Matt Blum Email & Phone Number

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

-Lead team of 50+ employees grouped into various business units across North America, South America, Central America and India. Business units include: Physical Retail, Synchronization, Digital, Merch/Touring, Credit/Collections, Cash Application and Customer ServiceAll Portfolios ($4 billion+ annually): accounts receivable, bad debt reporting, cash forecasting/application, SOX compliance/control ownership, audit reporting/remediation, fraud prevention, reporting and strategic continuous improvement initiativesDigital ($2.5 billion+ annually): D2C cash reconciliation, eCommerce, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), DSP deal awareness and collection, etc.Label Services ($500 million+ annually): touring reconciliations, new business ventures (metaverse, etc.), brand sponsorship/partnership, etc.Physical ($1 billion+ annually): deduction management, credit/risk reviews, sales support, etc.- Serve as primary SME (subject-matter expert) for Order to Cash/Finance in Financial Implementation Transition (FIT): User Acceptance Testing (UAT), data cleansing, data harmonization, future-state system design including scoping of automated revenue tool-Act as OTC lead and point of contact for acquisitions, mergers and new lines of business; responsible for successful integration of Uproxx LLC, HHDX, IMGN Media, 300 Entertainment, 10k Projects LLC, etc.-Manage systematic sales file approvals, seeing that revenue gets posted properly and allocated down to the appropriate artist-level coding, in order for royalties to be paid out. -Oversee synchronization revenue project; have collected $1.6M+ of funds that had previously been written off by various sync department groups. Partner with Warner Chappell Music, Warner Chappell Production Music, and Visual Media Licensing teams

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

-Manage the "Label Services" portfolio, earning an annual revenue of more than $250 million, and consisting of Brand Partnerships, Touring Merchandise Sales, Synch Revenue, Digital Advertisers, etc.-Serve as finance contact on mergers and acquisitions team, managing project plans for system implementations andupgrades, ensuring all involved understand upstream and downstream impact of decisions and changes-Lead team of two onshore employees and five offshore employees-Assist AR integration and testing from SAP to S4Hana as a part of global restructuring project-Re-designed and rolled-out updated manual invoicing process in order to streamline efforts across domestic affiliates-Centralize all receivables activity from all labels and digital advertisers into one streamlined effort, serving as the onshore finance point of escalation-Act as finance representative for organization-wide project initiatives-Assist Sr. Director in project intake, ensuring departments follow proper security/compliance standards

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

-Collected and reconciled all managed touring accounts for all artists across all domestic affiliates-Prepared, analyzed and updated month-close, quarter-close and year-end bad debt reports-Provided quarter-end supplemental schedules to corporate finance team-Coded and applied incoming payments to proper customer accounts

Nashville, Tennessee

-Processed and issued outgoing payments to vendors, artists and third parties-Created, maintained and organized SharePoint workflows across the organization-Performed various remediation tasks for Internal and External Audit

Nashville, Tn

• Manage all print music inventories• Constantly seek out ways to improve internal systems, procedures, and processes as well as ways to reduce costs• Add pertinent information to Oracle (IE vendor, page counts, binding types, etc.)

Nashville, Tn

• Managed finished goods and component inventory levels for both Records and Word Music• Coordinated various inventory management spreadsheets in order to stay ahead of future purchase orders• Created and maintained strong relationships with representatives at manufacturing plant, as well as representatives at various vendors

Nashville, Tn

• Able to speak with adults and have fulfilling conversations with prospective donors• Must be comfortable asking for monetary donations • Raised $2,740.48 during first semester employed

Nashville, Tn

• Organized and made worksheets to be attached to the Belmont University webpage• Answered the phone and directed calls based on specific needs• General Office Duties• Assisted the Provost

Nashville, Tn

• Managed & updated social media accounts for various clients, events & television programs• Designed website banners and images for CMT Music Videos

Nashville, Tn

• Updated the Brand Management Artist calendar daily• Created marketing plans for each artist in current album cycle• Facilitated radio mail-outs to stations all over the country with different marketing materials• Organized artist and employee travel itineraries • Worked together during brain storming meetings for marketing assets for albums, award shows, etc.• Organized marketing materials and inventory of CDs on hand• Researched new ways to reach fans and gain momentum in the market place

Nashville, Tn

• Compiled airplay statistics and record sales from Soundscan and Mediabase• Developed an online filing system to track promotional packages • Systematically designed a promotional filing system • Created marketing spread sheets for accounts, such as Target• Organized promotional CDs and systematically place in a filing system • Pulled artist sell sheets/artist art work for release announcement• Collected visibility from social media to show artist’s labels

Park Ridge, Il

• Successfully remained a valued member of the staff through many management changes • Trusted with managerial duties including counting money and making food orders • Received perfect scoring on multiple secret shopper encounters

Park Ridge, Il

• Worked individually with special needs students as well as the entire classroom. Main focus placed on behavioral, social, and academic issues.• Brought a student with no typing experience up to his appropriate grade level. • Sought after by staff and parents to work with specific, high needs students

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Music Business, Junior

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma National Business Honor Society, Alpha Chi National Honor Society, Bruin Recruiters.

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