Music Publishing Payment Operations

Apple•Culver City, CA

18h

About The Position

The people here at Apple don’t just create products — they create the kind of wonder that’s revolutionized entire industries! It’s the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do, from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple, and help us leave the world better than we found it! Apple’s Music Publishing Payment Operations team is responsible for the flow of royalty payments and reporting to rights holders around the world. In addition to close operational partnership with music publishers and collection societies, you will collaborate with Apple’s legal, commercial, finance, product and engineering teams to support Apple Music, Apple TV+, Fitness+ and iTunes Downloads, which includes our music store as well as the music we sell and rent in TV shows, movies, ringtones, and our locker service, iTunes Match. We focus on getting the big ideas right, but our love is in the details. We have a keen eye for finding the right path forward despite haziness or uncertainty. We love to learn and solve complex problems, and we're always asking why and why not in the pursuit of excellence. Does this sound like you? If so, we'd love to hear from you. Our team is responsible for Apple’s music publishing royalty reporting, accruals and payments. We are not a finance team, but our work is tightly aligned with Apple’s finance organization. We find creative solutions to translate complex commercial agreements into efficient royalty operations that scale globally. As a member of the dedicated publishing operations team at one of the world’s largest music services, you will build and support the critical infrastructure of the global music ecosystem.

Requirements

Excellent organizational skills and rigorous attention to detail.
Effective communication with internal and external partners.
Experience performing analysis in Excel and creating spreadsheet models.
Understanding of GAAP and other accounting principles and/or finance experience with payment processing.
Experience with SAP or other financial systems to validate payments and balances.
Able to work as part of a distributed global team.
Music publishing royalty payment experience.
Experience defining repeatable processes that reduce and ideally eliminate human error.
Cross-functional influence; strong personal skills to translate requirements between teams.
Bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in business, accounting, finance, or engineering or equivalent industry experience.

Responsibilities

Reconcile invoices and communicate issues both internally and externally.
Build financial models, including cost estimates and other forecasting.
Define pricing models and work with Finance to accrue for music publishing related costs.
Create and manage large spreadsheets, potentially with dozens of tabs and cross-dependencies.
Reconcile account balances and provide accounting statements to partners.
Contribute to process improvement; help continuously improve our product.
Define solutions that can work either regionally or globally; build consensus to help drive adoption.
Contribute operational requirements to the Legal and Commercial teams.
Answer external partner invoice related inquiries, onboarding new partners and educating them on self-service tools.
Work closely with IT to identify and resolve production issues.
Define test cases and perform user acceptance testing (UAT).