Warner Music Group
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.
WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.
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.
A little bit about our team:
Warner Music Group's Center of Excellence for Shared Services is the home to the financial, legal, and administrative functions that provide critical support and best-in-class services to all U.S. record labels, publishing and artist label services divisions. The Nashville center embodies the innovative and creative spirit that stems from the company’s deep history in nurturing entrepreneurial thinking and artist-focused innovation, enabling our employees to develop a wide range of skills through cross-function collaboration and development opportunities.
We’re excited to hear from financial managers with success delivering process improvements, who are looking for an opportunity to manage a talented finance operations team within music!
Why this could be your next big break:
You’re highly efficient, resilient and excel leveraging your analytical and financial capabilities within a fast paced, deadline driven environment
Working together and managing the efforts of others, your results driven focus sees your team consistently meet deadlines and exceed expectations
Each day, you balance the important with the urgent, recognize and escalate thoughtfully to leadership and communicate effectively across the organization
Handling large volumes of complex, financial data effortlessly, you take pride producing accurate reporting, reviewing the work of others, and owning team controls, systems, and processes
It's important that you truly know the business, as you dive into legal agreements, and the interpretation of contractual terms and effectively direct others to execute successfully
You’re a caring people manager, who prioritizes the coaching and development of your team
You love being a key point of contact for internal and external partners and are known for your responsiveness and going the extra mile
You have a continuous improvement mindset and have successfully collaborated cross functionally to lead process transformation efforts for your team
Here you’ll get to: Manage the preparation, review, reconciliation & distribution of Participation distribution and profit sharestatements according to contractual agreements
Manage team workflow and delivery, meeting department service levels and KPIs
Oversee the use of systems, reporting tools and related controls to deliver accurate statements to our artists and third parties
Finalize, review & approve financial reconciliations, cash forecasts and budgets, advance recoupment and Participations expense and balance sheet entries
Oversee SOX compliance and internal controls, respond to audit requests
Build and maintain strong working relationships across the company at all levels, as a primary contact for our internal and external partners
Communicate status & escalate issues as appropriate to senior management
Master WMG operational & accounting systems, further expertise in participations accounting & operations
Contribute ideas and help lead process transformation, innovation, and improvement of team operations
Demonstrate people management capabilities: coach and develop staff and contribute to the culture of the Participations group
About you: BA/BS degree required, preferably in accounting or finance related fields
5+ years of professional experience working in a related capacity
Strong financial analysis and financial statement preparation background required
Advanced proficiency with MS Excel, working with large data sets and complex calculations
Experience supervising and developing staff
Customer focused, with ability to manage & deliver service level expectations
Possess strong problem solving and analytical skills with attention to detail
Effective interpersonal skills, able to work cross-functionally and communicate with internal & external stakeholders at all levels
Ability to manage multiple priorities and direct reports, execute tasks with accuracy and deliver under pressure
Ability to understand complex information quickly, breakdown and communicate to others
We’d love it if you also had: Entertainment, Media, or Music Industry experience working in Participations/Royalties or similar role
Experience working remotely in a Shared Services environment
Technical working expertise with SAP S4 Hana, SAP Analysis for Office, BI, SharePoint
#LI-Remote Salary Range $85,000 to $90,000 Annually Salary ranges are included for job postings where required by law. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as work experience and business needs. The pay range is subject to change at any time dependent on a variety of internal and external factors. Warner Music Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Links to relevant documents: 2025 Benefits At A Glance final.pdf (https://docs.google.com/document/d/19XZ_Wjf-mqucat4-0xParQ03h5FUMZ59eU_1v87EM30/edit?tab=t.0) EVerify Participation Poster.pdf Right To Work .pdf (https://drive.google.com/file/d/12fEWwEKZJq8LVxShoBKFAx6oGt9UQhQH/view?usp=sharing)
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Working together and managing the efforts of others, your results driven focus sees your team consistently meet deadlines and exceed expectations
Each day, you balance the important with the urgent, recognize and escalate thoughtfully to leadership and communicate effectively across the organization
Handling large volumes of complex, financial data effortlessly, you take pride producing accurate reporting, reviewing the work of others, and owning team controls, systems, and processes
It's important that you truly know the business, as you dive into legal agreements, and the interpretation of contractual terms and effectively direct others to execute successfully
You’re a caring people manager, who prioritizes the coaching and development of your team
You love being a key point of contact for internal and external partners and are known for your responsiveness and going the extra mile
You have a continuous improvement mindset and have successfully collaborated cross functionally to lead process transformation efforts for your team
Here you’ll get to: Manage the preparation, review, reconciliation & distribution of Participation distribution and profit sharestatements according to contractual agreements
Manage team workflow and delivery, meeting department service levels and KPIs
Oversee the use of systems, reporting tools and related controls to deliver accurate statements to our artists and third parties
Finalize, review & approve financial reconciliations, cash forecasts and budgets, advance recoupment and Participations expense and balance sheet entries
Oversee SOX compliance and internal controls, respond to audit requests
Build and maintain strong working relationships across the company at all levels, as a primary contact for our internal and external partners
Communicate status & escalate issues as appropriate to senior management
Master WMG operational & accounting systems, further expertise in participations accounting & operations
Contribute ideas and help lead process transformation, innovation, and improvement of team operations
Demonstrate people management capabilities: coach and develop staff and contribute to the culture of the Participations group
About you: BA/BS degree required, preferably in accounting or finance related fields
5+ years of professional experience working in a related capacity
Strong financial analysis and financial statement preparation background required
Advanced proficiency with MS Excel, working with large data sets and complex calculations
Experience supervising and developing staff
Customer focused, with ability to manage & deliver service level expectations
Possess strong problem solving and analytical skills with attention to detail
Effective interpersonal skills, able to work cross-functionally and communicate with internal & external stakeholders at all levels
Ability to manage multiple priorities and direct reports, execute tasks with accuracy and deliver under pressure
Ability to understand complex information quickly, breakdown and communicate to others
We’d love it if you also had: Entertainment, Media, or Music Industry experience working in Participations/Royalties or similar role
Experience working remotely in a Shared Services environment
Technical working expertise with SAP S4 Hana, SAP Analysis for Office, BI, SharePoint
#LI-Remote Salary Range $85,000 to $90,000 Annually Salary ranges are included for job postings where required by law. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as work experience and business needs. The pay range is subject to change at any time dependent on a variety of internal and external factors. Warner Music Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Links to relevant documents: 2025 Benefits At A Glance final.pdf (https://docs.google.com/document/d/19XZ_Wjf-mqucat4-0xParQ03h5FUMZ59eU_1v87EM30/edit?tab=t.0) EVerify Participation Poster.pdf Right To Work .pdf (https://drive.google.com/file/d/12fEWwEKZJq8LVxShoBKFAx6oGt9UQhQH/view?usp=sharing)
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