Business Affairs Administration Coordinator

at  Concord Music Group Inc

Overview:
Concord is the independent, worldwide leader in the development, management and acquisition of sound recordings, music publishing, theatrical performance rights and narrative content.
Headquartered in Nashville with additional offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, Berlin, Melbourne and Miami, Concord also has staff in Auckland, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto. The Company’s catalog consists of more than 1 million songs, composed works, plays, musicals and active recordings which are licensed in virtually every country and territory worldwide.
As the Business Affairs Administration Associate, you’ll be supporting the U.S. music publishing business for Concord and will primarily be responsible for assisting with the managing of publishing contracts, fielding of inquiries and the maintenance of various tracking reports for a subset of the songwriter/composer roster. This position reports to the Director, Business Affairs Administration and works under general supervision of the Sr. Director, Business Affairs Administration, Publishing, who manages the contracts for the U.S. publishing business in New York (including the U.S. roster of songwriters and catalogs managed by the New York, Nashville and Los Angeles - based A&R teams, the U.S. classical music composer roster and catalogs for Boosey & Hawkes in New York, and certain legacy publishing catalogs).
Responsibilities:

• Serve as a point of contact to assist the Director, Business Affairs Administration, Publishing in providing business and legal affairs contract administration support for the various US publishing teams.
• Manage the contract administration responsibilities for a subset of the U.S. publishing business:
• Interact with other depts. to ensure proper administration of contracts and related deliverables: e.g., proper registration, royalty administration, etc.
• Prepare contract summaries
• Work cross-functionally with various internal departments on songwriter client inquiries in collaboration with A&R, Copyright, Royalty, Client Services and/or Finance
• Assist with preparing and maintaining reports and tracking mechanisms, including for the purpose of tracking new agreements, upcoming options and expirations, delivery requirements, advance triggering events, recoupment positions, and other material terms)
• Prepare and track invoices for contractual payments for publishing deals across the U.S. publishing business
• Maintain publishing files and records in accordance with company’s document storage and retention policy, including participation in various technology initiatives.
• Provide support to the rest of the Publishing Business & Legal Affairs department as projects and need arise
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