Financial Controller
Universal Music Group
Woodland Hills, CAThis was removed by the employer on 12/4/2014 9:22:00 AM PST
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JOB DESCRIPTION:
Universal Music Group (UMG) is the global music leader with strong market positions in recorded music, music publishing, and merchandising.
The recorded music business discovers and develops recording artists and then markets and promotes their music across a wide array of formats and platforms. UMG's music publishing company, Universal Music Publishing Group, discovers and develops songwriters, and owns and administers copyrights to musical compositions for use in recordings, public performances, and related uses, such as films and advertisements. Bravado, UMG's merchandising company, sells artist and music branded products via multiple sales points including online, fashion retail, and live performances.
UMG's strength and legacy of music flows from a diverse family of record labels which include: A&M/Octone, Angel, Astralwerks, Blue Note Records, Capitol Christian Music Group, Capitol Records, Capitol Records Nashville, Caroline, Decca, Def Jam Recordings, Deutsche Grammophon, Disa, Emarcy, EMI Records, EMI Records Nashville, Fonovisa, Geffen Records, Harvest, Interscope Records, Island Records, Machete Music, Manhattan, MCA Nashville, Mercury Nashville, Mercury Records, Motown Records, Polydor Records, Republic Records, Show Dog–Universal Music, Universal Music Latino, Verve Music Group, and Virgin Records.
UMG is seeking a Financial Controller.
The Financial Controller will be responsible for overseeing accounting and finance in our IT Finance department.
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Oversee with overall responsibility for accounting and book-keeping department
• Manage a team of administrative and accounting staff
• Manage remote BPO staff offering outsourced finance services
• Coordinate budget for IT and interface with each business/functional unit on balancing inter-company accounts and preparing management reports
• Consolidate and perform detailed variance analysis on a monthly basis.
• Develop and manage the process for delivering a monthly statement of allocations and direct costs to all operating companies which use IT Infrastructure services.
• Collect and integrate known changes for quarterly financial forecasts
• Collect and consolidate annual budget data, including metrics and costs, for allocation to clients worldwide
• Perform detailed tasks related to monthly, quarterly, and year-end close and reporting of the IT general ledger, including preparation of journal entries, running and reviewing the trial balance, maintaining, updating and generating reports from the direct charge/inter-company database
• Provide daily financial support and interface as needed to personnel within IT and in other divisions in the research of questionable charges, preparing special analysis/reports, gathering information and inputs, and assisting in the budget process
• Investment appraisal evaluation of IT projects -capital purchases – buy vs leases analysis
• Monitor internal controls, recommend improvements to processes and perform periodic reviews to ensure controls are operating effectively
• Liaisewith BPO partners for cross border charges to validate cross-charges
• Develop a process for ensuring at the beginning of each month that managers and directors are aware of their departmental reporting and compliance requirements for internal controls.
Management and Problem Solving Skills
• Multitasking – able to act quickly and decisively when issues arise
• Demonstrates strength in analytical, problem solving, and creative thinking abilities
• Translates "big picture" concepts into goals and objectives that can be implemented and sets priorities based on what is most important to the business then effectively presents those concepts and ideas
• Demonstrated leadership and team-building skills through assigning clear authority and accountability and tackling problems and opportunities directly and promptly
• Responds positively to changes and ambiguity and focuses on possibilities rather than problems
• Translates broad strategies into specific operational plans with a compelling results orientation
• Demonstrates the functional expertise to understand and resolve operational issues
• Demonstrates exceptional critical thinking and analytical skills by recognizing trends and patterns, systematically breaking down the situation, conducting root cause analysis and recommending solutions
• Skill to review and approve root cause analysis documents presented by outsource service providers
Position and Knowledge Requirements:
• SAP Experience mandatory
• HFM Experience essential
• Minimum of 3-5 years experience in IT accounting
• Significant executive experience
• Knowledge of accounting and IFRS GAAP
Education / Other:
• Undergraduate degree with emphasis in accounting, business or finance required
• CPA