The Job

The Copyright Team sits within Sentric’s Rights division. Its objectives are:

• To ensure accurate and timely registration of client’s copyrights around the world.
• To maximise revenue streams from all potential sources.
• To identify areas of potential income growth for client’s catalogues.
• To partner with internal teams to ensure client expectations are exceeded, ensuring significant retention and renewal levels are maintained.
• To ensure clients are at the centre of all activity, ensuring Sentric´s ethos of fairness, transparency and customer focus is evident at all times.

The Copyright Assistant will be responsible for supporting the Rights team in the administration of clients’ copyrights. They will interact with clients, collection societies and other interested parties to facilitate effective global administration of copyrights.

Your missions are :

Copyright Administration       

• Assist with answering basic client copyright queries from other publishers and Performing Rights Organisations.
• Assist with resolving copyright conflicts/counterclaims.
• Assist with termination of copyright claims
• Assist with data enrichment in system.
• Assist wider team with Copyright queries.

Rights Management & Client Management Support
 

• Assist with special projects initiated by the wider Rights team division, Client Managers and Director of Rights, ensuring a qualitative and timely resolution of assigned project tasks.
• Assist Rights team with ad hoc duties to cover holiday periods etc.

The Job

Reporting to: Royalty Processing Manager, Head of Royalties

Department Objectives

The Royalty Team performs a key role in the Music Publishing cycle, ensuring accurate and timely payment of client’s royalties. Our aim is to provide a first class experience to our clients by:

• Efficiently Processing Incoming Statements.
• Accurately Matching Income.
• Accelerate Client Payments.
• Enhance Data Quality.
• Constantly looking to improve and evolve processes.

Job Summary

The royalty matching assistant will be responsible for supporting the Royalties team with a focus on ensuring accurate matching of income. They will interact with various departments internally to maximise the accuracy of all royalty matching and enhance the quality of song data.

Job Description

Royalty Matching Administration       

• Daily review of unmatched income, ensuring full matching of all received income.
• Weekly reporting of identified matches.
• Review, identify and resolve any share conflicts with Rights Team.
• Ensure accurate Society Work Numbers are recorded and correct on all versions of Songs and assist with data enrichment exercises.
• Provide Client Management with unmatched works list for managed clients.
• Assist wider team with additional Royalty tasks.

Additional Support
 

• Assist with special projects initiated by the wider Royalty division, ensuring a qualitative and timely resolution of assigned project tasks.
• Assist the Royalty Team during key points throughout Sentric Music’s royalty distribution cycles.
• Assist Royalty team with ad hoc duties to cover holiday periods etc.

The Job

The Finance Analyst will work as part of the Liverpool-based Finance team, reporting to the Head of Finance. The role is predominantly office-based; we have recently moved to a new office right in the centre of the city. We envisage this as a full-time role but we would consider applications from candidates who would prefer to work part time or to work non-standard work patterns (requests should be included in your job application).

The successful candidate will focus on completing royalty accounting entries and analysing royalty data. Typical duties will include:

• Bank Reconciliations –reconciling cash receipts and booking of royalty data in the accounting system
• Effective communication with artists, writers, artist managers and business clients at all levels
• Royalty analysis – analysing royalty notifications to ensure they agree to cash received; creating cash bookings from the data in the finance ledger; working proactively with the royalty team to investigate and correct discrepancies
• Variance Reporting – creating report analysing and explaining variances in revenue received compared to budget and forecasts.
• Updating forecasts based on outcomes of variance analysis
• Tax – preparing Withholding Tax forms; applying to HMRC for certificates of residence; liaising with international payers to provide information on tax status
• Liaison with Legal and Business Affairs teams to help ensure timely and accurate delivery of offers and long form contracts
• Artist advances appraisal – assisting with the artist advances appraisal process
• Ad hoc finance tasks

The Job

 Reporting to:  Head of Rights 

Department Objectives 

The Revenue Optimisation team sits within Sentric’s Rights division. Its objectives are: 

• To maximise revenue streams from all potential sources. 

• To identify areas of potential income growth for client’s catalogues. 

• To partner with internal teams to ensure client expectations are exceeded, ensuring significant retention and renewal levels are maintained. 

• To ensure clients are at the centre of all activity, ensuring Sentric’s ethos of fairness, transparency and customer focus is evident at all times. 

Job Summary 

The Manager: Revenue Optimisation will lead on ensuring all opportunities to fully maximise potential sources of publishing related income are identified and maximised. They will use their knowledge of additional royalty generating opportunities to give direction on areas of focus for the Live Claims and Income Tracking teams. They will oversee the work of the audit team (in collaboration with the Copyright Assurance Officer and Insights Team), using data analysis to identify any actions required to ensure everything is in place to allow for maximum revenue optimisation.   

Job Description 

Team Management 

• Liaise with Team Leaders to oversee the day-to-day operations of the Live Claims, Audit & Activity Tracking teams, using data and experience to identify key areas of focus. 

• Continually assess the operations of the Live Claims, Audit & Activity Tracking teams and work with management to implement improvements. 

• Set and ensure KPIs are being met both internally and across collection network. 

• Work with Head of Rights to ensure the continual development of Copyright team skills.  

Tracking 

• Exploring all avenues of Revenue Optimisation to ensure our clients catalogues are returning maximum value. 

• Working with the tracking team to give direction on focus for generating royalties and reviewing results to report back to business. 

• Identifying and assessing new opportunities for revenue maximisation 

Live Claims 

• Working with team leader to ensure efficient processing of live claims. 

• Identifying and assessing potential value and opportunity of live sector 

• Working with internal stakeholders to develop software systems. 

Audit 

• Provide direction on focus of audit activity. 

• Working across teams with result of audit information to ensure actions are taken to optimise revenue. 

• Work with Insights, Audit & Copyright Officer Assurance Officer to provide reports to Director of Rights on performance of CMO’s in relation to catalogue registrations.