Analyst, Finance

Warner Music Group is a global collective of music makers and music lovers, and they are seeking an Analyst in Finance to join their Participations group. The role involves preparing and analyzing financial statements, managing large volumes of financial data, and building strong working relationships across the company.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, analyze, and distribute participation profit share and distribution statements according to contractual agreements
• Compile 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, create commentary to explain insights from financial statements, perform reconciliations, update cash forecasts and budgets, investigate audit issues and claims
• Follow department financial controls and policies, communicate deficiencies and gaps to management
• Maintain vendor master data, input, code & co-ordinate 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 & escalate issues as appropriate to your manager
• Learn WMG operational & accounting systems, develop expertise in participations accounting & operations
• Represent and contribute to the culture of the Participations group

Skills

• BA/BS degree required, preferably in accounting or finance related fields
• 0-2 years of experience working in a related capacity
• Advanced proficiency with MS Excel, working with large data sets and complex calculations
• Possess strong problem solving and analytical skills with attention to detail
• Effective interpersonal skills, able to work cross-functionally and communicate with internal & external stakeholders
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, execute tasks with accuracy and deliver under pressure
• Ability to understand complex information quickly, breakdown and communicate to others
• Entertainment, Media, or Music Industry experience working in Participations/Royalties or similar role
• Financial statement preparation background
• Technically savvy, exposure to SAP S4 Hana, MS Teams, SharePoint

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