Senior Analyst, Financial job at Warner Music Group in US National

Sr. Analyst, Financial

remote type

Remote

locations

USA - Remote

time type

Full time

job requisition id

R-025448

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 championing 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.

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, build 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 & coordinate 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 & raise issues as appropriate to your manager, lead work according to department deadlines, meeting department service levels and important metrics

Learn WMG operational & accounting systems, develop expertise in participations accounting & operations

Contribute ideas to process transformation, innovation, and improvement of team operations

Support our peers, help supervise the team, and demonstrate standard methodologies

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

Sophisticated proficiency with MS Excel, working with large data sets and complex calculations

Possess strong problem solving and analytical skills with attention to detail

Effective communication skills, able to work cross-functionally and connect with internal & external partners

Ability to lead multiple priorities, complete tasks with accuracy and deliver under pressure

Ability to understand sophisticated information quickly, breakdown and communicate to others

We’d love it if you also had:

You’re highly efficient, resilient and thrive working in a fast paced, deadline driven environment

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 approach, and jump at the opportunity to help transform processes, push boundaries, and innovate

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

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.

#LI-Remote Salary Range: $60,000 to $70,000 Annually

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