Title: Publishing Insight Analyst
Type: Full time; Permanent
Reporting to: Publishing Insight Manager
Date: June 2023
AUDIO NETWORK IS A GLOBAL MUSIC COMPANY CREATING ORIGINAL, HIGH-QUALITY MUSIC FOR USE IN TV, FILM AND ADVERTISING AND FOR USER-GENERATED CONTENT ACROSS DIGITAL AND SOCIAL PLATFORMS.
WITH A ROSTER OF OVER 1,000 ARTISTS AND A CATALOGUE OF +200,000 TRACKS ACROSS EVERY CONCEIVABLE GENRE – WE’RE HELPING OUR CUSTOMERS FIND THE PERFECT TRACK TO TELL THEIR STORY.
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
A data analyst with 1-2 years’ experience to join Audio Network’s Publishing and Data teams in London.
The Publishing team manages royalty income globally. The team’s responsibilities include creating synchronisation licences, registering works, maintaining relationships with PROs (Performing Rights Organisations), analysing and forecasting royalty income and ensuring accurate collections.
Working with the Publishing Insight Manager, you will be responsible for providing analysis on music usage trends for our catalogue globally. This will vary from helping the sales teams drive music usage and focus their work on the highest value clients and TV shows; to working with the music team to identify trends and analyse album performance; and working with our finance team to forecast and analyse royalty receipts against target.
This role is a fantastic opportunity providing collaboration across many teams in the business and plays a vital part in ensuring the business meets its goals and achieves its budgeted growth.
This is a full time, permanent role, based in our office in Hatton Garden, London, on a hybrid working pattern.
THE ROLE
Music Usage Analysis:
- Using Tunesat and BMAT audio recognition software to identify and attribute broadcasts of Audio
- Network’s music catalogue around the world, determining show usage vs advertising usage.
- Providing in-depth analysis of music usage data to our music and sales teams using Microsoft Excel and Business Intelligence tools (Sisense), and reporting to the wider business each month in a timely manner.
- Regularly updating Sisense with new royalty rates and performance targets.
- Working with Publishing Insight Manager to gain a deeper understanding of the complex distribution policies of PROs around the world and implanting those into our forecasting models.
Sales Prioritisation:
- Producing and reporting on monthly ‘heatmaps’ – a tool to help our global sales teams prioritise their activity based on the potential royalty value of our music in TV shows .
- Participating in monthly heatmap meetings with various global sales teams to add valuable insight.
- Embedding global heatmap in quarterly meetings with General Managers.
Financial Reporting:
- Updating royalty forecasting model monthly with music performance data.
- Loading statements into Music Maestro monthly.
- Attending monthly accrued royalty income meetings to provide context based on TuneSat and BMAT analysis.
- Preparation of PRO cash receipt variance reports and analysis.
- Assisting in preparation of bi-annual performance royalty forecasts.
Music Reporting:
- Responsible for maintaining operational Sisense music dashboards and ensuring they meet the needs of the music team to help inform music commissioning strategy.
- Attending music team meetings to ensure dashboards are fulfilling purpose, and creating improved reporting.
- Ad hoc data requests from music team – drive and own data requirements, coming up with ideas for how best to answer hypotheses.
SPECIAL SKILLS
- 1-2 years experience in a data analyst role (essential)
- Strong Excel skills, confident in using complex formulas and pivot tables (essential)
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills required to interact effectively with colleagues at all levels across the business (essential)
- A broad understanding of, or experience in, the music industry (desirable)
- Basic SQL skills (query statements) – (desirable)
- Financial experience (desirable)
COMPENSATION PACKAGE
- Competitive salary
- Discretionary bonus
- Private Healthcare
- Holiday 25 days per annum plus 8 public holidays
- Pension
- Life insurance
- Volunteering opportunities
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Summer hours on Friday’s (June to early Sept)
BE YOUR ORIGINAL SELF: OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
At Audio Network, we celebrate originality – it’s a key part of our business. We truly believe that to create the highest quality experience, for everyone, we need diverse teams, telling diverse stories. We’re committed to building these teams and always striving to ensure everyone is empowered to bring their whole, unique selves to work each day. Each Audio Networker is unique – but they are all treated the same: with dignity, respect, compassion, and equality.
We are committed to making all employment decisions without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, or any other legally protected status. If you are contacted for a job opportunity, please advise us of any accommodation needed to ensure you have access to a fair and equitable process.
Are you ready to be part of our success story?
Audio Network provides original music of the highest quality for broadcasters, brands, creators and music fans, alongside simple and transparent licensing that allows creators to use music on multiple platforms, everywhere, forever.
Founded in 2001, by music entrepreneurs Andrew Sunnucks and Robert Hurst, we are an inclusive, global music company, with some of the entertainment industry’s most talented individuals on our team and working alongside us as partners. Working with a catalogue of more than 1000+ artists, composers and producers, and 200,000+ wholly owned tracks, our growing team of more than 170 music professionals, across 15 locations globally, is dedicated to bringing you incredible music.