Summer Intern - Program: Brand & Label Opportunities: Operations

Job Description

Program Eligibility:
• Currently enrolled at an accredited two or four-year college/university in the United States, pursing an undergraduate, graduate and/or law degree
• Graduating between Spring 2024-Fall 2026
• Have access to housing and transportation within the designated city (We do not offer housing accommodations)
• Legally authorized to work in the US and will not require sponsorship for employment visa status now or in the future (e.g., H1-B, OPT, etc.)
• Commit to 20-40 hours per week (based on individual business area)

Applications will be reviewed early Spring 2024

UMG Brands & Labels:

Bravado

Capitol Christian Music Group

Capitol Music Group

Def Jam Recordings

Fame House

Island Records

Interscope Geffen A&M Records

Universal Music Enterprises (UMe)

Republic Records

Universal Music Group Nashville

Universal Music Latin Entertainment

Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG)

Verve Label Group

Virgin Music Group

Departments:
• Copy Right Administration
• Data & Analytics
• Film & TV Clearance/Licensing
• Finance & Global Finance
• Global Administration
• Production
• Revenue
• Royalties
• Sync
• Tour
• Touring & Events

Multiple Job Descriptions Listed Below

(All positions onsite: CA, NY, FL, PA, TN)

How You'll CREATE:

Copyright Administration:

The copyright administration team works to verify and enter song data, ensure proper registration at the PROs, solve conflicts and disputes, and support the Publishing department and company as a whole.
• This is a research and data heavy internship in Excel. The successful candidate will be responsible for assisting with song entry, updating our cut songs tracker to ensure they are registered at the PROs with the correct data, chase info if the song is missing, request updates at the PROs to our registrations, perform catalog audits for our writers (lots of work in Excel), and other assignments as required.

Data & Analytics:
Data Analytics is in charge to provide support to multi-departmental sections in the team such as marketing, A&R, commercial, and D2C initiatives by collaborating with analytical reports and strategic recommendations to the success of results of the business area.

Reporting and Analytical Support:
• Develop comprehensive reports to support commercial and marketing strategies.
• Assist in the analysis of A&R (Artists and Repertoire) initiatives to identify trends and opportunities in music acquisition and development.
• Provide data-driven insights for Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) strategies, enhancing customer engagement and sales.

Market and Consumer Data Analysis:
• Support analysis in market trends and consumer behavior to inform strategic decisions.
• Utilize advanced data analytics tools to interpret complex datasets, providing actionable insights for business development.

Competitive Analysis and Industry Benchmarking:
• Support on competitive analysis to benchmark against industry standards.
• -Support in Identify best practices and emerging trends in the music industry, providing insights for strategic planning.

Film & TV Clearance/Licensing:

Synchronization occurs when a musical work is synchronized in timed, linear relation with visual images. Examples of this might be for background, theme, and featured uses in motion pictures, television shows or videogames.

The Universal Music Publishing Film & TV Licensing team receives these synch requests and negotiates the terms/fees for the licenses.
• Data entry of our deals into our licensing system
• Research song rights
• Follow up on payment status of licenses
• Help clear songs for projects
• Administrative duties as needed

Global Administration (UMPG):

Covering core Global Administration functions, interns will be required to assist the following departments during their placement at UMPG:
• Global Data Services
• Global Copyright
• Global Royalty
• Global Compliance
• Regional Administration

The interns will spend time learning and moving between teams, following the administration life cycle from basic system understating to more advanced knowledge of UMPG's administrative systems and processes
• Basic royalty matching and ingestion of data into UMPG core systems
• Song entry, metadata research and enrichment
• Registration of new and amended copyrights with different societies, service providers and partners on a global scale
• Both regularized and bespoke Copyright reporting for internal and external recipients
• Preparation and reconciliation of incoming royalty statements for processing and calculation
• Royalty reporting, helping to assist with financial reconciliation and sign-off
• Analysis of control procedures to ensure UMPG's compliance processes remain effective
• Assistance with engagement calls across other offices and regions
• Work with UMPG's client portal and customer service teams globally to resolve client issues

Finance (UMe):

UMe Finance oversees the US catalog for UMG. Working with various departments for financial support, responsible for planning/forecasting, Compliance, and month end reporting
• Month end close responsibilities
• Building annual corporate plan deck
• Financial/data analysis on various areas of UMe's business
• Ad-hoc financial reports

Global Finance (UMPG):
The global finance team is responsible for the financial reporting and consolidation of the global music publishing results, as well as the oversight of the control environment. Outside of these FP&A duties, the team is responsible for investment analysis related to cash spend for the publishing business (i.e., new songwriter deals, acquisitions, etc.).
• Data entry for financial analysis
• Updating reports for executive leadership
• Research for financial analysis
• Creating ad-hoc reports & presentations as needed
• Running & consolidating reports from systems

Production (UMe):

Production is the product collaboration hub for many UMe teams and outside partners. We work together to deliver physical, digital audio and video assets to and through the Supply Chain.
• Metadata entry for audio and video assets
• Scheduling
• Possibly working with the studio and art departments.
• Compiling and proofreading copy
• QC closed captions

Production (Bravado):

Global Supply chain team overlooking Planning, Product Development, Production and Operations

Revenue:
The revenue team handles all revenue streams ranging from streaming, physical sales, ecommerce, new technology, fan experiences, and merch. We are also very deeply rooted in analytics ranging from pre post release metrics, fan affinities, and global performance assessment. The intern for our department will be fully immersed in all aspect of our department and leave with a solid working knowledge of each.
• As mentioned above, our program features an immersive dive into three primary areas. Streaming, Physical/Ecommerce Sales, and Analytics.
• Our intern will spend a minimum of 2 weeks with each of these teams learning all aspects of that's teams responsibilities.
• Our intern will be responsible for tracking new releases on release day, helping the analytics team gauge performance, and developing strategies for project launches to name a few.
• Lastly, at the beginning of our program, our intern will be given a ''comp'' artist in which they will analyze that project using everything they have learned. The

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rj4mz1-18-217-19-206-42 in your application.