Analyst, Licensing Finance – FP&A

The role

This FP&A role sits within the Licensing Finance group and focuses on the financial side of major label agreements. The analyst turns negotiated contract terms into cost forecasts and margin views, working across licensing, legal, royalty operations, data, and product teams. It is positioned at the junction of deal strategy and day-to-day royalty payouts.

What you would do

• Assess global major label agreements alongside licensing, accounting, and legal counterparts
• Construct and maintain financial models with scenario and sensitivity testing
• Convert intricate contract mechanics into plain financial consequences and leadership-ready decks
• Feed deal-specific terms into the royalties forecasting cycle
• Review monthly and quarterly royalty and margin results against forecast and explain the gaps
• Work with data and engineering to sharpen forecast precision and cost transparency
• Define and monitor KPIs tracking deal performance and long-run cost trends
• Help build automations and analysis tooling that speed up deal work and forecasting

What they asked for

• Two or more years in analytically intensive work such as consulting, banking, deal analysis, strategic finance, or analytics
• Advanced SQL and experience with large, complicated datasets
• Solid financial modeling with a grasp of scenario analysis and trade-off reasoning
• Hands-on use of AI assistants to boost analytical output
• Careful attention to detail with good judgment on priorities and what matters materially
• Able to explain complex analysis clearly to non-technical audiences
• Genuine interest in music business and licensing economics