Manager, Participations

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 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 and effectively direct 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 & approve financial reconciliations, cash forecasts and budgets, advance recoupment and Participations expense and balance sheet entries
• Oversee SOX compliance and internal controls, respond to audit requests
• Build and maintain strong working relationships across the company at all levels, as a primary contact for our internal and external partners
• Communicate status & escalate issues as appropriate to senior management
• Master WMG operational & accounting systems, further expertise in participations accounting & operations
• Contribute ideas and help lead process transformation, innovation, and improvement of team operations
• Demonstrate people management capabilities: coach and develop staff and contribute to the culture of the Participations group

About you:

• BA/BS degree required, preferably in accounting or finance related fields
• 5+ years of professional experience working in a related capacity
• Strong financial analysis and financial statement preparation background required
• Advanced proficiency with MS Excel, working with large data sets and complex calculations
• Experience supervising and developing staff
• Customer focused, with ability to manage & deliver service level expectations
• 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 at all levels
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and direct reports, execute tasks with accuracy and deliver under pressure
• Ability to understand complex information quickly, breakdown and communicate to others

 We’d love it if you also had:

• 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

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