Overview
Music wouldn’t exist without the work of songwriters, composers and publishers. We’re here to represent them and make sure that they are paid for their work. After more than a century in the industry, we continue to innovate as a world-leading organisation.
The Role
The Royalty Distributions Analyst (known internally as Distribution Control Coordinator) has a specific focus on activities supporting the overall distribution control and approvals process. You will handle checks and compliance on all areas of distribution operations and accounts, ensuring accuracy and detection of potential issues and be accountable for ensuring all approvals and supporting work meets strictly defined deadlines. You are responsible for completion of pre and post distribution control, approval and preparation activities to facilitate the end-to-end process across scheduling to payments including maintenance of schedules, journals, manual spreadsheets/calculations and systems.
The Operations & Royalty Distributions department at PRS for Music is crucial in managing the end-to-end process of distributing royalties to its members – both through the main quarterly distributions, and through smaller, monthly distributions. Through a collaborative and inclusive team approach, Distribution Operations work closely with teams across the business to calculate the revenue available for distributions, matching music usage data with licensed revenue and performing agreed control checks to ensure accuracy and completeness. There is also a chance to be involved in PRS’ distribution policy decisions and reviews of its operational processes, while delivering record-breaking distributions to PRS members.
Responsibilities
As our Distribution Control Coordinator, some of your day to day duties will include…
- Completion of pre and post distribution approval and control processes to facilitate distributions that are timely, accurate and as complete as possible
- Track and forecast personal progression against distribution plan and provide updates on work tasks to manager
- Ensure all control and approval activity is applied consistently and fully recorded in accordance with the dictated structure
- Reconciliation of distribution accounts; identifying issues and preparing journals to correct balances
- Support the manager in ensuring the team act as a central financial control point
- Uses Root Cause Analysis to drive improvements to reduce error/query re-occurrence
For a full list of duties, please email the recruitment team and request a copy of the job description.
About you
At PRS for Music, we want you to bring the best version of yourself to work. We believe that celebrating individuality promotes a culture of acceptance and openness. Along with being whoever you want to be, in an ideal world you will also have:
- Excel Skills – Intermediate
- Accuracy and high attention to detail
- Problem solving skills
- Good organisational skills, working around multiple deadlines
- Strong numerical reasoning
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite
What’s in it for you?
Here are just a few things that set PRS for Music apart from the crowd:
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We trust, value, and support our people to make the difference
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We believe that diversity of thought and experience provides the platform for innovation and creativity
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We are consciously inclusive and have eight Affinity Groups which you can join and make an impact
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We invest in the development of our people to drive our ambitions forward
- We offer a range of family friendly leave including enhanced maternity and paternity, grandparent, fertility, reproductive and menopause support.
- We know time to rest and recharge is important which is why we offer 25 days holiday entitlement with the option to top up twice annually up to a maximum of 30 days
- Employees can work from anywhere in the world for up to two months of the year
- Plus a whole range of other benefits, including retail discounts, gym discounts, season ticket or bicycle loan.
The Process
Our interview process for this role is simple:
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First stage interview will take place virtually on MS Teams.
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Second stage interview will take place in person at our London Bridge Hub.
We use competency-based questions within our interviews. This allows you to provide examples of situations where you have had to demonstrate the required skills relevant to the role you are applying for. To assist your preparation for interview, research the STAR method to aid bringing your examples to life.
Location
We offer a hybrid working model, allowing employees to work from home up to three days a week.
To ensure the health and safety of all our employees, if you wish to work from home for more than 2.5 days per week, we will conduct a quick and easy remote-working assessment.
If you sound like you could be the right person for the job, apply now.
At PRS we are committed to equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging for all. We have taken a holistic approach to ensure that no one feels excluded regardless of age, class, sexuality, gender, race, religion, or ability. We value the needs of everyone in our organisation and strive to build an environment where our employee’s contributions are recognised in order that everyone may thrive.
