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NKSFBManager - Royalty
May. 2024Encino, CA
The Colony GroupRoyalties Director
Oct. 2019 - Apr. 2024Greater Los Angeles Area
Glass MalekDirector, Royalties
Apr. 2018 - Sep. 2019Los Angeles, California
Warner Music GroupManager, Participations
Apr. 2012 - Apr. 2018Burbank, CA
Robert Half Management ResourcesSr. Manager, Participations (Warner Music Group)
Jan. 2011 - Apr. 2012Burbank, CA• Prepared and reviewed monthly, quarterly and semi-annual P&D, joint venture and participations statements and associated balance sheet reconciliations. • Reviewed release schedules and contracts to ensure appropriate and timely set-up and reporting of new participant statements. • Prepared weekly status reports for management. • Collaborated with team to provide overall procedural efficiencies.
• Liaised with various internal and external clients.
• Collaborated with Legal, Finance and Royalty departments to ensure reporting compliance. • Handled various special projects and research.
TechnicolorBid - Project Manager (Short-Term Contract Work)
Jan. 2011 - Jan. 2011Burbank, CA• Managed administration of cross-functional project teams and coordination of third party partners. • Analyzed bid/pricing processes, identified bottlenecks and designed improved policies, procedures, or processes to improve upon the organization’s bid success rate. • Tracked bids and pricing requests to measure on-time delivery and prompt escalation as necessary. • Facilitated decision making, bid development, and pricing request prioritization.
• Developed and encouraged the adoption of bid management and pricing best practices.
• Established and promoted clear lines of communication among all participants and stakeholders. • Ensured optimal use of organizational assets by managing bid/quote priority, risk, and resource allocation.
Disney Interactive Media GroupManager, Royalties & Participations
Jan. 2006 - Jan. 2011• Managed all aspects of WDIG/DIMG’s royalties and participations accounting / administration. Royalty participants included: Record Labels Music Publishers Developers Licensors Characters • Established and maintained the processes and infrastructure needed to successfully administer royalties/participations for all of WDIG/DIMG’s business units. • Managed contract administration to ensure contract and royalty compliance. • Collaborated with legal department by reviewing and providing comments to all contract drafts with royalty obligations. • Partnered closely with internal business units on new initiatives to provide clear explanations of upcoming royalty obligations. • Partnered with third party content providers to insure a smooth process flow of information, calculations and acted as a resource to explain the numbers behind their royalty statements. • Established and enforced company policies and procedures. • Took the lead in establishing relationships with key contacts throughout the enterprise to leverage systems and practices that enabled the royalty administration function to work smoothly. • Assisted in development and testing of new internal revenue & royalty obligation system. • Managed team of financial analysts. • Accountable for completeness of revenue and royalty reporting. • Reviewed monthly journal entries and monthly/quarterly royalty statements. • Partnered with regional accounting teams to ensure proper treatment of revenue and expense journal entries. • Prepared and reviewed monthly management package with Finance team. • Participated in third party audits and collaborated with legal to ensure that accounting principles and processes were within compliance. • Collaborated with Sales team and distributors to improve upon reporting standards which improved upon royalty compliance.
Warner Music GroupArtist Royalty Manager
Jan. 2004 - Jan. 2006Managed over eight hundred royalty statements relating to artist, producer and various third party royalty participants.
• Warner Bros. Records catalogue artists
• Various Warner Bros. Records & Reprise Records Nashville artists
• Various Warner Bros. Records & Reprise Records “super star” artists/projects Administered royalty provisions of artist, producer and third party agreements.
Audited royalty statements on a quarterly and/or semi-annual basis to ensure accuracy.
Collaborated with the Legal department with calculation of recording budget of current projects.
Assisted Finance department with expenditure forecasts.
Liased with Rhino Entertainment in connection with artist royalty rate & account status research.
Interacted with senior management and outside artist/producer representatives.
Warner Bros. RecordsManager, Business Affairs/Legal
Jan. 1998 - Jan. 2004Drafted and negotiated various types of contracts.
• Artist recording agreements
• Producer agreements
• Synchronization licenses
• Talent & Location releases
• Third-Party Gratis Licenses
• Video Production agreements Coordinated the administration of recording agreements with senior management and artist/producer representatives.
Handled the legal clearance of images embodied within audio-visual works.
Managed all gratis master and video use requests.
Researched rights to catalog materials.
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