Warner Music Group

Income Tracking Analyst

CHN - Genesis East Tower - Beijing Full time

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.
 

This role will provide revenue tracking support to the publishing functions in the Asia Pacific region, and will involve a variety of administrative tasks, including but not limited to, income tracking, dealings with the societies, overseas affiliates, and suspense research. Key responsibilities will include administration of all areas of Warner/Chappell Music’s Catalogues across Warner Chappell Music APAC & Global.

Here you'll get to:

  • Identify and make claims for shortfalls in income from various territories.

  • Liaise with counterparts across all affiliate offices, PRO/CMO, DSP and sub-publishers to ensure income flows are in line with expectations and resolve any interruptions or discrepancies.

  • Ensure affiliate income queries are resolved.

  • Provide the business with regular forecasts/updates by income providers (society/DSP/affiliate/third party).

  • Assist the Income Tracking Team on projects including ad hoc forecasts and income analysis.

  • Collaborate with the global Income Tracking teams to resolve and proactively prevent problems arising with the collection of income.

  • Work closely with the regional Royalty and Copyright teams to both resolve and proactively prevent problems arising with the collection of income.

  • Additional ad hoc responsibilities supporting administration purpose.

About you:

  • Degree in Administration/Music/Finance/relevant majors with 3-4 years of relevant experience in income/revenue tracking or 2-3 years in Music Publishing or 3 years in Music Industry.

  • Skills to analyze, extract & manipulate data from high volume datafiles.

  • Able to read, write and speak English, Traditional & Simplified Chinese, Malay.  Other Asian language is a plus.

  • A forensic and detail-oriented approach to analysing data with a track record in delivering accurate results.

  • Have Excel/Google Sheet capabilities including Pivot Table & advanced formula.

  • A results-oriented professional who thrives in a client-facing capacity, confidently managing relationships and communicating with stakeholders at all levels, internally and externally.

  • Ability to manage multiple projects at once and hit time-sensitive deadlines.

  • Possesses a blend of ambition, persistence, and commitment, with a strong appetite for learning and tackling new challenges.

  • The ability to join dots, think laterally and understand both downstream and upstream impact of events.

  • Excels in a structured environment, demonstrating the focus and discipline required to perform routine tasks with a high degree of accuracy and consistency.

  • Excellent organizational and time management skills.

  • Able to work independently with minimal supervision.

  • Candidates with less experience will be considered for the Junior Analyst level.

We'd love it if you also had:

  • Ability to write scripts to automate tasks.

  • Proficiency with SQL/Snowflake queries (Joins, Subquery, etc).

  • Experience with BI visualization tools such as Power BI and Tableau.

  • Experience with Power Query and Alteryx.

  • Understanding of Performance Rights Organization, international collection society structures and their licensing/distribution processes.

  • A passion for music.

#WCM


As the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, East West, 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 catalog 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.

Love this job and want to apply?

Click the “Apply” link at the top of the page, or apply directly with your LinkedIn. Applying with LinkedIn will import all of the information you put in your profile, but will still allow you to upload a resume and cover letter.

 

Don’t be discouraged if you don’t hear from us right away. We’re taking our time to review all resumes, and to find the best people for WMG.

 

Thanks for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here, and think you will, too.
 

This position requires a minimum of 4 days per week in the office. We value in-office collaboration, which is essential for talent development and strong working relationships. #LI-Onsite


WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religion or belief, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or any other characteristic protected by law.