Publishing Administration Manager – Sony Music Publishing

Job Overview

• Company: Sony Music Publishing
• Role: Publishing Administration Manager
• Location: Mumbai, India
• Job Type: Full-Time

Sony Music Publishing is looking for a detail-oriented Publishing Administration Manager to oversee catalog administration, royalty tracking, and global publishing operations. This role plays a key part in ensuring accurate data management, rights administration, and timely royalty processing across international markets.

What You’ll Do: (job responsibilities)

• Liaison with Global Admin in London for guidance in administering 3rd party catalogues in India before/after deals are signed.
• Liaison with GCA Nashville for reporting all new deals; deal modifications, songs, and song amendments
• Monitoring and verification of local data relating to local signings, as loaded in Tempo
• Registration of agreements and song to local society
• Ensuring timelines of deliveries to meet distribution deadlines
• Handle Copyright related enquiries from Global Admin/GCA
• Manage FTV cue sheet feeds (from SME India) and associated tracking
• Handling of counterclaims and disputes, samples, and unauthorized usages
• Liaison with IPRS in respect of representation of catalogue
• Monitoring for timely royalty reporting from all income sources.
• Support submitting CRJ’s to Nashville to ensure accurate processing of royalties received
• Responsible for managing SCORE enrolment for local clients and managing associated workflow
• Responsible for reviewing royalty run reports to ensure accurate reporting.
• Tracking income to ensure no income is outstanding or missing and escalating where necessary.
• Reviewing, analyzing and releasing income lines held in Internal Suspense and Calc Error to maximize income processed.
• Co-ordinating royalty payment runs to clients.
• Dealing with affiliate and client queries relating to SMP India to ensure complete and accurate accounting.
• Compiling Reconciliation Summaries
• Compiling/performing Quarterly Collection analysis and present to management
• Ongoing review of existing links between Tempo songs, ISRC’s and other identifiers to assess and verify the quality of those links.
• Responding to audit claims either locally or internationally
• Responding to requests from Global Admin, Affiliates, and Management
• Liaison with local signings from an admin perspective
• Liaison with local society and local DSPs from an admin perspective
• Any other publishing admin tasks required

Who You Are: (skills/experience/qualifications in order of importance)

Essential requirements

• Education – Any Graduate Degree
• Experience working in Music Publishing & Content Administration
• Advanced Microsoft Office applications (excel essential)
• Advanced data manipulation skills
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills, highly interactive and communicative with others and able to express ideas in clear, logical, and constructive way
• Ability to escalate issues based on business needs and prioritization
• Supports, co-operates, and collaborates with the General Manager sharing access to data, information and expertise
• Able to prioritize workload efficiently to ensure all responsibilities are met and delivered on a timely basis and open issues are followed through and resolved satisfactorily
• Effective at working with internal colleagues and external bodies to ensure that the data requirements for the team are met and continuously improved
• Works towards team/department/company objectives and taking pride in meeting
• targets and satisfying internal & external customers

What We Give You:

Apart from our many benefits we have something for everyone!

• You join an inclusive, collaborative and global community where you have the opportunity to fuel the creative journey
• A modern office environment designed to foster productivity, creativity, and teamwork
• An attractive and comprehensive benefits package
• We invest in your professional growth & development
• Employee Assistance Programme