Warner Music Group

Senior Accountant, 12 Month FTC

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 turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:

• Curiosity: We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future.
• Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.
• Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.

WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.

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 Accountant, 12 Month FTC

Your role:

The Senior Accountant will be responsible for performing and managing advanced accounting and reporting activities for specific labels/affiliates.

Here you’ll get to:

• Manage the accounting and analysis for a number of affiliates ensuring all monthly, quarterly and annual reporting is complete, accurate and timely
• Perform advanced tasks and analyses required for monthly/quarterly financial reporting
• Perform tasks as part of the monthly close process, including preparing or posting journal entries, monitoring interfaces, and ensuring the timely analysis, preparation, and submission of close-related deliverables
• Perform direct reviews over staff tasks and journal preparation
• Review all balance sheet accounts to ensure the balance sheet is fully reconciled and all line items are fully supported with no risk to the company
• Perform accounting and financial analysis related to various revenues and expenses, including artist and copyright royalty expense, marketing, overheads etc., ensuring correct presentation in accordance with UK and US GAAP as necessary
• Collaborate with the FP&A teams to produce accurate cashflow submissions on a monthly basis to support the group in successfully managing working capital
• Work closely with the payroll team to support the monthly payroll process, ensuring accurate payments are made to staff, to pensions providers and local tax authorities and that these are correctly reflected in financial reporting
• Produce accurate headcount reporting that is fully reconciled to payroll data each month
• Ensure other external reporting requirements (e.g., payment practices reporting, ONS submissions) are completed accurately and on a timely basis
• Ensure compliance with SOX requirements, working closely with internal audit
• Assist with preparing and reviewing internal and external audit documentation
• Work closely with external audit and local affiliates to ensure statutory accounts and tax returns are completed within reporting deadlines
• Maintain strong relationships with finance personnel of affiliates/business units as well as other divisions within WMG
• Maintain a culture of continuous improvement
• Perform cross-functional or cross-departmental responsibilities based on need

About you:

• ACA/ACCA/CIMA (or equivalent) qualified
• Experience working in a SOX controlled environment preferred
• Strong work-ethic and a self-starter who proactively seeks out new solutions
• Ability to multi-task and prioritise projects working well under pressure
• Detail oriented

As the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, East West, 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 catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX. In addition, WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.

Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.

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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.

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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, religion or belief, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or any other characteristic protected by law.