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Finance Analyst at Universal Music Group

Finance Analyst

Universal Music Group · AU

4 weeks ago

Finance Analyst

Universal Music Group · AU

a month ago
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About the Role

This role partners with teams across Labels, Finance, Brands, Sync, and Recording Studios to transform financial data into actionable insights. You will contribute commercial thinking to a creative, fast-moving environment, focusing on budgets, forecasts, and performance analysis.

Responsibilities

  • Own the loading and consolidation of forecast and budget income and margins.
  • Manage forecast and budget marketing cost loads and reconciliations.
  • Assist with forecast and budget A&R provisions.
  • Ensure accuracy and integrity of BPC inputs through to HFM submission.
  • Prepare the internal finance pack, providing meaningful commentary to support end-of-month decision-making.
  • Deliver accurate divisional and project reporting that helps teams understand performance and make informed decisions.
  • Partner with the Brands team to analyse project profitability and provide clear commercial insights.
  • Work closely with Sync, Management Commission and Recording Studios teams to provide analysis and commentary on profitability, rolling forecasts and revenue pipelines.
  • Prepare monthly management reporting with clear, relevant insights.
  • Upload digital financial information into HFM.
  • Prepare and distribute quarterly key artist LTD P&Ls to the labels.
  • Review overheads for accuracy and completeness, with clear commentary on key movements.
  • Monitor spend against budget across UMA divisions, helping teams stay on track and manage costs effectively.
  • Track and report on A&R spends per label.

Requirements

  • 3-5 years experience in management accounting, reporting and commercial analysis.
  • Advanced Excel skills.
  • Proven high level of organization and meticulous attention to details.
  • Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills, with the confidence to communicate financial information clearly to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
  • Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills, with the ability to partner with and positively influence creative teams and senior leaders in their decision-making.
  • Comfortable with change, competing priorities and working to tight deadlines.
  • Agile, collaborative and solutions-focused in your approach.

Skills

  • SAP
  • BPC
  • Power BI
  • HFM
  • Business Objects

Location

  • Australia

Work Type

  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • 3-5 years

Education Level

  • Tertiary qualifications in Accounting, Finance or a related discipline

Benefits

  • Career opportunities – unique and rare opportunity to elevate your career in a supportive, motivated and ambitious team
  • The opportunity to join the WORLDS leading music company
  • All the perks of working within the music industry (did someone say live music?)
  • X 2 ‘U-Days’ per calendar year to spend however you like!
  • Strengths based learning and development opportunities

About the Company

  • We are Universal Music Australia (UMA), part of the Universal Music Group. We are the world’s leading music company. In everything we do, we are committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship. We own and operate a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audio-visual content in more than 60 countries We identify and develop recording artists and songwriters, and we produce, distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to delight and entertain fans around the world.
  • We’re an entrepreneurial, global organisation where authenticity, boldness, creativity, connection, drive, and insight aren’t just values; they’re how we work every day. Collaboration sits at our core, and we draw strength from diverse perspectives and meaningful relationships, knowing that what we achieve together is greater than what we can do alone.
  • We encourage everyone to show up as their true self, bringing something real to the work we do. We also approach every challenge with curiosity and imagination, always asking “what if?” and finding new, unexpected ways forward. If that sounds like you, you’ll fit right in. You can learn more about our values and what we stand for here.

Equal Opportunity

  • At Universal Music we are committed to fostering diversity and inclusivity as an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply for our roles regardless of their gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, intersex status, marital or family status, neurodiversity, religion or belief, disabilities, or socio-economic background. We also encourage people from all cultural backgrounds to apply, including First Nations people. It is through our diversity and inclusivity that we bring that we bring together different perspectives, enhancing our creative and evolving workplace. Music is Universal.