Senior Accountant (Consultant)

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 (Consultant) (5 Months Contract)

Your role:

Drive Financial Excellence by providing critical support to Finance Operations, Financial Reporting and the ongoing SAP Migration project and Tax reviews. This role ensures accuracy, compliance, and efficiency across all financial functions.

Here you’ll get to:

• Month-End Close Reconciliation: You will provide support on critical month-end activities, including Fixed Asset management, Balance Sheet reviews, P&L analysis, ensuring the timely and accurate closure of financial records.
• Cash Reporting: You will collaborate with the Senior Finance Manager in the preparation of the monthly actuals, forecast, and other high-priority ad-hoc financial reporting submissions.
• Artist and Royalty Management: You will provide oversight on royalty operations, including artist communication and royalty payment status. Resolve systemic gaps such as unmapped royalty codes and missing contracts, while driving the Artist Portal implementation to streamline the royalty process and enhance the artist user experience.
• Billing and Receivables: You will perform review of Client Invoices within the AMS system for Brand, Sync and Touring agreements, and proactively monitors long outstanding accounts to accelerate cash collections.
• Invoices and Payables: You will review Pos, Recharges and SSC-prepared payments, monitor aging reports to minimize long-outstanding payables and maintain vendor health.
• Tax Review and Compliance Management: You will prepare Business Tax Forms (0619E, 0619F, 1600- WVAT, 2550Q VAT) ensuring accuracy and compliance with monthly and quarterly regulatory requirements. Provide a meticulous support in record-keeping and adherence to regulations to achieve zero audit findings and penalties. Collaborate with the Senior Finance Manager on Transfer Pricing reviews and other tax clean-up initiatives, driving comprehensive tax strategy and risk mitigation.
• SAP Migration and Implementation: You will performs crucial support during the Go Live implementation of the FIT Project, specifically with the Royalty function, ensuring a smooth transition.

About you:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance & accounting or equivalent, (CPA is optional)
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in multinational corporation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Experience with Finance ERP systems (Hyperion, SAP).

We’d love it if you also had:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach.
• Highly motivated, self-directed, and eager to learn.
• Demonstrated intellectual curiosity, accountability and ownership.
• Ability to thrive under tight deadlines and manage multiple projects effectively.

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.