About the Role
To deliver tasks and processes in support of ICE Services’ critical monthly financial distribution service to its customers, including planning, scheduling, and completion of quality control checks on all distributions. This is a temporary position, limited to a 1-year contract, with a start date as soon as possible.
Responsibilities
- Lead ICE Services commitments to customers for online royalty distribution, reconciling system output and performing quality control checks.
- Review distribution schedules, completing specific checks and reconciliations with high accuracy.
- Reconcile, review, and clear down balance sheet accounts related to Royalty Creditors.
- Assist with customer queries regarding monthly distributions.
- Complete reconciliations for distribution accounts and adhere to strict deadlines.
- Review bank payment files, completing specific checks for accuracy and unusual activity.
- Communicate issues to the Finance Director/Senior Finance Analyst and liaise with support teams as needed.
- Prepare finance journals as required.
- Support the team in completing year-end and internal audit requests.
- Perform ad hoc tasks, including analysis of finance and distribution systems.
Requirements
- Excellent financial modelling skills and experience.
- Excellent data gathering, reporting, and analysis skills.
- Excellent Excel skills (e.g., pivot tables, V-Lookups).
- Strong Stakeholder Engagement.
- Experience in the use of accounting systems and accounting principles.
- Experience with financial planning and reporting systems, such as Cognos BI, is highly advantageous.
- Experience within an analytical role and/or a high-volume transactional company is desirable.
- Self-motivated with good organizational and communication skills.
- Exceptional attention to detail.
- Ability to act corporately and work effectively across organizational boundaries.
- Ability to build effective liaisons that deliver high standards, collaborative working, and integrated solutions.
- Recognize the relationship between own work and the objectives of the team and wider business.
- Ability to work on own initiative and in conjunction with key individuals across different teams.
- Intellectual flexibility to grasp complex issues and data patterns quickly.
- Imagination, flair, tenacity, flexibility, and innovation.
- Ability to promote and support innovative thinking and a flexible approach to problem-solving.
- Consider opportunities that add value to the business and meet organizational goals.
- Directly influence the organization by striving to continuously improve through challenging the status quo.
- Critically evaluate information to identify potential errors and check for completeness.
Skills
- Financial modelling
- Data gathering
- Reporting
- Analysis
- Excel (pivot tables, V-Lookups)
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Accounting systems
- Accounting principles
- Financial planning systems
- Reporting systems
- Cognos BI
- Organizational skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
Location
- UK
- Germany
- Sweden
Work Type
- Temporary
- 1-year contract
- Flexible working (time and/or place)
Experience Level
- Analytical role experience desirable
- High volume transactional company experience desirable
Benefits
- Competitive local benefits
- Flexible working
- Mental and physical health initiatives
- Corporate pension scheme
- Comprehensive training and development opportunities
- Industry insider events
- Team socials
- Company events
- Enhanced holiday allowance
About the Company
- ICE Services is a music technology company built by rightsholders, for rightsholders.
- We simplify the complexities of the music royalty chain through an innovative suite of licensing, processing, and copyright services, enabling customers to accurately and efficiently compensate songwriters and composers for the use of their works.
- A joint venture between PRS, STIM, and GEMA, ICE Services is the result of a big vision for the industry that harnesses years of combined experience in the multi-territory music market.
- Serving over 330,000 rightsholders and leveraging a copyright database comprising 55 million musical works, ICE Services’ operations touch 250+ territories to distribute more than €1bn in royalties per year, with a total of over €5bn distributed to date.
Equal Opportunity
- We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and any other protected characteristic.
- We are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to candidates with disabilities. Please speak to our recruitment team and we will work with you to make reasonable adjustments to ensure you can perform at your best throughout your application.
