Compiling Reconciliation Summaries
- Compiling/performing Quarterly Collection analysis and present to management
- Ongoing review of existing links between Tempo songs, ISRC's and other identifiers to assess and verify the quality of those links.
- Responding to audit claims either locally or internationally
- Responding to requests from Global Admin, Affiliates, and Management
- Liaison with local signings from an admin perspective
- Liaison with local society and local DSPs from an admin perspective
- Any other publishing admin tasks required
Who You Are: (skills/experience/qualifications in order of importance)
Essential requirements
- Education – Any Graduate Degree
- Experience working in Music Publishing & Content Administration
- Advanced Microsoft Office applications (excel essential)
- Advanced data manipulation skills
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills, highly interactive and communicative with others and able to express ideas in clear, logical, and constructive way
- Ability to escalate issues based on business needs and prioritization
- Supports, co-operates, and collaborates with the General Manager sharing access to data, information and expertise
- Able to prioritize workload efficiently to ensure all responsibilities are met and delivered on a timely basis and open issues are followed through and resolved satisfactorily
- Effective at working with internal colleagues and external bodies to ensure that the data requirements for the team are met and continuously improved
- Works towards team/department/company objectives and taking pride in meeting
- targets and satisfying internal & external customers
What We Give You:
Apart from our many benefits we have something for everyone!
- You join an inclusive, collaborative and global community where you have the opportunity to fuel the creative journey
- A modern office environment designed to foster productivity, creativity, and teamwork
- An attractive and comprehensive benefits package
- We invest in your professional growth & development
- Employee Assistance Programme
