About the Role
The WMX Finance team supports global merchandising, artist services, and supply chain within WMX. This role acts as the analytical engine, ensuring forecasting accuracy, building financial models, and providing data support to optimize profitability across a multi-channel global business.
Responsibilities
- Partner directly with merchandising, e-commerce, and commercial managers to track, analyze, and translate business performance against financial goals.
- Prepare complex financial modeling and analysis for upcoming artist deals and new business opportunities, evaluating IRR, NPV, royalties, advances, recoupment, and profit share.
- Manage the day-to-day coordination and consolidation of the annual budget, quarterly forecasting cycles, and long-range planning (LRP) for the US merchandising business.
- Deliver detailed US monthly variance analysis and maintain operational dashboards tracking key indicators such as revenue per head, margins, inventory turns, and sell-through.
- Analyze US tour profitability structures and e-commerce performance measurements to identify optimization areas.
- Coordinate with Accounting and Shared Services to support the monthly US close process, track cash flow forecasting, and ensure integrity in revenue recognition.
- Support data flow improvements, system enhancements, and finance transformation initiatives to drive automation and scalable reporting solutions.
- Supervise, mentor, and develop a manager and a financial analyst, ensuring high-quality outputs and clear career progression.
Requirements
- 7–10 years (for Director) or 5–7 years (for Senior Manager) of progressive experience in Finance, FP&A, or Accounting.
- Hands-on experience supporting merchandising, e-commerce, retail, or multi-channel supply chain businesses.
- Strong financial modeling abilities, with practical experience calculating IRR, NPV, and ROI for business decisions.
- Proven understanding of core corporate finance principles, including P&L management, forecasting, and cash flow tracking.
- Direct experience managing, mentoring, or supervising junior analysts.
- Excellent technical proficiency in Excel, pivot tables and data manipulation.
Skills
- Financial modeling
- IRR
- NPV
- ROI
- P&L management
- Forecasting
- Cash flow tracking
- Excel
- Pivot tables
- Data manipulation
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Director
- Senior Manager
Education Level
- CPA
- CFA
- MBA
Salary/Compensations
- $115,000 to $135,000 Annually
Benefits
- 2026 Benefits At A Glance final.pdf
About the Company
- 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.
- We are guided by three core values: Curiosity, Collaboration, and Commitment.
- WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success.
- WMG champions emerging artists and global superstars alike.
- Warner Chappell Music represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide.
- WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.
- We are one global company made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business.
- It is the mission of every member of the WMG team around the world to create a nurturing environment for artists, songwriters, and fellow employees at every stage of their career.
- We strive to set WMG apart from the rest of the industry by embracing a philosophy of innovation that is part of our company's DNA.
Equal Opportunity
- Warner Music Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.
- We are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone.
