Job 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.
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To deliver high quality control environment and contribute to the Universal UK recorded music division being SoX compliant.
This role would see you working closely with the Head of Accounting, Group FD and the Dutch based global controls assurance team, with the goal of driving improvement across the controls environment.
A key aspect of this engaging with different teams across the business, working collaboratively with these stakeholders to improve the control environment.
The B Side: Skills & Experience
Key component of the UK recorded music controls and compliance team, to ensure the division is compliant with SoX requirement. This will include:
Monitoring of compliance of controls
Leading discussions with various business units to improve and update controls, this will include feeding back issues with existing processes
Key point of contact for UMG Global Controls Assurance team
Liaising with numerous other departments to improve control environment and processes
Performing walkthroughs of controls
Operating effectiveness testing
Ad hoc work as required – providing support to the Head of Accounting
Person Specification
Qualified ACCA/ACA
Experience in internal audit/controls (including SoX experience)
Proactive approach and willingness to take ownership of tasks
Ability to communicate and work at all levels with a large number of stakeholders i.e. staff to senior management
Problem solving and decision-making skills
Systems experience of SAP, HFM, Blackline and Metric-stream desirable
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 available
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.
Job Category:
Finance & Accounting
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We own and operate a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries.
We identify and develop recording artists and songwriters, and we produce, distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to delight and entertain fans around the world.
Our vast catalog of recordings and songs stretches back over a century and comprises the largest, most diverse and culturally rich collection of music ever assembled.
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