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Senior Finance Manager, Emerging Markets

Employer
Warner Music Group
Location
London, United Kingdom
Salary
Competitive Salary
Closing date
Mar 26, 2023

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Job Role
Finance Manager
Sector
Finance
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Senior Finance Manager, Emerging Markets
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 know that each talent makes our collective bolder and brighter. We are guided by four core principles that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:
- Music is Everything : Music is our passion, and we can never get enough. Tastes, trends, and tech will change, but great artists and songwriters will always be our driving force.
- Global Growth, Local Expertise : Music is a global language. Through communication and collaboration, our success can come from anywhere and translate everywhere.
- Innovation and Insight : Pushing the boundaries requires the best information and the boldest imagination. We use both to create the future.
- Empowered by People : Like the artists we serve and the music they make, our differences make us stronger. This is a place where every talent can belong and build a career.
We remain committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. We know it fosters a culture where you can truly belong, contribute, and grow. We encourage applications from people of any age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, and any other characteristic or identity.
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.


Job Title:
Senior Finance Manager, Emerging Markets
A little bit about our team:
The Recorded Music (RM) Finance Department at WMG is responsible for handling the worldwide financial operations of the company's recorded music businesses. The Emerging Markets (EM) team are responsible for growing and dynamic markets as well as recently established WMG affiliates as well as potential target territories that do not currently have a local WMG operations. In these markets, the EM team are looking to establish a tangible presence, capitalising on the local trajectory through marketing of international roster and signing new artists, as well as looking for investment opportunities.
The EM Finance department's purpose is to provide support to affiliates without local finance capabilities, while assisting and guiding those with finance teams on the ground. This includes internal financial reporting (month end processes, forecasting, budgeting), financial analysis and modelling, generating royalty and financial statements to distribute to our artists, as well as ad hoc reporting to senior management.
Your role:
The Senior Finance Manager will oversee the operation of our affiliates in the Eastern Mediterranean, provide assistance to the MENA region and manage consolidated financial reporting across the Emerging Markets. The Senior Finance Manager will report into the Emerging Markets Finance Director and will work alongside an Assistant Finance Manager and Finance Analyst, both of whom are based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Here you'll get to:
Financial Reporting and Analysis
- Ensuring accurate financial reporting across the Emerging Markets, including monthly reporting submissions and annual budgets.
- Responsible and accountable for financial submissions of Eastern Mediterranean entites (including P&L, Cash, Budgets, Balance Sheets, along with completion of Supplementary Reporting Schedules) as well as involvement in submissions of other Emerging Markets entities.
- Further the standardisation of 'best practice' processes and procedures, as well as internal controls across the region.
- Help to drive the forthcoming introduction of a new ERP system across the region.
Financial Management and Management Accounting
- Financial Management of Eastern Mediterranean affiliates, playing an instrumental role in all business operations.
- Oversight of all financial processes, including AP, AR (operated via local finance team in territory), working capital management.
- Work alongside local management teams to ensure sound financial operation and viability of business units, including but not limited to management of ongoing budgets and modelling of new artist deals.
- Work closely with local finance, WMG and external, to submit local Statutory Tax accounts.
Artist Accounting
- Lead role alongside Financial Director managing regional artist accounting processes.
New Business
- Involvement in the scoping, modelling, and implementation of new business in applicable territories.
- Review of artist models created by local finance teams, ultimately presenting to management for approval
Ad Hoc Analysis
- Ad Hoc Financial reporting and analysis: typical exercises can include performance analysis related to artists, tracks, regions or markets.
About you:
- At least a 2:1 Bachelor's degree from a leading University. Numerical degree preferred.
- 2+ Years Post Qualifiation (ACA/ACCA/CIMA).
- Comparable financial experience.
- Highly motivated, independent and collaborative task finisher with a excellent work ethic.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to work through problems logically in a fast-paced environment, within time constraints and deadlines.
- Capacity to work on projects concurrently and prioritise effectively.
- Comfortable working and solutioning in ambiguious situations
- Good interpersonal and communication skills; ability to communicate with all levels of management and staff from around the world.
- Highly proficient in all Microsoft Office Applications, predominantly Excel.
- Passion for the Industry
About us:
As the home to Asylum, Atlantic, East West, Elektra, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and several other of the world's premier recording labels, Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. And our renowned publishing company, Warner Chappell Music, represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalogue of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Redefining what it means to be a music company in the 21st century, our consumer brands include trend-setters like UPROXX, Songkick, HipHopDX, and EMP. We're the home to WMX - the next generation services division that connects artists with fans and amplifies brands in creative, immersive, and engaging ways - and Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA) - the ground-breaking global distribution company for independent artists and labels.
Together, we are Warner Music Group: Music With Vision & Voice.
Love this job and want to apply?
Click the "Apply" link at the top of the page, or apply directly with your LinkedIn. Applying with LinkedIn will import all of the information you put in your profile, but will still allow you to upload a resume and cover letter.
Don't be discouraged if you don't hear from us right away. We're taking our time to review all resumes, and to find the best people for WMG.
Thanks for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here, and think you will, too.
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, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, marital status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), physical or mental disability, military service or veteran status, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

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