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About the Role
The FP&A team at Warner Music Group (WMG) ensures compliance with internal management reporting standards. The team conducts analyses on operating performance, market/competitive landscapes, and ad-hoc projects, providing comprehensive reporting for all financial cycles. This role requires a strong background in variance analysis and a deep understanding of accounting and finance, with a focus on analyzing financial variances and communicating results and forecasts effectively.
Responsibilities
- Lead Financial Reporting & Analysis: Oversee monthly and quarterly reporting cycles, ensuring accurate and timely communication of results and forecasts to senior management.
- Mentor & Develop Team Members: Manage two direct reports, providing coaching and guidance to help them grow professionally while fostering a high-performance culture.
- Strategic Collaboration: Work with various stakeholders, including senior leadership, to integrate financial insights into company strategy and influence decisions.
- Promote Accountability: Ensure team members and stakeholders are held accountable for deliverables, consistently meeting performance targets and financial goals.
- Lead Cross-Functional Projects: Take charge of ad-hoc projects that require collaboration across departments, demonstrating your ability to unite teams and drive outcomes.
- Oversee the Corporate Reporting and Analysis process, ensuring timely monthly reporting of actual and forecast results.
- Coordinate with segment finance leads at Recorded Music, Music Publishing, and Corporate operating segments for accurate reporting and analysis of WMG’s performance.
- Manage and review financial review packages summarizing WMG’s performance, including key metrics, for the Board of Directors, CEO, CFO, and Controller.
- Prepare concise summaries of monthly actual and forecast results, comparing them to prior year, prior forecast, and budget, highlighting significant variances.
- Calculate and track critical compliance metrics, including comparative leverage calculations, and model Adjusted EBITDA across various projections and business scenarios.
- Oversee the preparation and maintenance of recurring source files, primarily in Excel with HFM Smart View functionality, which form the foundation of senior management reporting.
- Collaborate with Investor Relations and External Reporting to assist in the development of quarterly and annual press releases, earnings script documents, and other financial communications, including directly supporting IR in answering investor and analyst questions.
- Manage KPI reporting across the organization and conduct detailed cost analysis.
- Perform deep-dive strategic analysis to evaluate key business drivers, model the financial impacts of internal structural changes, assess margin performance, and develop actionable scenarios to optimize financial outcomes.
- Work closely with External Reporting to review quarterly MD&A, income statement analysis, and other ad-hoc reporting during the earnings process.
Requirements
- 10+ years professional experience in accounting and financial analysis
- Large multi-national experience a plus
- Strong computer skills with knowledge of financial systems and software
- Knowledge of music/media industry strong plus
Skills
- Variance analysis
- Accounting
- Finance
- Financial analysis
- Financial reporting
- Key business metrics
- Forecasting
- Annual budgeting
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Continuous process improvement
- Organizational skills
- Attention to detail
- Partnering
- Influencing
- Communication skills
- Proactive work ethic
- Independent work ethic
- Strategic partnership
- Team environment collaboration
- Excel
- HFM Smart View
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 10+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/ Finance / Economics
- CPA preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000 to $160,000 Annually
Benefits
- Benefits At A Glance
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.
- We are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone.
- 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.
- 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.
- Our renowned publishing company, Warner Chappell Music, represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide.
- Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX.
- In addition, WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.
- Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.
Equal Opportunity
- Warner Music Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.