ICE and its Role in the Music Industry
ICE is a purpose-driven organisation, founded by rightsholders, for rightsholders.
We exist to support songwriters, enabling societies and publishers to accurately compensate them when their work is used internationally.
We operate at the exciting intersection of technology, music, and data. Since our 2010 launch, we have paid billions to rightsholders through deep expertise in Copyright, Processing and Licensing.
Our collaboration with stakeholders across the industry delivers best practice, new processes & innovative solutions for better royalty flows.
Strategic investment in technology enables us to process trillions of streams, to deliver the maximum revenue for rightsholders.
About the Role
In partnership with the business, take responsibility for the development, management and coordination of the business unit(s) budget/forecasts, financial reports and KPIs.
Including:
- Collaborating with other team members to successfully produce the monthly reporting pack to allow for robust tracking of overall company costs and headcount to feed into the monthly processes.
- Enabling better decision making through insightful and action-orientated management information and trend analysis.
- Providing full financial business support to teams in the business areas supported, including financial assurance of business cases related to strategic change initiatives for these teams.
- Partnering effectively with the business to produce cost budgets and forecasts.
- Proactively seeking opportunities to improve ways of working.
- Supporting with Ad hoc reporting for Finance Operations (Distributions).
Key Responsibilities:
Financial Reporting:
- Assisting with the production of the monthly reporting, driving automation and process improvements where possible.
- As part of the Cost Report being responsible for the analysis of drivers of variances to Budget/Forecast for their business areas.
- Providing accurate financial information to the business areas, as well as to feed into the Corporate Hub reporting deliverables related to these areas.
Junior Business partnering:
- Partnering effectively with their business areas to produce the annual budget and forecasts as well as analysing performance and supporting other ad-hoc requests.
- Working with the business teams to produce monthly variance analysis to succinctly explain the variances to Budget/Forecast.
- Supporting the business areas on managing their budgets, including working with them on solutions for making savings if required.
- Identifying risks and opportunities through insightful and action-oriented management information and trend analysis.
- Understanding and communicating the drivers of performance variances and their implications to Heads of and Directors.
Processes and controls:
- Supporting the monthly business unit area reporting and being responsible for the end-to-end processes in ensuring deadlines are met.
- Ensuring financial controls are implemented and executed.
- Proactively seeking to identify opportunities for process improvement projects within the team to add greater value to analytical, planning and reporting processes.
- Identifying and implementing further opportunities for automation across systems.
Requirements and Qualifications:
- Part-qualified accountant or studying for these qualifications.
- Strong knowledge of accounting principles and practices
- Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
- Strong presentation skills.
- Excellent communication skills – including the ability to identify key messages and summarise complex information to non-finance people.
- Excellent data gathering, reporting and analysis skills.
- Excellent Excel, Word and PowerPoint skills.
What we offer:
- Competitive local benefits based on your location
- We promote flexible working regarding time and/or place
- Both mental and physical health initiatives
- Corporate pension scheme
- Comprehensive training and development opportunities
- Industry insider events, team socials and company events
- Enhanced holiday allowance
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.
