Universal Music Group 2024 Summer Internship Program: Brand & Label Opportunities: Operations

We are UMG, the Universal Music Group. We are the world’s leading music company. In everything we do, we are committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship. We own and operate a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries. We identify and develop recording artists and songwriters, and we produce, distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to delight and entertain fans around the world.
 

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:

• Playlisting tracking 

• TikTok tracking, new releases

• Full roster social listening 

• Create ad hoc reports for team as needed 

• Examine trends of different types of songs and subgenres 

• Deliver data focused projects to answer ongoing business challenges in the form of new datasets, dashboards and visualizations.

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. They will then apply it to an upcoming Verve artist and make recommendations based on their findings.

Royalties:

Royalties - Process inbound royalty statements, maintain royalty rate setups, and report royalty statements to our writers and artists.

Track & maintain budgets for marketing and recording costs related to our artist's projects. Assist with forecasting process for label internal and external reporting. Process inbound royalty statements for our artists and writers. Assist with royalty rate setup by reviewing artist contractual terms.

Sync:

• Monthly TV News updates

• Track film and television release date

•  Research publishing information in R2 and CLA

• Find clips of syncs in use

• Help updating our artist grid and roster

• Import catalog songs into DISCO

• Manage and updating metadata in our DISCO account

• Source new client contact data

Tour (Bravado):

Bravado Tour Department:  We handle merchandise sales around the globe working with many UMG offices and teams.  It is an extremely fast paced environment, with things changing daily with multiple projects happening at the same time. 

• Manage Itinerary database

• Confirm and receive show settlement reports for finance team.

• Create/maintain excel spreadsheets for various projects.

• Minor creative worked related price signs and merchandise displays.

Touring & Events:

This is a unique, multi-faceted internship which will assist the entire Touring & Special Events team with a variety of projects, administrative and operational support tasks which will illustrate the fundamental building blocks needed to begin a career in the Touring business. This is an extremely dynamic department and an internship with this team will teach resourcefulness, poise, humor in the face of challenges, and the ability to work quickly, calmly, and accurately under deadline.   

• Research new venues and event locations

• Update internal documents such as concert calendars and resource tracking grids in a shared drive.

• Help with on-site show and event coverage as needed

• Assist with production of special events, including liaising with vendors and processing invoices

• Day to Day office administrative duties

*For all departments: Other duties as assigned 

Bring Your VIBE:

• Strong attention to detail  
• Strong organizational skills and efficiency 
• Ability to multitask and meet tight deadlines in fast-paced, high-pressure environments 
• High level of integrity  
• Discretion in handling confidential information  
• Professionalism in dealing with senior professionals inside and outside the company 
• A “can-do” attitude 
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) 
• Customer focused
• Ability to think critically and question processes,
• Basic understanding of financial statements (specifically for Finance roles)
• Enthusiasm for handling large volumes of data and analyzing information (specifically for Data/Analytics & Global Admin roles)
• SQL &Python (specifically for Data/Analytics roles)
• Interest in music licensing/clearance (specifically for Film & TV Clearance/Licensing roles)

Disclaimer: This job description only provides an overview of job responsibilities that are subject to change.

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Job Category:

Internships

Salary Range:

$13-25 per hour

The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include, as applicable, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.  All candidates are encouraged to apply.