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About the Role

As a critical strategic co-pilot and leadership pillar, you will take full ownership of the financial rhythm, guide a focused team, and deliver high-impact commercial clarity during a fast-paced, transformative phase for the business.

Responsibilities

Lead, mentor, and empower a high-performing finance team of two.
Own and orchestrate the full monthly close process across WMX entities.
Steer robust P&L forecasts, cash flow models, and annual budgets.
Appraise budgets, forecasts, and actuals, presenting incisive commercial commentary to leadership.
Interrogate the extension ledger to guarantee all artist merchandise entries clear precisely to their respective label profit centers.
Deliver analytical reviews of operational and financial performance to senior management.
Lead the rollout and implementation of technical accounting policies.
Steer VAT submissions across all business verticals, serving as the authority on cross-border tax compliance and structuring.
Meet with commercial and label leads regarding commercial strategy, providing financial modeling for new ventures, and advise on VAT handling for live events and popup stores in the UK/EU.
Review and approve artist statements, ensuring all recoupable costs are accounted for correctly.
Play a front-line role in Finance Transformation, untangling implementation hurdles, testing critical inputs/outputs, and optimising systems.
Partner with WMX business heads to remove friction, smash deadlines, and deliver on core milestones.
Build granular financial analyses and evaluate high-stakes artist deals to steer executive decision-making.
Spearhead process optimisation initiatives.
Champion governance by maintaining and enforcing SOX compliance frameworks.
Oversee the integrity of artist statement data to uphold reporting accuracy.
Tackle large-scale data reconciliations, financial modeling, and bespoke ad-hoc investigations.

Requirements

Fully Qualified: ACA, ACCA, or CIMA certified.
10+ years in progressive finance roles.
Experienced in steering, coaching, and getting the best out of finance talent.
Deep technical accounting pedigree paired with hands-on audit pedigree (internal or external).
Extensive experience architecting sophisticated budgets, forecasts, and cash-flow roadmaps.
Highly analytical thinker who instinctively dissects complex commercial problems with logic, precision, and speed.
Proven ability to thrive and pivot gracefully under tight turnaround times in dynamic, creative industries.
Exceptional advanced modeling and spreadsheet capabilities with zero compromise on data accuracy.
A driven, proactive team player who brings high energy, flexibility, and decisive ownership to every project.
Hands-on experience navigating SAP (such as SAP S/4HANA).
Strong track record managing external audit engagements from inception to sign-off.
Direct exposure to large-scale finance transformations, system rollouts, or operational process re-engineering.

Skills

Financial Reporting
Operational Insights
P&L Forecasting
Cash Flow Modeling
Budgeting
Commercial Commentary
Merchandise Accounting
Technical Accounting
VAT Submissions
Cross-border Tax Compliance
Financial Modeling
VAT Handling
Artist Statements
Recoupable Costs
Finance Transformation
System Implementation
Process Optimization
SOX Compliance
Data Reconciliation
Ad-hoc Investigations
SAP
External Audit Management
System Rollouts
Operational Process Re-engineering

Location

Onsite

Work Type

10 months (Paternity Leave Cover)
Full-time
Hybrid

Experience Level

10+ years

Education Level

ACA
ACCA
CIMA

About the Company

Warner Music Group is 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.
WMG is 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.
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 ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX.
WMG also counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.

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.