Senior Finance Manager, Emerging Markets (12 Month FTC)

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Senior Finance Manager, Emerging Markets (12 Month FTC)

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.

Job Title: Senior Finance Manager, EMEA (Emerging Markets)

A little bit about our team:

The Recorded Music (RM) Finance Department at WMG is responsible for handling the worldwide financial operations of the company’s recorded music businesses. The Emerging Markets (EM) team are responsible for growing and dynamic markets where WMG operations have been recently established. In these markets, the EM team are looking to establish a tangible presence, capitalising on the local trajectory through marketing of international roster and signing new artists, as well as looking for investment opportunities.

Your role:

The EM Finance department’s purpose is to provide support to local finance teams as well as central EMEA Finance. This includes internal financial reporting (month end processes, forecasting, budgeting), financial analysis and modelling, assisting with royalty statement generation and AP/AR functions, as well as ad hoc reporting to senior management.

Key markets to service include MENA, Africa and India, including all sub entities, with particular focus on the MENA and Turkey affiliates due to local finance team size. The Senior Finance Manager will report to the EM Finance Director.

Here you’ll get to:

Financial Reporting and Analysis

? You will ensure accurate financial reporting across the relevant entities, including monthly reporting submissions and annual budgets (including PL, Cash, Budgets, Balance Sheets, along with completion of Supplementary Reporting Schedules).

? You will ensure best practices, processes, procedures and internal controls are followed.

? You will drive the forthcoming introduction of a new ERP system across the region.

? Oversight of all financial processes and submissions, including AP, AR (operated in conjunction with local finance teams in territory), working capital management within Middle East and Turkey entities

? You will work alongside local management teams to ensure sound financial operation and viability of business units, including but not limited to management of ongoing budgets and modelling of new artist deals.

? You will work closely with local finance, WMG and external, to submit local Statutory Tax accounts.

Artist Accounting

? You will assist local teams with their artist royalty accounting alongside the central EMEA royalty resource

New Business

? You will be involved in the scoping, modelling, and implementation of new business in applicable territories.

? You will review artist models created by local finance teams, ultimately presenting to management for approval

Ad Hoc Analysis

? You will assist with Ad Hoc Financial reporting and analysis: typical exercises can include performance analysis related to artists, tracks, regions or markets.

About you:

? You have at least a 2:1 Bachelor’s degree, numerical degree preferred.

? You have 2+ Years experience post qualification (ACA/ACCA/CIMA).

? You have Comparable financial experience.

? You are highly motivated, independent and collaborative task finisher with a excellent work ethic.

? You have strong analytical skills and ability to work through problems logically in a fast-paced environment, within time constraints and deadlines.

? You have the capacity to work on projects concurrently and prioritise effectively.

? You are comfortable working and solutioning in ambiguous situations

? You have good interpersonal and communication skills; the ability to communicate with all levels of management and staff from around the world.

? You are highly proficient in all Microsoft Office Applications, predominantly Excel. Experience using Oracle (HFM/GFS) preferred.

? You have passion for the music industry

We’d love it if you also had:

? Experience working in a multi-national company (Group processes, intercompany etc.)

About us:

As the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, 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 catalog 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: Independent Minds. Major Sound.

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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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