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.
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 hear from financial managers with success delivering process improvements, who are looking for an opportunity to manage a talented finance operations team within music!
Why this could be your next big break:
- You’re highly efficient, resilient and excel leveraging your analytical and financial capabilities within a fast paced, deadline driven environment
- Working together and managing the efforts of others, your results driven focus sees your team consistently meet deadlines and exceed expectations
- Each day, you balance the important with the urgent, recognize and escalate thoughtfully to leadership and communicate effectively across the organization
- Handling large volumes of complex, financial data effortlessly, you take pride producing accurate reporting, reviewing the work of others, and owning team controls, systems, and processes
- It's important that you truly know the business, as you dive into legal agreements, and the interpretation of contractual terms and effectively direct others to execute successfully
- You’re a caring people manager, who prioritizes the coaching and development of your team
- You love being a key point of contact for internal and external partners and are known for your responsiveness and going the extra mile
- You have a continuous improvement mindset and have successfully collaborated cross functionally to lead process transformation efforts for your team
Here you’ll get to:
- Manage the preparation, review, reconciliation & distribution of Participation distribution and profit share statements according to contractual agreements
- Manage team workflow and delivery, meeting department service levels and KPIs
- Oversee the use of systems, reporting tools and related controls to deliver accurate statements to our artists and third parties
- Finalize, review & approve financial reconciliations, cash forecasts and budgets, advance recoupment and Participations expense and balance sheet entries
- Oversee SOX compliance and internal controls, respond to audit requests
- Build and maintain strong working relationships across the company at all levels, as a primary contact for our internal and external partners
- Communicate status & escalate issues as appropriate to senior management
- Master WMG operational & accounting systems, further expertise in participations accounting & operations
- Contribute ideas and help lead process transformation, innovation, and improvement of team operations
- Demonstrate people management capabilities: coach and develop staff and contribute to the culture of the Participations group
About you:
- BA/BS degree required, preferably in accounting or finance related fields
- 5+ years of professional experience working in a related capacity
- Strong financial analysis and financial statement preparation background required
- Advanced proficiency with MS Excel, working with large data sets and complex calculations
- Experience supervising and developing staff
- Customer focused, with ability to manage & deliver service level expectations
- 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 at all levels
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and direct reports, 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
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Warner Music Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Links to relevant documents:
2025 Benefits At A Glance final.pdf
EVerify Participation Poster.pdf
Right To Work .pdf
Top Skills
What We Do
With a legacy extending back over 200 years, Warner Music Group (WMG) today brings together artists, songwriters, and entrepreneurs that are moving entertainment culture across the globe. Operating in more than 70 countries through a network of affiliates and licensees, WMG's Recorded Music division includes renowned labels such as 300 Entertainment, Asylum, Atlantic, Big Beat, Canvasback, Elektra, Erato, First Night, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Reprise, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Spinnin', Warner Records, Warner Classics, and Warner Music Nashville. WMG's music publishing arm, Warner Chappell Music, has a catalog of over one million copyrights spanning every musical genre, from the standards of the Great American Songbook to the biggest hits of the 21st century. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, the independent artist and label services company – as well as next gen artist services division WMX, which includes consumer brands such as Songkick, the live music app; EMP, the merchandise e-tailer; UPROXX, the youth culture destination; and HipHopDX, the hip-hop music news site. In addition, WMG counts storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment and social media content creator IMGN among its many brands.
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