Selina Ali Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

•Managing writer agreement details, with special regard to advances and royalty rates per sales channel •Managing publisher agreement details, with special regard to term, advances and royalty rates •Invoicing of royalties and posting invoices to Sage accounts package •Processing & Analyising royalty statement data when received from publishers into the ‘That’s Rights’ Database. •Producing author/writer payment statements bi-annually as per Licensee royalty statements received for both Primary and Secondary publishers. •Liaising with ‘That’s Rights’ support desk on system issues and currently an integral part of improving and automating the royalties input function and cleansing historical data on internal system. •Streamlining the royalty run process for audit purposes to improve the audit on future royalty runs. •Liaising with the Finance Department on receipts and reconciliation of payments.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Ensure that clients receive comprehensive monthly financial reporting in line withset timeframes• Collecting and analysing settlements from DSPs for all digital music revenue• Ensuring accurate data is supplied on the monthly statements for ingesting intoour in-house portal• Reconciling the digital revenue at month end and liaising with finance forupdates on receipts, payment dates, exchange rates etc• Work with relevant departments to address all client queries in relation to themonthly reporting for both revenue and costs• Interpreting contracts and statements alongside the Head of Digital and Head ofFinance and onboarding of new clients into the reporting and finance system• Ensuring all revenue is allocated correctly to our Rightsholders/Labels• Identifying areas for improvement in existing reporting process and streamliningoverall output

London, England, United Kingdom

• Reconcile, process and distribute royalty data to Merlin members accurately, efficiently and in a timely manner• Perform basic monthly analysis on the royalty reports to be shared with the Merlin team• Process and manage the distribution of trends data to Merlin members• Send regular updates and notifications to Merlin members• Keep track of the scheduling of incoming and outgoing royalty data, maintaining internal documents/trackers with updated information• Communicate royalty figures to the Finance team accurately and promptly• Liaise with digital partners and Merlin’s Business & Legal Affairs team to agree upon reporting templates tailored to the royalty terms under deal• Work closely with Merlin’s Technology team to integrate new reports• Liaise with Merlin members and digital partners on all manner of inquiries• Provide ad hoc assistance on other projects

London, United Kingdom

*Ensuring the timely receipt of incoming*Reporting from our distribution partners*Preparing invoices where necessary*Filing and processing incoming statements*Data input and updating as required*Investigating royalty identification issues*Assisting with the generation of royalty accounting to our clients to strict deadlines*Providing intelligent data analysis using Excel

London, United Kingdom

Preparation of the beneficiary and agency statements as defined within the contractual agreements and to the agreed timetable, ensuring that the royalty files hold sufficient detail for audit purposesPreparation of the financial journals and payment headers for input into the accounting system SAP thus ensuring that the financial accounting entries (vendors, advances, recharges etc) are both complete and accuratePreparation of schedules to support the recharges shown on the beneficiary and agent statementsInitiate payments to beneficiaries, either by preparation of self-billed invoices or by requesting the beneficiary to invoicePreparation of ad hoc schedules as required by the senior members of the Royalties team to support financial accounting entries, beneficiary queries, audits etcLiaise both internally and externally to resolve any queries as they arise, passing complex / commercial sensitive queries to the senior members of the Royalties teamAbility to identify and recommend process improvements to the Royalties Manager for discussion

The purpose of the role is to work with the Head of Distribution and Distributions Manager in supervising the Distributions Assistants and to operate an efficient distribution process so that members receive rights payments on time, correctly and completely.Principal TasksWork with the Head of Distribution and Distributions Manager to ensure the continual high level of integrity and quality of the distribution process.-Dealing with individual members’ queries on matters relating to payments, work registrations, VAT, etc -The preparation and checking of claims to foreign Collecting Societies-The analysis of reports received from Broadcasters-The allocation and distribution of rights payments to members under both of the Directors UK distribution schemes-Lead by example and motivate the team to achieve its objectives and targets-Provide training and development to team members

• Entering musical works information onto the Counterpoint Music Maestro Database• Registering musical works information and publishing agreement information with the MCPS-PRS Alliance• Distributing copyright information and music to all sub publishing affiliates• Researching data for copyright projects • Assisting with publishing royalty runs – works matching, printing royalty statements on Maestro/Counterpoint Database Systems.• Assisting with Synch/Print/Mech. licensing– sending requests over to music supervisors and our administrators world-wide to gain approvals, and invloved in some aspects of quoting fees.• Maintaining Blue Mountain Music’s music libraries e.g Digital music library through iTunes, Physical CD and vinyl library & Stock library.• Ordering and tracking down of CDs to add to music libraries• Attending concerts and other such events to extend hospitality to Blue Mountain Music clients• Assisting in compiling newsletters to send to clients and sub publishing affiliates

Investigation and follow up of all incoming revenue streams from our publishing catalogue, both US and UK affiliates. I also handle the process of issuing mechanical/synchronisation licenses. Carrying out research projects into our top-earning copyrights, determining where our copyrights have been used, and obtaining licenses for those which have not issued royalty statements. I recently completed an on-going project whereby all copyrights were individually checked for there registration status, and register with the correct registration bodies such as MCPS/PRS, ASCAP and BMI. We recently had a large belly dance festival in Blackpool over three days. With over 1000 participants, I took care of customer queries, booking and online registrations whilst also working at the festival as query/workshop advisor. I also attend as a trader to other Middle-east dance festivals, including Orienta in Frankfurt and Berlin. I also overlook our wholesale and retail streams for all DVDs and CDs.

Processing sales data for all non-retail schemes as well other revenue schemes including ring tones, Online, Multi-Media, Broadcast, Karaoke and Premiums. Calculation and invoicing of these royalties.Investigation, resolution and correction of data as a result of queries from members and licensees, providing a customer service function for AP2/AP2A/AP7 licensees, also including back claim disputes/queries. I am responsible for the processing and invoicing of related party exclusion fees every quarter for AP2 licensees.Providing end of month reports and cross-referencing data between NFM and indexes over all schemes and reporting back to team-coordinator on these figures.

General Administration Duties whilst also providing assistance to the Accounts, Sales and Marketing.

Ba (Hons), Music Industry Management & Popular Music, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Open Day AssistantBa (Hons) Music Industry Management & Popular Music

A Level, Biology, Chemistry, Geography

A Level Biology (A), Chemistry (A), Geography (C), General Studies (D)

Gcse, Maths, Science, English +

Activities and Societies: Prefect duties, Deputy Head Girl - partaking in Parents Evenings etc.Maths (B), English Lit & Lang (A, A).