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 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.
The Royalty 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.
Responsibilities:
As our Distribution Control Coordinator, some of your day to day duties will include….
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- Completion of pre and post distribution approval and control processes to facilitate distributions that are timely, accurate and as complete as possible
- 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
• Strong numerical reasoning

Our interview process for this role is simple:

• First stage interview will take place virtually on MS Teams.
• Second stage interview will take place in person at our London Bridge Hub