JOB SUMMARY
You will play a critical role in analysing and responding to client audits. In this growing team you will gather data for fieldwork, and use your analytical skills to effectively support data-driven rebuttals to client audits. You will develop processes to allow Kobalt to respond to audit enquiries at a faster cadence, ensuring our clients are paid correctly.
To be successful in this role, you will need a high level of organisational and prioritisation skills, as well as a proven ability to quickly adapt to new exciting challenges. You will turn complex royalty questions into clearly scoped analytical projects. You will be comfortable making sense out of very large datasets, and communicating complex concepts in a digestible format.
In your day-to-day, you will take ownership of all analytics requests focused on client audits, communicate with auditors on various matters including commencement materials, fieldwork documents request, and audit reports.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Leverage 3rd party data to strengthen our rebuttals and counter dubious claims
- Extract and explore data confidently using SQL and Excel for fieldwork requests.
- Communicate with stakeholders across the business to build cases for rebuttals
- Identify, analyse, and promptly escalate critical issues or insights to senior stakeholders and decision makers. Provide a clear, data-backed rationale for escalation, including potential impacts, recommended actions, and any necessary follow-ups to ensure timely and effective resolution.
- Internal audit of quarterly royalty/statement processes
- Other duties at the time of statement generation
Essential Criteria:
- Proven experience in a royalty audit function, working with large amounts of data and/or big data
- Advanced Excel and SQL skills
- Strong communication skills with the ability to consolidate and analyse information from several sources into a coherent story
- Demonstrated ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Curious nature, with a strong ability to quickly learn new concepts
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
- Within 3 months have a working understanding of Kobalt’s databases and third-party data sources which are available to answer audit claims.
- Within 6 months be autonomously running sections of the audit process and with support from external stakeholders leading large investigations.
- Within a year have the knowledge and confidence to be running multiple audits concurrently and suggest methodologies to improve response times to rebuttals.
- Delivering data-lead, accurate, robust rebuttals to audit reports.
Desirable Criteria
- Experience working within Music is preferable but not essential. You are curious to learn about publishing and royalty revenue streams
- Excellent communication skills with experience telling compelling data stories
- Can-do attitude and strong project management capabilities
- Innovative solution-driven mindset with a keen desire to create, improve, and automate
- High level of attention to detail.
WHY CHOOSE US?
At Kobalt we’ve prioritized creators since we first started in 2000. Our music services and the technology we’ve built helps make the industry more fair and rewarding for artists.
We’re trusted by some of the world’s biggest names like Doja Cat, Kali Uchis, Phoebe Bridgers and Sam Fender and songwriters such as Simon Aldred (Rag N Bone Man, Liam Gallagher, Celeste) and Clarence Coffee Jr. (Dua Lipa, Lizzo, The Snuts).
We thrive on creativity and are committed to championing diversity. We’re dedicated to inclusiveness and provide all the resources and benefits you need to grow your career and reach your potential. We offer competitive compensation packages, professional development opportunities, and an entrepreneurial culture that makes working here not just fun, but also rewarding.
Top Skills
What We Do
Kobalt is one of the world’s largest, most innovative music companies, using technology to power creative freedom, transparency, ownership and control for artists, songwriters, publishers, and labels.
As file-sharing wreaked havoc on the record industry, Kobalt took a bet on digital music and won. Founded in 2000 by Swedish entrepreneur Willard Ahdritz, the startup built a platform to maximize efficiency, accuracy, and transparency across the billions of micro-payments collected in today’s highly complex digital world. As traditional music companies fought technology and contracted, Kobalt embraced it and grew, building an infrastructure and world-class creative team purposely designed to usher in the streaming era, along with a more fair, rewarding music business for creators.
Today, Kobalt has over 700 employees in 12 offices around the world, represents over 20,000 artists and songwriters, 600,000 songs and 600 publishing companies, and continues to push its disruptive philosophy and values into other areas of the music industry. Recent innovations like AWAL, an alternative to the traditional record label, and AMRA, the world’s first global digital performing rights organization, are both considered major agents of change in their respective businesses.
Kobalt is proud to work with some of the world’s greatest artists and songwriters, representing on average over 60% of the top 100 songs in both the US and UK. Kobalt clients include Childish Gambino, Marshmello, Beck, Wolf Alice, Max Martin, Bob Dylan, Ozuna, Tash Sultana, Paul McCartney and MPL Communications, Disney Music Group, and many more.
