Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Warner Music Group is a global collective of music makers and innovators, seeking a highly autonomous finance professional for their Global Business Services team. The role involves preparing and analyzing financial statements, ensuring accuracy and compliance, while collaborating with various stakeholders and mentoring analysts.
Responsibilities
- Run the preparation and analysis of sophisticated participation profit-share and distribution financial statements
- Lead fiscal month-end close tasks, including complex true-ups, reconciliations, and expense accruals
- Act as the team’s primary 'Variance Detective' and quality gatekeeper
- Translate complex artist and label legal agreements into functional financial models
- Compile and analyze vast sets of transactional data to support statement reporting, budgets, and cash forecasts
- Proactively investigate artist inquiries, data issues or audit claims with a focus on mitigating financial risk
- Take an active role in team development by guiding analysts, providing ongoing review feedback, and facilitating training sessions for new hires to demonstrate best practices in Participations accounting
- Build and maintain strong working relationships across the company—from label finance and legal teams to senior executives
- Contribute to the evolution of the department by identifying inefficiencies and implementing technology-driven solutions
Skills
- BA/BS degree required (Accounting or Finance preferred)
- 3-5 years of professional experience in a complex financial capacity
- Advanced proficiency with MS Excel
- Solid grasp of financial accounting principles and how they apply to P&L statements, reconciliations, fiscal close processes and internal controls
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Proven track record of taking full ownership of your work
- Self-driven, highly organized, and able to execute with accuracy and deliver under pressure
- Ability to distill complex financial information into clear, actionable insights for internal customers
- Possess the leadership traits necessary to mentor peers
- Experience in Music, Media, or Entertainment (specifically in Participations, Royalties or Audit)
- Proficiency with SAP S4 Hana, SAP Analysis for Office, BI and SharePoint
- A natural technical curiosity, and digital innovation having leveraged Generative AI tools to automate manual workflows and drive efficiency in finance operations
- Proven success working in a fully remote, Shared Services environment
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