Neighbouring Rights Analytics Analyst

Location: Greater London

## Neighbouring Rights Business Analyst Apply locations:
Kings Cross, London time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted 13 Days Agojob requisition :
UMG-25556

Music is Universal     It’s the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the world’s leading music company. From A&R to finance, legal to digital, sales to marketing, Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.

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** The Role
** This role sits at the heart of the Global Rights & Society Relations team, combining neighbouring rights expertise with modern analytics to support the department’s core objective of maximising revenue for UMG’s labels and artists.

The Neighbouring Rights Business Analyst will deliver high-quality analysis, insights and recommendations across revenue assurance, performance tracking and business planning. The role will focus on identifying revenue opportunities through the interrogation of complex datasets, including revenue statements and usage data, and translating findings into clear, actionable outcomes for the business.

Alongside this, the role will take ownership of key data structures and reporting solutions, ensuring data is accurate, accessible and effectively used across the team. The individual will work closely with Finance, Operations, Business Development and other stakeholders, acting as a trusted partner in supporting decision-making, forecasting and strategic initiatives.

This is an opportunity for a highly motivated and analytical individual to play a key role in a developing and fast-moving area of the business.#
** Key duties and responsibilities
**** Analysis, insights and revenue optimisation
*** Analyse neighbouring rights revenue statements alongside usage and airplay data to identify trends, discrepancies and opportunities for revenue recovery
* Investigate performance questions, identifying what has changed and why, and clearly communicate findings and recommended actions
* Support and enhance the neighbouring rights revenue assurance programme, including identification and tracking of missing revenues across labels and performers
* Deliver structured analysis to support forecasting, benchmarking and performance evaluation across territories, societies and catalogues
* Provide analytical support for business development activities, including evaluation of prospective deals and new opportunities
* Provide support for royalty processing and ongoing enhancement of data for both internal and external reporting
** Data ownership and reporting
*** In collaboration with Global Technology and other Business Analysts, design and maintain scalable data ecosystems (including Big Query) that enable low-touch, reusable datasets and support cross-functional use across other UMG departments
* Design, build and maintain dashboards, scorecards and recurring reports to support self-service analytics across the GRSR team
* Translate business requirements into robust data models and reporting solutions
* Ensure clear documentation of data definitions, methodologies and processes to support consistency and efficiency
* Continuously identify opportunities to improve data quality, automate processes and reduce manual reporting
** Stakeholder partnership and communication
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