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About the Role

The Regional Finance Manager will oversee key accounting and reporting activities for specific labels/affiliates and manage relationships with affiliate finance teams. This role involves managing a team, implementing controls, overseeing financial accounting, preparing reports, and supporting audits.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of professional accountants and support their day-to-day operations.
• Develop and train the team to enable them to reach their full potential.
• Implement and monitor controls and procedures related to all areas of financial accounting and reporting as well as project accounting.
• Manage the month-end close ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of the required activities.
• Serve as a point of escalation and approval for journal entries, reconciliations, financial reports, etc.
• Oversee financial accounting for revenue, expenses, fixed assets, intangible assets, production, inventory, intercompany and more.
• Prepare flux analysis, generate the trial balance for review and submission.
• Prepare the quarterly and annual reporting including liaising with corporate to resolve queries in a timely manner.
• Prepare and review cash flow statements, Statutory reports etc.
• Support internal and external audit including acting as the key audit contact.
• Work closely with International Tax team to set and implement global transfer pricing policies.
• Ensure a strong controls environment is maintained at all times, continuously improving existing control environment.
• Perform limited budgeting activity for ‘below the line’ expenses - i.e., interest and intercompany transactions.
• Partner with affiliate local finance teams on period close activities, understanding variances to budget.
• Other tasks as required by the Senior Director RTR or the Lead.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• CIMA/ACA/ACCA qualified
• 3+ years’ experience
• 6+ years of experience in accounting
• Experience working in a SOX controlled environment
• Experience conducting internal and external audits
• Experience with flux analysis
• Strong work-ethic and a self-starter who proactively seeks out new solutions
• Ability to multi-task and prioritise projects working well under pressure
• Detail oriented

Skills

• SAP knowledge is preferred but not essential

Location

• UK

Work Type

• Onsite
• Full-time

Experience Level

• 3+ years’ experience
• 6+ years of experience in accounting

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree
• CIMA/ACA/ACCA qualified

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.
• WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success.
• 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.
• Warner Music’s EMEA Shared Service Centre is the home to the financial, tax and administrative functions that provide critical support and best-in-class services to our European Recorded Music and Publishing businesses.
• The UK Centre 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.
• 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.
• WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its brands.
• Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.
• Warner Music Group is all about our people. 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.
• Consider a career at WMG and be a part of one of the biggest forces in music today.

Equal Opportunity

• WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business.
• We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religion or belief, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or any other characteristic protected by law.