Administrative Assistant, Legal & Business Affairs

Job Description:

At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses: 

• Curiosity: We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future. 

• Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.

• Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.

We remain committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. We know it fosters a culture where you can truly belong, contribute, and grow. We encourage applications from people of any age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, and any other characteristic or identity.

Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.

Job Title: Administrative Assistant, Legal & Business Affairs

A little bit about our team:

If you love music both new and old, are highly organized, and want to join a legal department that works with some of the best songwriters in the world, Warner Chappell is the place for you. We deal with a wide range of legal and business affairs, including contract negotiation and copyright enforcement.  If that’s what drives you, too, we want you on our team.

Your role:

      Under general supervision with latitude for independent judgment and decision, participates in the legal and certain related financial and business operations and aspects of the Company, involving negotiations, deals or contracts affecting copyrights, licenses, royalties, fees, claims, settlements, litigation and other related legal and/or business matters.

Here you’ll get to:

• Maintain records, files, contacts, documentation, etc. 

• Provide administrative support to the legal department.

• Prepare agreements and files for briefing.

• Assist, gather and review supporting materials for agreements, claims and litigation, including song information. 

• Prepare pay requests and complete necessary documentation.

• Schedule, coordinate, and maintain calendar of appointments, meetings, prepare and process expense reports, and travel itineraries. 

• Prepare, transcribe, and process correspondence, reports, status reports, forms of contracts, agreements, licenses, memoranda, presentation material, and other related matters of confidential and/or complex nature.

• Process incoming mail and correspondence; preparing outgoing mail.

• Perform special projects as needed. 

About you:

• A high school level education is required 

• Two (2) years of progressively responsible office experience, preferably within a legal department in a music publishing or related business preferably within a legal department, performing administrative functions.

• Handle and safeguard confidential and proprietary information.

• Effectively communicate internally and/or externally in a manner consistent with the company’s Code of Conduct and core values.

• Come to work on time without restriction as to time commitment.

• Read and understand materials and documents and have the ability to recognize and extract critical data and information.

• Perform all diverse physical tasks necessary to complete all the essential duties and r