Description

Music is Universal

It’s the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the world’s leading music company. From A&R to finance, legal to digital, sales to marketing, Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.
Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, age, marital status, background, pregnancy, or caring responsibilities. We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and other forms of neurocognitive variation.
We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment, workplaces, and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, including alternatives to the online form or to disclose a neurocognitive condition, please email UniversalMusicCareers@umusic.com.
The A Side: A Day in The Life
Based in London, Los Angeles and New York, Mercury Studios is a music first content studio established to develop, produce, globally distribute and invest in innovative, music-rooted storytelling.  Editorial independent from Universal, we work with a global network of creatives and artists in the areas of premium factual Film & TV, concert capture and performance led content, shortform and audio.  We are filmmakers in the world of music.
Alongside our original content, Mercury Studios represents the world’s leading catalogue of music-related content, consisting of thousands of hours of premium music-driven film and television programming.  Our Distribution and Content Sales team has over 20 years of experience of licensing music-driven content to buyers worldwide, from global platforms to national broadcasters, theatrical and emerging platforms like FAST.
Bringing these areas together we are uniquely placed to produce powerful projects which are editorially sound and reach global audiences.  Our projects have received Academy, BAFTA, Emmy, Grammy Awards and extensive festival wins.
This multidisciplinary role will support the Commercial Finance function and the VP of Catalogue, Operations and Technology in making raw data accessible and usable to help mercury studios solve problems and grow. The primary responsibility is to transform data via robotic process automation, implement data flows and develop business intelligence reports to help meet the company’s commercial objectives. The reporting will contain charts, graphs, diagrams, and dashboards to represent trends and predictions, with the ability to explain insights to a variety of audiences. This includes technical and non-technical teams.
The B Side: Skills & Experience
Be Data-Driven
Transform raw data into useful and actionable insights
Gather data from various sources and analyse patterns
Build and maintain data pipelines and databases
Create data validation methods and analysis tools
Implement data flows for analytics and business intelligence (BI) systems
Support and assist with the execution of our data strategy
Be Technical
Develop BI and visualisations
Set up robotic process automations and workflows to improve business processes
Be Collaborative
Work with stakeholders and other data engineers to build solutions
Person Specification

Necessary
Cloud certification (AWS/GCP/Azure) or mastery of data platforms (BigQuery/Snowflake)
Experience using data visualisation tools (Google Looker Studio - PowerBI)
Commercial experience and financial literacy to help businesses grow and succeed
Experience with machine learning and robotic process automation
The ability to work collaboratively with others to share ideas and find solutions
Experience communicating findings and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences
Expertise in creating a wide range of visualisations and graphs
Proficiency in programming languages and knowledge of data management tools, such as relational databases and data lakes
A deep understanding of SQL and analytical data warehouses
Hands-on experience with data pipeline tools
Knowledge of data security principles and confidentiality
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Strong data modelling skills
The ability to collect, organise, analyse, and disseminate large amounts of information
A strong foundation in mathematics and statistics, and experience using statistical packages
Strong communication skills
The ability to think critically and creatively to solve complex problems using data
Attention to detail and accuracy
Bonus Tracks: Your Benefits
Group Personal Pension Scheme (between 3% and 9%)
Private Medical Insurance
25 paid days of annual leave
Interest Free Season Ticket Loan
Holiday Purchase scheme
Dental and Travel Insurance options
Cycle to Work Scheme
Salary Sacrifice Cars
Subsidised Gym Membership
Employee Discounts (Reward Gateway)
Just So You Know…
The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However, the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholder's specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore, the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent, definitive, and exhaustive statement.

Skills Required

Data Management
Data Visualisation
Cloud

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