Finance and Legal Operations - Senior Leader

Job Description

Job Description Believe is currently looking for a someone to Senior leader - Finance and Legal operations as part of its Finance and Legal Ops team in India. The person directly reports to the Central Director of Operations based in Mumbai, India. The person shall be in charge to oversee and supervise the finance and legal ops team for Believe and its entities which includes TuneCore and Ishtar Music based in India office. The person shall have the following job responsibilities in the respective domain: Finance Operations: You will be working closely with the central Finance operations team performing the below tasks: Develop and improve all internal collection and collection controls and processes. Share best practices in trade receivables and collections. Supervise an invoicing and cash collection team responsible for following up with customers and monitoring the aging of the aged balance. Contribute to the establishment of effective relationships with all internal partners: the commercial, legal, accounting and management control departments. Improve and reduce payment process times with international customers. This will also include revenue controls of digital and physical platforms along with neighbouring rights revenue collections with publishing societies. Meeting Audit Expectations Make recommendations to management regarding bad debts and effectively maintaining billing management. Contribute to the initiatives of the royalties team and the believe company. Management of the lettering of payments received to invoices. Participation in monthly closings with all accuracy of data with regards to invoices, billing, paid status, and aging balance Participation in the production of performance indicators Data analysis and proposal for accounting solutions Working on Publishing and licensing reports and ensuring the statements are well prepared for the finance to raise invoices. Communication to third party clients and sub-labels, accounting, etc. Legal Operations: You will be working closely with the central CAM (Contract and Account management) team and shall be performing the below tasks: Reviewing, validating, and electronically signing contracts, contractual annexes and amendments for LAS and Artist Services. Checking producer data and legal entities in contracts as per KYC procedures. Checking contractual terms and related approvals. Act as business partner to support Sales teams in the contractual workflow (CLM and Ticketing Support). Analysis and processing of contractual deviations from standard clauses. First-level analysis of contract operability to ensure proper execution of the contractual commitments. Manage the contractual workarounds by respecting SLAs and committing to improve KPIs and Signature lead times. Management of contractual data in our back-office tools (Account settings, Royalty tool settings in "Details"). Processing of ad-hoc requests to assist sales/legal teams (contract migration, amendment campaigns/correction of contractual data, onboardings etc.). Qualifications Master s degree in operations or finance/legal or Business management is preferred. Proven team management experience is a must. Collaboration & Relationship management with Internal s