About Sony Music Entertainment
At Sony Music Entertainment, we fuel the creative journey. We’ve played a pioneering role in music history, from the first-ever music label to the invention of the flat disc record. We’ve nurtured some of music’s most iconic artists and produced some of the most influential recordings of all time.
Today, we work in more than 70 countries, supporting a diverse roster of international superstars, developing and independent artists, and visionary creators. From our position at the intersection of music, entertainment, and technology, we bring imagination and expertise to the newest products and platforms, embrace new business models, employ breakthrough tools, and provide powerful insights that help our artists push creative boundaries and reach new audiences. In everything we do, we’re committed to artistic integrity, transparency, and entrepreneurship.
Sony Music Entertainment is a member of the Sony family of global companies.
What you'll do:Accounting & Financial Reporting
- Prepare journal entries, reconcile accounts, and support labels with revenue recognition and film cost amortization processes.
- Coordinate monthly close activities in collaboration with shared services and label finance teams.
- Own the preparation and refinement of the monthly reporting package for both Film&TV and Soundtracks, providing in-depth analysis of budget-to-actual variances and tracking critical KPIs to support business performance monitoring.
Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
- Drive core FP&A activities, including annual budgeting, monthly performance reporting, and quarterly reforecasting cycles.
- Assist in preparing presentations and reports for executive leadership meetings.
- Partner cross-functionally with label finance teams to ensure forecasting accuracy and data integrity between planned and actual results
Data Analytics
- Collaborate with the sales organization to develop and maintain advanced dashboards analyzing digital sales performance across key platforms.
- Provide actional insights to senior leadership to drive strategic decisions around content investment and release strategies.
- Support management team and department heads with ad hoc analysis and reporting.
Revenue Processing and Accounts Receivable
- Partner with Legal and Sales teams to assess contractual terms and ensure billing readiness license agreements, aligning invoicing timelines with deal execution and compliance requirements.
- Analyze and reconcile revenue data from incoming statements provided by sales agents and sub-distributor partners, ensuring accurate and timely revenue recognition
- Collaborate with the Order-to-Cash (OTC) team to manage the accounts receivable ledger, proactively identifying and resolving outstanding payment issues to optimize cash flow.
Participations & Residuals
- Work with Royalty and Joint Venture Accounting teams to prepare participations and residuals reporting.
- Assist in maintaining accurate participations and residuals liabilities.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting; Big 4 or CPA preferred.
- 3-5 years of progressive finance and accounting experience, ideally with experience in the entertainment or media industry.
- Requires strong Excel skills, experience with SAP/BW a plus.
- Strong understanding of financial modeling, budgeting, and forecasting.
- Experience working in a fast-paced or entrepreneurial environment preferred.
- Detail-oriented with excellent analytical and organizational skills.
- Effective communicator and collaborator across departments and levels.
- Proactive, adaptable, and comfortable managing multiple priorities.
- You join an inclusive, collaborative and global community where you have the opportunity to channel your passion every day
- A modern office environment designed to foster productivity, creativity, and teamwork empowering you to bring your best
- An attractive and comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life & disability coverage, and 401K + employer matching
- Voluntary benefits like company-paid identity theft protection and resources for pets, mental health and meditation resources, industry-leading fertility coverage, fully paid leave for childbirth or bonding, fully paid leave for caregivers, programs for loved ones with developmental disabilities and neurodiversity, subsidized back-up child and elder care, and reimbursement for adoption, surrogacy, tuition, and student loans
- Investment in your professional growth and development enabling you to thrive in our vibrant community.
- The space to accelerate progress, positively disrupt, and create what happens next
- Time off for a winter recess
Sony Music is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of age, disability, national origin, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, veteran or military status, marital and civil partnership/union status, alienage or citizenship status, creed, genetic information or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
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