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 know that each talent makes our collective bolder and brighter. We are guided by four core principles that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:
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: Sr. Analyst, Financial
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 share this new opportunity for a Sr. Analyst, Participations with strong analytical & financial capabilities, to join our Participations group.
Why this could be your next big break:
Working together with your team, you consistently meet deadlines and exceed expectations
Each day, you balance the important with the urgent, while remaining focused on upcoming deadlines, and proactively communicate anticipated hurdles to your manager
Handling large volumes of complex, financial data, you take pride producing accurate, quality work that displays an attention to detail
It's important that you develop an expertise in the business, you dive into legal agreements, and the interpretation of contractual terms, and can apply this knowledge to analyze, see trends and explain the data
You exhibit a continuous improvement mindset, and jump at the opportunity to help transform processes, push boundaries, and innovate
Music is everything! You’re passionate about our artists, driven to provide first class customer service to both internal and external partners, and are known for your responsiveness and going the extra mile
You inspire, support, share ideas, and learn from those around you
Here you’ll get to:
Compile, analyze and review transactional data to support statement reporting
Interpret, and summarize artist and label contracts, create related statements and financial schedules, provide contractual and financial data for deal models and analysis
Apply your financial accounting skills: review profitability analysis, identify variances and trends, create commentary to explain insights from financial statements, perform reconciliations, update cash forecasts and budgets, investigate audit issues and claims, perform tasks as part of the overall close process (includes accruals & true ups to expense, balance sheet transfers & reclasses, recoupments, participation, P&D and merch liabilities, and journal entries)
Follow department financial controls and policies, communicate deficiencies and gaps to management
Maintain vendor master data, input, code & co-ordinate payments
Build and maintain strong working relationships across the company (up to senior executives), follow up open work items, respond to requests from internal and external partners
Communicate status & escalate issues as appropriate to your manager, manage work according to department deadlines, meeting department service levels and KPIs
Learn WMG operational & accounting systems, develop expertise in participations accounting & operations
Contribute ideas to process transformation, innovation, and improvement of team operations
Provide support to our peers, assist with supervision of team, and demonstrate best practices
Represent and contribute to the culture of the Participations group
About you:
BA/BS degree required, preferably in accounting or finance related fields
3-5 years of experience working in a related capacity
Financial statement preparation background
Advanced proficiency with MS Excel, working with large data sets and complex calculations
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
Ability to manage multiple priorities, 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
About us:
As the home to 10K Projects, 300 Elektra, Asylum, Atlantic, East West, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and several other of the world’s premier recording labels, Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. And our renowned publishing company, Warner Chappell Music, represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalogue of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX. In addition, WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.
Together, we are Warner Music Group: Music With Vision & Voice.
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Don’t be discouraged if you don’t hear from us right away. We’re taking our time to review all resumes, and to find the best people for WMG.
Thanks for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here, and think you will, too.
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With its broad roster of new stars and legendary artists, Warner Music Group is home to a collection of the best-known record labels in the music industry including Asylum, Atlantic, East West, Elektra, Nonesuch, Reprise, Rhino, Roadrunner, Rykodisc, Sire, Warner Bros. and Word, as well as Warner/Chappell Music, one of the world's leading music publishers, with a catalogue of more than one million copyrights worldwide.
WMG comprises an array of businesses aimed at helping artists achieve long-term creative and financial success while providing consumers with the highest-quality music content available. WMG is engaged in the recorded music business (including artist services) and the music publishing business, and is a leading company in national and international repertoire that operates through numerous international affiliates and licensees in more than 50 countries.
Our recorded music business includes our growing artist services business, which offers artist management, merchandising, touring, fan clubs, VIP ticketing, sponsorships and brand endorsements, and numerous third-party solutions that facilitate the sale of music-based content directly to consumers. Our artist services business works with WMG artists as well as artists not otherwise signed to WMG labels.
Our primary music publishing business, Warner/Chappell Music, is one of the world's leading music publishers, with a catalogue of more than one million songs from more than 65,000 songwriters, and includes Non-Stop Music, a full service music production library company.