Senior Financial Analyst

This is a Full Time Job

Job Title: Sr. Analyst, Financial
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 championing 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 share this new opportunity for a Sr. Analyst, Participations with strong analytical & financial capabilities, to join our Participations group.
Here you'll get to:
• Prepare, analyze, review, and distribute participation profit share and distribution statements according to contractual agreements
• Compile, analyze and review transactional data to support statement reporting
• Interpret, and summarize artist and label contracts, create related statements and financial schedules, provide contractual and financial data for deal models and analysis
• Apply your financial accounting skills: review profitability analysis, identify variances and trends, build commentary to explain insights from financial statements, perform reconciliations, update cash forecasts and budgets, investigate audit issues and claims, perform tasks as part of the overall close process (includes accruals & true ups to expense, balance sheet transfers & reclasses, recoupments, participation, P&D and merch liabilities, and journal entries)
• Follow department financial controls and policies, communicate deficiencies and gaps to management
• Maintain vendor master data, input, code & coordinate payments
• Build and maintain strong working relationships across the company (up to senior executives), follow up open work items, respond to requests from internal and external partners
• Communicate status & raise issues as appropriate to your manager, lead work according to department deadlines, meeting department service levels and important metrics
• Learn WMG operational & accounting systems, develop expertise in participations accounting & operations
• Contribute ideas to process transformation, innovation, and improvement of team operations
• Support our peers, help supervise the team, and demonstrate standard methodologies
• Represent and contribute to the culture of the Participations group
About you:
• BA/BS degree required, preferably in accounting or finance related fields
• 3-5 years of experience working in a related capacity
• Financial statement preparation background
• Sophisticated proficiency with MS Excel, working with large data sets and complex calculations
• Possess strong problem solving and analytical skills with attention to detail
• Effective communication skills, able to work cross-functionally and connect with internal & external partners
• Ability to lead multiple priorities, complete tasks with accuracy and deliver under pressure
• Ability to understand sophisticated information quickly, breakdown and communicate to others
We'd love it if you also had:
• You're highly efficient, resilient and thrive working in a fast paced, deadline driven environment
• It's important that you develop an expertise in the business, you dive into legal agreements, and the interpretation of contractual terms, and can apply this knowledge to analyze, see trends and explain the data
• You exhibit a continuous improvement approach, and jump at the opportunity to help transform processes, push boundaries, and innovate
• Entertainment, Media, or Music Industry experience working in Participations/Royalties or similar role
• Experience working remotely in a Shared Services environment
• Technical working expertise with SAP S4 Hana, SAP Analysis for Office, BI, SharePoint


We're taking our time to review all resumes, and to find the best people for WMG.