Sr. Analyst, Financial

This is a Full Time Job

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:
• Music is Everything: Music is our passion, and we can never get enough. Tastes, trends, and tech will change, but great artists and songwriters will always be our driving force.
• Global Growth, Local Expertise: Music is a global language. Through communication and collaboration, our success can come from anywhere and translate everywhere.
• Innovation and Insight: Pushing the boundaries requires the best information and the boldest imagination. We use both to create the future.
• Empowered by People: Like the artists we serve and the music they make, our differences make us stronger. This is a place where every talent can belong and build a career.

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:
• You're highly efficient, resilient and thrive working in a fast paced, deadline driven environment
• 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:
• Prepare, analyze, review, and distribute participation profit share and distribution statements according to contractual agreements
• 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.

Love this job and want to apply?

Click the ''Apply'' link at the top of the page, or apply directly with your LinkedIn. Applying with LinkedIn will import all of the information you put in your profile, but will still allow you to upload a resume and cover letter.

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.

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