Chris Phillips Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, United States

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Manage Accounts Receivable/Accounts Payable and serve as primary Finance contact for clients
• Create monthly revenue reports and collect outstanding AR
• Review contracts for billing updates and term renewals for royalty, payments, and data services clients
• Create templates and facilitate data delivery for RAI music metadata clients

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Reconcile third party statements to contract terms
• Analyze quarterly and annual sales patterns with regard to customer, title and format

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Onboard customers and contract terms into MediaMorph system
• Test and approve MediaMorph processing and upload resulting statements into accounting database
• Audit incoming international third party statements and summarize findings for executive management

United States

• Advise Finance, Business Affairs and Information Technology on royalty-related issues
• Complete special historical research outside scope of current royalty manager

Greater New York City Area

• Review Artist royalty statements and cost application for semi-annual accounting
• Research and respond to client inquiries
• Audit contract language and statement application for Business Affairs
• Supervise staff of 1 manager and 6 royalty analysts

Los Angeles, CA/ New York, NY

• Oversee royalty processing and distribution to all participating third parties, including those for American Idol, The Price Is Right, and various other reality programs, game shows and made-for-TV movies
• Work closely with Licensing department on new contracts and brand revenue participation
• Review and provide notes on optioned pilots for television development team
• Reconcile monthly banking activity across all corporate finance

Los Angeles, CA

• Establish workflow and process advertising revenue share payments for all MySpace divisions
• Review statements for accurate reflection of opening balances, advance application and cost deductions
• Design statement layout for all MySpace revenue share reporting
• Interpret and apply contract terms, rates and reporting requirements

Los Angeles, CA

• Serve as Copyright liaison to label Business Affairs, Finance, Audit, Production, and A&R Admin
• Oversee workflow from mechanical licensing to quarterly royalty payments on physical, digital and mobile product for Island/Def Jam label group and all video releases across UMG
• Accrue monthly royalty expense and analyze variances; reconcile monthly sales reports to system upload
• Review quarterly Pending royalty report; prepare monthly and quarterly expense forecasting
• Direct research projects including litigation/audit support, licensing history, and financial reporting analysis
• Supervise staff of 1 Senior Manager, 2 Managers, 3 Specialists and 4 licensing/royalty analysts

Los Angeles, CA

• Oversee royalty processing, financial reporting, and publisher inquiries for all Polygram labels
• Redesign workflow across Polygram and MCA label groups and maintain data integrity in royalty system
• Manage staff of 8 royalty analysts

Los Angeles, CA

• Process songwriter publishing licenses
• Analyze and research songwriter, artist, and producer contracts, as well as quarterly sales data

Los Angeles, CA

• Contributed editorials and features on LGBT film, television and pop culture
• Interviewed LGBT artists and filmmakers

Los Angeles, CA

• Oversee domestic theatrical releases of acquired independently produced films
• Promote theatrical releases with both national publicists and national and regional publications
• Direct home video distribution to wholesalers, retailers and catalog customers

Los Angeles, CA

• Critiqued current theatrical releases

Speech Communication

Activities and Societies: University of Texas Speech Team 4-Time National Semifinalist, Individual Events 3-Time National Quarterfinalist.

Television Drama Writing, Meditative Writing

Education record