ROYALTY & DATA ANALYST

Primary Wave Music is the leading independent publisher of iconic and legendary music in the world. The company is home to some of the most iconic songwriters, artists, and record labels across the history of recorded music including Bob Marley, Prince, Stevie Nicks, James Brown, The Doors, Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, Smokey Robinson, Whitney Houston, Bing Crosby, Luther Vandross, Olivia Newton-John, and many more. The songs represented by Primary Wave include over 800 Top 10 singles, and over 400 #1 hits. Throughout the company's 16-year existence, Primary Wave Music has embraced an entrepreneurial spirit, offering, and executing proactive one-of-a-kind ideas, unique services, and marketing campaigns for our artists. Primary Wave has earned a stellar reputation for being forward thinking and re-introducing classic artists and their music into the modern marketplace as well as nurturing young talent to become legends themselves. This success is based upon our team of seasoned and creative executives collaboratively working together closely with our artists as partners. As a company, we strive for excellence in the pursuit of iconic artists and catalogs that not only reflect great artistry, but impact and influence culture.

Job Description:
We are looking for an enthusiastic colleague with a dedicated work ethic and a sharp mind who will be responsible for the accuracy and completeness of all incoming and calculated royalty data in accordance with contracts and copyright law. This position will play an integral role within systems designed to record and manage data for catalogs, assets, and transactions. The role reports to the Royalties & Data Manager, and will work closely with the accounting, administration, marketing and licensing teams.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Reviewing statements and payments received from third parties for accuracy and completeness; following up with revenue sources as appropriate
• Recording Net Publisher's Share and Net Label Share across income types to the General Ledger
• Preparing management reports using business intelligence tools to track and analyze earnings vs prior reports, projections and streams & airplay data
• Maintaining a deep understanding of investments, contract terms and financial metrics
• Proactively partnering with marketing, branding, content and licensing teams regarding rights owned and revenue impact of projects to inform real-time decisions and opportunities
• Engaging in desktop audits to recover revenue and blackbox income
• Identifying irregularities in reporting; synthesizing data to present to the administration and royalty audit teams for further review and correction
• Helping to ensure compliance with all internal and external policies and regulations
• Using best practices to improve efficiency of processes and analyses
• Communicating regularly and effectively with the team regarding all major issues impacting data and reporting

Experience and Skills:

• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel (Power Pivot, Lookups, Macros)
• Experience creating reports, dashboards, and data visualizations using Power BI, Tableau, or other similar tools
• Strong data analysis skills including experience in analyzing music royalty reports
• Ability to synthesize large volumes of data and create reports from scratch required
• Accounting and/or finance experience required
• Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy, with analytical and problem-solving skills required
• Ability to multi-task and manage time to prioritize tasks
• Must be self-motivated with an intellectual curiosity
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Benefits:
We offer exceptional benefits, to our employees. In addition to a competitive salary, we offer and an excellent career path. We provide one of the best available benefit programs for small businesses, including a healthcare plan, 401(k), long-term and short-term disability, holidays, life insurance, hybrid work schedule, and vacation.

We work to maintain the best possible environment for our employees, where people can learn and grow with the company. We strive to provide a collaborative, creative environment where each person feels encouraged to contribute to our processes, decisions, planning and culture.

To Apply:
To respond to this great opportunity, please click on the link to complete an application and submit your resume.

Individuals can perform essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation.