Music Publishing Payment Operations

Adweek; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 108,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple’s Music Publishing Payment Operations team manages royalty reporting, accruals, and payments for rights holders worldwide. You’ll collaborate with legal, finance, product, and engineering to support Apple Music, TV+, Fitness+, and iTunes services, building scalable royalty operations that translate complex agreements into efficient processes.

The role emphasizes defining repeatable processes, cross-functional influence, and rigorous attention to detail, with opportunities to work

Qualifications

• Music publishing royalty payment experience.
• Experience defining repeatable processes that reduce human error.
• Cross-functional influence; translate requirements between teams.
• Excellent organizational skills and rigorous attention to detail.
• Effective communication with internal and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Reconcile invoices and communicate issues internally and externally.
• Build financial models, including cost estimates and forecasting.
• Define pricing models and work with Finance to accrue for music publishing costs.
• Create and manage large spreadsheets with many tabs and cross-dependencies.
• Reconcile account balances and provide statements to partners.
• Contribute to process improvements and product enhancements.
• Define regional or global solutions; build adoption through consensus.
• Provide operational input to Legal and Commercial teams.
• Onboard new partners and explain self-service tools to partners.
• Collaborate with IT to identify and resolve production issues.
• Define test cases and perform UAT.

Skills

Music publishing royalty payment

Process standardization

Cross-functional collaboration

Attention to detail

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in business, accounting, finance, or engineering

Job description

Summary

Posted: Sep 27, 2024

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number:200570025

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.

Description

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.

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).

We are a diverse team coming from a wide variety of backgrounds, including a professional jazz musician, an IT consultant, a designer, an engineer and an accountant. What unique skills can you bring to the team?

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.
• Excellent organizational skills and rigorous attention to detail.
• Effective communication with internal and external partners.
• Able to work as part of a distributed global team
• Bachelor’s degree or master’s degree in business, accounting, finance, or engineering or equivalent industry experience.

Pay & Benefits

• At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $108,200 and $165,200, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

  Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses - including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits.

  Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

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• Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.