Assistant, A&R Administration

Job Description

Job Description:

Job Title: Assistant, A&R Administration

A little bit about our team:

At the intersection of A&R, Business Affairs and Finance, A&R Administration at Elektra Music Group oversees the recording process from a business perspective. This includes administering all A&R related budgets and handling recording-related legal issues and logistics. Further, the department serves as the primary interface between A&R/Marketing/Business Affairs and Production in the creation and release of all commercial and promotional products.

This position reports to the SVP of A&R Administration and Director of A&R Administration.

Your role:

If paying attention to detail, anticipating anything that might go wrong, learning from your mistakes, and getting things done sounds just like you, this is your opportunity. You will work behind the scenes, in a fast-paced team environment.

Here you'll get to:
• Complete general administrative duties: answer phones, prepare and submit expense reports, calendar management, filing, scanning, etc.
• Coordinate artist travel, including flights, lodging, and ground transportation and the tracking of the associated spend.
• Process invoices, including the creation of vendors and coding of invoices in our financial systems.
• Correspond with vendors to issue purchase orders and resolve outstanding invoice issues.
• Arrange tracking, mixing, and mastering sessions.
• Draft transmittal letters and form legal documents, including Work For Hire and Remix agreements.
• Coordinate the creation of project numbers and royalty accounts with the Royalty Department.
• Assist supervisors with day to day management of recording projects.

About you:
• Highly organized, resourceful, have an attention to detail and are rigorous about proofing your own work (and occasionally the work of others!).
• Prior assistant experience including answering phones, booking travel and handling T&E.
• Calm under pressure.
• Hard worker for whom no task is too small.
• Excellent phone and communication skills.
• Comfortable with spreadsheets, numbers and math.
• Self-motivated and able to complete tasks independently.
• Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook competent.
• Have a genuine interest in learning the music industry

We'd love it if you also had:
• Some knowledge of the recording processes a plus.
• This is a position for someone who likes to work behind the scenes and as part of a team.
• Experience with Concur for expenses
• Completed an undergraduate music business program.

About us:

Elektra Music Group was launched in 2018 as a stand-alone music company within Warner Music Group. Its roots extend back to 1950, when Jac Holzman launched the iconic Elektra label in his college dorm room. Today, that same entrepreneurial, independent spirit is the driving force behind each of the unique labels that make up the core of the Elektra Music Group: Elektra, Fueled By Ramen, and Roadrunner. The company's adventurous, eclectic roster includes culture-defining artists such as Brandi Carlile, Coheed and Cambria, Fitz and the Tantrums, Gojira, Kaleo, Korn, Panic! At The Disco, Paramore, Slipknot, Tones and I, Twenty One Pilots, and others.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g34ke9-3-137-174-216-42 in your application.