Royalties - Open Talent Pool
If you’re interested in future opportunities within our Royalties teams, we invite you to apply to our Royalties Talent Pool by submitting your CV through this application. This allows us to stay connected and reach out when suitable Royalties roles become available within our Global Finance Shared Services (GFSS) team in Warsaw.
At Sony Music Entertainment, we fuel the creative journey. From being home to the world’s first music label to shaping the future of music, entertainment, and technology, we’ve played a pioneering role in music history. Today, we operate in more than 60 countries, supporting a diverse roster of global superstars, independent artists, and visionary creators. Across everything we do, we are driven by creativity, collaboration, transparency, and entrepreneurial thinking.
Our Global Finance Shared Services Centre plays a vital role in supporting Sony Music’s core business worldwide. The team delivers end‑to‑end finance services across a wide scope of activities, ensuring suppliers and artists are paid accurately and on time for the incredible work they create. By partnering closely with local finance teams across the globe, GFSS has a strong understanding of how the business operates and contributes directly to Sony Music achieving its annual goals.
As part of the Royalties talent pool, you may be considered for future opportunities in one of our two Royalty teams; Royalty Operations or Royalty Accounting. In our Royalty Operations team, you will be a key contributor to the day-to-day operations within Royalties and will be involved in all aspects of artist royalties, managing and delivering accurate and timely royalty statements, performing reviews, analysis and reconciliations, managing and prioritizing clearing of suspense items, responding to internal and external inquiries, contract interpretation, coding and special projects. In Royalty Accounting, you will be responsible for all aspects of royalty accounting for designated affiliates, ensuring the accuracy and completeness of accounting closes, performing account analysis and reconciliation, and royalty reporting. You will work closely with all areas of the royalty department, corporate, global reporting and planning and external auditors.
The GFSS team is based in our modern workspace at the Elektrownia Powiśle centre in Warsaw.
If you’re looking to grow your career in finance within a global, creative, and fast‑paced organisation, we’d love to hear from you.
What you'll do as a Royalties Accountant:
- Prepare, review and analyze capitalized balances, associated royalty payables, recoupable recording and marketing costs, for reasonableness and proper accounting treatment. Prepare label talent provision and marketing recovery journal entries
- Review foreign royalty expense and prepare monthly accrual vs. actual analysis, intercompany reconciliations and associated journal entries
- Perform various balance sheet account analysis related to artist, copyright, union and foreign royalties to substantiate balances and clear reconciling items. This includes any royalty system to general ledger reconciliations
- Monitor, review and analyze artist/copyright/union expense for reasonableness and proper accounting treatment. Prepare manual journal entries to adjust royalty expense
- Special projects/other duties as assigned by management
- Review and improve internal controls where applicable
What you'll do as a Royalties Operations Analyst:
Royalty Contract Interpretation and Coding:
- Read the artist, producer, and/or third-party contract to obtain relevant information.
- Interpret contractual clauses related to the royalty obligation, including understanding the legal definitions of terms used within the contracts or related documents.
- Coordinate with Label’s legal and business affairs staff to obtain missing information.
- Set up and maintain accurate contractual information within the royalty system
Royalty Statement Review:
- Prepare the appropriate accounting statements as contractually required,
- Review sales and costs to ensure they are accurately stated.
- Update and analyze unrecouped balance analysis at account level.
- Prepare and research variance-reporting analysis to understand fluctuations with balances and payments.
Sales & Suspense Management:
- Review the new release schedule and work with the affiliate personal to ensure new releases are coded within the appropriate timeframe.
- Run sales query and reviewing results with Manager.
- Prepare and review suspense reports and provide reports to affiliate on a weekly basis.
Inquiries & Special Projects:
- Serve as Point of Contact for various internal and external inquiries related to assigned accounts.
- Provide Manager with status reports regarding the assigned artist accounts.
- Provide guidance to the entry-level staff members including providing an overview of tools available to assist in the completion of the assigned tasks.
- Assist in process design improvements focused on enhancing quality while reducing resource requirements.
Who you are:
- Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Business Administration, Economics, Accounting or Finance
- Relevant work experience
- Strong proficiency in Word, Excel (Pivot tables & VLOOKUP) and Outlook; SAP, EROS, and JIRA experience a plus
- Detail oriented individual with strong organizational and leadership skills that can handle multiple tasks simultaneously
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to interact well with different levels within the organization.
- Ability to analyze and review information from several different sources (corporate systems).
- Polish and English language, written and oral
- You join a vibrant global community with the opportunity to channel your passion every day
- A modern office environment designed for you, empowering you to bring your best
- Investment in your professional growth and development enabling you to thrive in our vibrant community
- The space to accelerate progress, positively disrupt and create what happens next
- We give you the platform to champion positive change, with the opportunity to contribute to our social impact, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
- We provide an excellent range of benefits like private medical cover, a generous pension scheme, life assurance, income protection, plus loads of music industry perks. There’s also time off over winter break
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