Manager, Participations

This is a Full Time Job

DESCRIPTION:

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. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:

• Curiosity: We do our best work when we're immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future.
• Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.
• Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we're committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.

WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.

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.

A little bit about our team:

Warner Music Group's Center of Excellence for Shared Services is the home to the financial, legal, and administrative functions that provide critical support and best-in-class services to all U.S. record labels, publishing, and artist label services divisions. The Nashville center embodies the innovative and creative spirit that stems from the company's deep history in nurturing entrepreneurial thinking and artist-focused innovation, enabling our employees to develop a wide range of skills through cross-function collaboration and development opportunities.

We're excited to hear from financial managers with success delivering process improvements, who are looking for an opportunity to manage a talented finance operations team within music!

Why this could be your next big break:

• You're highly efficient, resilient, and excel leveraging your analytical and financial capabilities within a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Working together and managing the efforts of others, your results-driven focus sees your team consistently meet deadlines and exceed expectations.
• Each day, you balance the important with the urgent, recognize and escalate thoughtfully to leadership, and communicate effectively across the organization.
• Handling large volumes of complex financial data effortlessly, you take pride in producing accurate reporting, reviewing the work of others, and owning team controls, systems, and processes.
• It's important that you truly know the business, as you dive into legal agreements and the interpretation of contractual terms, effectively directing others to execute successfully.
• You're a caring people manager who prioritizes the coaching and development of your team.
• You love being a key point of contact for internal and external partners and are known for your responsiveness and going the extra mile.
• You have a continuous improvement mindset and have successfully collaborated cross-functionally to lead process transformation efforts for your team.

Here you'll get to:

• Manage the preparation, review, reconciliation & distribution of Participation distribution and profit share statements according to contractual agreements.
• Manage team workflow and delivery, meeting department service levels and KPIs.
• Oversee the use of systems, reporting tools, and related controls to deliver accurate statements to our artists and third parties.
• Finalize, review & ...