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About the Role

Sony Music Entertainment is looking for a strategic, commercially minded Senior Director of Finance & Accounting to support decisions around artists, joint ventures, acquisitions, catalog, cash flow, and profitability with insightful analysis. This role requires deep accounting expertise, strong operational discipline, and exceptional analytical and financial modeling skills. The individual will provide hands-on leadership to strengthen accounting practices, including intercompany accounting, financial operations, and metadata management, ensuring accurate reporting. This position will also be responsible for the monthly close and forecast, as well as the annual budgeting process, and will touch virtually every aspect of label finance and accounting within a complex organizational structure. The role offers the opportunity to grow into a future CFO-level leader.

Responsibilities

Lead accounting setup, cleanup, and ongoing financial control processes across Alamo, Santa Anna, Foundation, OVO, and related ventures, with particular focus on entity structure, intercompany accounting, eliminations, reconciliations, and balance sheet integrity.
Strengthen accounting controls, workflows, and ownership across recurring close, reporting, intercompany, and operational finance processes.
Oversee monthly close, management reporting, variance analysis, balance sheet reviews, and corporate deliverables, ensuring results are accurate, timely, and clearly explained to senior management and SME stakeholders.
Manage annual budgeting, monthly forecasting, and long-range planning across labels, joint ventures, acquisitions, and new business initiatives, connecting financial plans to operating priorities, deal terms, and profitability targets.
Partner with SME central teams, including Accounting, Global Finance, Tax, Royalties, JV Accounting, Metadata, and technology partners, to improve financial operations, data quality, metadata workflows, systems integration, and reporting consistency across a complex organizational structure.
Support deal analysis, artist and label investment decisions, catalog and acquisition opportunities, royalty and recoupment analysis, and new venture business plans, ensuring financial assumptions align with contractual terms and operational realities.
Act as a senior finance business partner to label leadership and department team members across business units to help drive revenue growth, profitability, cash discipline, and operating efficiency all the business.
Serve as a reliable #2 to the CFO, leading detailed project management, integration efforts, process improvement initiatives, and other high-priority finance projects as a hands-on operator and strategic finance leader.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance required.
10+ years of progressive finance and accounting experience, ideally within music, media, entertainment, or another complex multi-entity environment.
CPA strongly preferred; MBA a plus.
Passionate about music, media, and entertainment.
Deep technical accounting foundation, including a strong understanding of month-end close processes, balance sheet reconciliations, accruals, eliminations, and intercompany accounting across multiple legal entities.
Strong financial planning, forecasting, modeling, and analysis skills, with the ability to translate detailed financial data and analysis into clear recommendations for senior leaders.
Sophisticated Excel skills, with the ability to analyze and interpret large data sets.
Analytical mindset with a natural desire to ask “why,” coupled with the initiative to reimagine and reinvent processes and improve the accuracy of reporting and analysis.
Experience working with corporate accounting, tax, royalties, metadata, systems, and shared service teams to resolve cross-functional issues and improve end-to-end financial operations.
Hands-on leader with a roll-up-your-sleeves attitude, high attention to detail, and the ability to manage complex projects at a granular level.

Skills

Accounting
Finance
Financial Analysis
Financial Modeling
Forecasting
Budgeting
Month-end Close
Balance Sheet Reconciliations
Accruals
Intercompany Accounting
Excel
Project Management
Process Design
Process Execution
Metadata Management

Location

New York

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior
10+ years

Education Level

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting or Finance
CPA preferred
MBA a plus

Salary/Compensations

$150,000—$185,000 USD

Benefits

Medical coverage
Dental coverage
Vision coverage
Life coverage
Disability coverage
401K + employer matching
Company-paid identity theft protection
Resources for pets
Mental health resources
Meditation resources
Industry-leading fertility coverage
Fully paid leave for childbirth or bonding
Fully paid leave for caregivers
Programs for loved ones with developmental disabilities and neurodiversity
Subsidized back-up child care
Subsidized back-up elder care
Reimbursement for adoption
Reimbursement for surrogacy
Reimbursement for tuition
Reimbursement for student loans
Investment in professional growth and development
Time off for a winter recess

About the Company

Sony Music Entertainment fuels the creative journey and has played a pioneering role in music history.
They work in more than 70 countries, supporting a diverse roster of international superstars, developing and independent artists, and visionary creators.
Sony Music Entertainment operates at the intersection of music, entertainment, and technology, embracing new business models and employing breakthrough tools.
They are committed to artistic integrity, transparency, and entrepreneurship.
Sony Music Entertainment is a member of the Sony family of global companies.
Alamo Records, Santa Anna Label Group, Foundation Media, and OVO Sound operate across a fast-moving, rapidly growing portfolio of labels, joint ventures, distribution partners, and artist deals.

Equal Opportunity

Sony Music is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of age, disability, national origin, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, veteran or military status, marital and civil partnership/union status, alienage or citizenship status, creed, genetic information or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.