Rene Bechor Email & Phone Number

Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

Responsible for Collecting data from various sources and develop, prepare, and distribute reports to all stakeholders. Ensure the quality and accuracy of content data used for reports. Troubleshooting. Analyse content, reporting figures and ensure content reports are available timeously and accurately to licensors and other stakeholders as per the commercial agreements

South Africa

South Africa

17 years Music expertise. Music specialist and Music Software System management and also setup.

Sandton

Production Accountant / RoyaltiesPurpose of the Job: To liaise with producers, reporting on the financial performance of their movies in the South African market and ensuring timeous and accurate payment to them in accordance with distribution agreements.MAIN OUTPUTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES Royalty Management Application• Verification of defined contractual terms and reporting parameters per standard agreement requirements.• Upload contractual calculation parameters per title into royalty management system• Verify that payments are equivalent to specified contract conditions at month end.Administration• Liaise with producers to resolve queries.• Distribute invoices from Vendors on marketing activities to the SKD marketing team.• Upload overages paid into royalty management system.• Reconcile unreleased title marketing costs.• Assist with year-end audit function and ad-hoc Producer audits.MAIN OUTPUTS AND RESPONSIBILITIESReporting• SONY and DISNEY monthly producer statements.• Manual local monthly producer statements.• Royalty management generated producer statements (monthly and/or quarterly).• Reconcile Sony and Disney’s system requirements on payments against Ster Kinekor Distribution reports to be paid i.e. analyse and motivate the differences• Ensure all marketing costs are allocated correctly and in line with contractual agreement with producer.• Release all costs generated by marketing in SAP.• Reconcile recoupable general ledger account

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Royalty Accountant and Publishers ManagerResponsible for the maintenance of correct composer royalty accounting. This role entailed keeping and maintaining accurate records for local, composers, local admin deals and international sub-publishers. Responsible for the distribution of royalties on a bi-annual basis for both Gallo Publishing and Record Company .Duties & Responsibilities: • Processing Local & Foreign Income • Royalty Processing every six months• Withholding Tax• Royalty Payments Local & International• Capturing of metadata and workflows with current royalty systems• Analytics & Reporting • Royalties Queries (Local & International)• Assisting Copyrights Clerks with their Daily Duties/Queries• Liaising with Local& Overseas Sub-Publishers; Composers & Record Companies• Input and assistance within the A&R role and music content creation and marketing• Forms part of current publishing boards/member representing GMP (MPA, SAMRO, Capasso) • Responsible for current domestic & international Publishers and Sub Publishers as going concerns.• New Business opportunities for GMP and future growth (Catalogue admin and signing writers)• Overseeing the library Music and Synch position within the GMP roles• Sourcing & generating new opportunities & revenue growth.• Overseeing bi annual royalty reporting and administration with GMP/LSD Accounting and processing with relevant GMG support staff• Involvement in budgeting and forecasts with department heads

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Manual Calculate Costing Analyses on iTunes, Believe and CCA Income vs Royalties paid• Reports : Example All Times Sales on royalties System vs iTunes or Believe sales• Responsible for Royalty’s processing and System administration• Extract Sales file’s from Itunes, Believe on a monthly and quarterly basis• Prepare and Upload All Digital Sales data reports from iTunes, Believe and CCA, and physical from IMD sales files onto Royalty system• Capture/Upload; Artist details, ISRC Codes, Catalogue data, Correct Local and International Publishers information’s etc from Metadata Files and Stat Notices• Process all Physical and Digital Royalties According New and existing Contracts• Reconcile all Royalty Statements• Email all Statements to Distro’s , Artist, Licensors and Producers• Handle all Queries

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Capture all Customer and Supplier Invoices on Pastel• Petty Cash Recon• Cheque Requisitions• Recons• Jnl entries• VAT 201 Calculation and submission• Payee Calculation and submission• Customer Statements• Follow up outstanding Invoices

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Check all cue sheets against Scripts• Sign Cue Sheets off before it is submitted to the SABC• Assist with calculating and submitting Monthly Accruals• Act as a liaison with SAMRO• Tracking Royalty Income from Samro...Reconciling Cue sheets submitted vs Income received from SAMRO

Johan

• Report findings on TYPE C queries to Quality Control/Query Resolution Manager within time allocated per query• Process royalty and performance adjustments timeously• Compile daily/weekly statistics and reporting to Quality Control/Query Resolution Manager

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Part of the Integration Team during the takeover of EMI Music SA Pty Ltd by Universal Music Pty Ltd• Responsible for the planning and integrating Royalty data from EMI Music SA Pty Ltd and Universal Music Royalty System, facilitate and hand over off Royalty Contracts and process.• Standing in for the Royalty Manager while she was away on maternity leave• Assist with KLEEK data analyses

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

This position is responsible for managing the royalties department and staff, ensuring that all aspects of royalty payments and related functions are achieved accurately and in accordance with agreed schedules.ROYALTY ACCOUNTING• Responsible for timeous accounting procedures, preparing appropriate accounting statements as contractually required.o Quarterly, six monthly, off quarterly and Copyright Royalties• Authorize all Royalty payments both locally and internationally.• Preparation and payment of all Foreign Licence Royalty Payments.• Prepare and approve manual royalty payments and related royalty journal entries• Follow up on monies due to the company from all Third Party Companies.• Once income is received recalculation summaries; and reconciliations are done and payments to the various parties are implemented.• Process all Synchronisation Income.• Calculate and pay Withholding Tax • Responsible for monthly sales interface procedure• Verify Sales figures and consolidate with Royalty Payable Report on Navision.• Calculate and Journalise all monthly royalty accruals • Reconciling the Royalties Ledger to the General Ledger on a monthly basis.• Reconciliation of the following:o Artist Royalty Account, Copyright Royalty Account and Royalty Income Account on a monthly basis• Analyze and journalise License and Artist Advance Provisions. • Liaison with Internal and External Auditors

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

To support the Sales Team, National Sales Manager and MD by administrating the sales of the company through point of sale, order taking and ensuring effective dispatch of products• Compile and issue non technical quotations to External Customers• Follow through on Progress of Customer Orders• Deal with all queries related to the Customer Orders Ensure that the following Documents are received timeously from Field Sales Engineers• Project Sheets• Project Time Sheets• Customer Visit Reports• Travel Log Sheets• Expense Forms• Book Delegates for Training on in house computer system-Topvis• E-mail Training letters to customers• Follow up on Invoices relating to Training• Take minutes of Sales Meetings• Type Minutes of the meeting• Arrange accommodations for Field Sales Engineer• Implementation of the budget plan through the application of budget controls• Receive all Customer Call Reports from Field Sales Engineers • Create weekly and Monthly analyses on all time sold vs. time Budget in a graph format• Compile monthly Order Income report, per sales rep, month to date and year to date performance • Prepare detailed margin analyses on all orders received and InvoicedService Department• Compile and issue quotations non technical quotations• Follow up on all Request for Quotations• Check and sign off all quotes in National Sales Manager ‘s absence• Process orders received on in-house computer system• Prepare all documents for approval and invoicing• Follow through on Progress of Customer Orders• Deal with all queries related to the Service Department• Coordinate and Control the Service Department Year scheduler• Loading and controlling service job cards on the Job Logger• Log and monitor all jobs and work in progress on Forecast Sheet• Manage and Coordinate the process of all Repairable equipment receivedAssist Accounts Manager

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

To provide a cost control service on capital projects implemented by the Combustion Group; by means of effective cost control measures, forecasting and through accurate reporting.• Coordinate and Control the Service Department Year scheduler• Interact with Service Technicians and Manager to ensure timeous submission of information such as Service Call sheets and Time sheets.• Loading and controlling service job cards on Pastel• Log and monitor all jobs and work in progress on Forecast Sheet• Monitor and secure approval of all expenses • Allocate and capture all supplier invoices and all other job related costs on Pastel.• Following up on all outstanding customer purchase order numbers• Issuing all COD customers with accurate Pro Forma Invoices and following up on monies not yet received.• Generate invoices; and supply Accounts Receivable with all relevant back up documentation.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

This position is responsible for receiving and maintaining contracts and processing royalty calculations and payments. This includes interpreting contracts and entering them in the Royalties Payable System, processing advance payments, royalty payments and royalty related costs, checking royalty statements, researching royalty inquiries, and preparing detailed, comprehensive royalty analyses for Financial Director, Business affairs Director, Artist and Producers.• Reconciliation; cheque and EFT payments of Royalty earnings both locally and internationally.• Payments from Petty cash Float• Following up on monies due to the company from all Third Party Companies.• Once income is received recalculation summaries; and reconciliations are done and payments to the various parties are implemented.• Daily and monthly sales interface procedure• Initiate Interface extraction of sales and stock information on a daily basis from the live Gallo system into target Royalty System.• Verify Sales figures and consolidate with Royalty History Files.• Resultant correction of errors and price discrepancies.• Prepare detailed sales reports in support of preliminary statements.• Follow-up and correct any abnormalities before final statements are issued• Reconciling the Royalties Ledger to the General Ledger on a monthly basis.• Reversing monthly accruals at quarter end and making sure that the actual liability is booked from Royalty System• Liaising with auditors prior to paying overseas royalties, artists, composers and producers.• Actively updating each client’s account with movements by means of journal entries as they happen i.e. cheques issued or written back; advances on royalties; stock purchases; third party income etc.• Preparing quarterly Debit Balance Report for Financial DirectorCONTRACTSADVANCE AND COSTSGENERAL OFFICE DUTIESSUPERVISORY DUTIES

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

To provide a comprehensive support and administrative assistance to the sales managers, account managers and customersCONTRACTSCUSTOMER SERVICEPRICINGOPERATING COSTCAPITAL EXPENDITURETENDERSCREDITORS PAYMENTS