United States onlyJob 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: Director Process Transformation – FP&A
Location: Remote
A little bit about our team:
The Finance Transformation team is a group of professionals across the WMG organization brought together to re-imagine our processes and systems to establish more standardized and efficient ways of working that will drive WMG’s growth and business aspirations.
Your role:
The Director Process Transformation – FP&A will help ensure the successful delivery of the overall transformation portfolio and co-lead the design, development, and support of the future state budget and forecast process. The role will touch many key areas of the business and work cross-functionally with stakeholders across the global finance team.
Here you’ll get to:
- Work closely with global internal partners and third-party technology partners to design and implement a standardized planning methodology across WMG
- Design, build, and implement new budget and forecasting technology to deliver the following planning models (Revenue, Overheads, Workforce, Balance sheet, Cash Forecast, & A&R/Marketing) and standard planning reports to aid global business in the planning process
- Co-Lead on user acceptance testing sessions of planning models to world-wide finance community
- Provide support to the global business post go-live during the planning process, including trouble shooting issues as they arise
- Work with partners to ensure Product / Policy / Process / Procedure / System decisions take into account territory variances and business needs
- Partner with global technology to identify, build, & implement integration points between new systems and processes
- Partner with People Team to develop job aids, communications and training approaches to embed new ways of working and systems training for the planning area
- Responsible for the resolution and review of planning issues, risks and business impacts
- Proactively identifies internal and external planning practices that will enable improvement of the standard end-to-end process
- Provide regular process updates & action plans to senior executives across the finance community in partnership with Co-Lead
- Develop, manage and supervise project timelines with Co-Lead to ensure effective transition during and post go-live
About you:
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Accounting, Finance, or Economics
- 7 - 10+ years finance related experience
- Experience in a global/complex company preferred.
- Ability to deliver valuable analyses to senior management.
- Ability to work in fast paced, complex, global and dynamically changing environment
- Strong analytical-thinking and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- A passion for driving transformation and change
- Ability to think strategically and act tactically
- A questioning, curious mind with a desire to continuously improve status quo
- Strong sense of accountability, attention to detail, ownership of results and customer focus
- Ability to work remote with periodic travel
We’d love it if you also had:
- Music industry experience
- Experience with enterprise-level organizational change
About us:
As the home to 300 Elektra, Asylum, Atlantic, 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 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.
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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.
Salary Range
$170,000 to $200,000 AnnuallySalary ranges are included for job postings where required by law. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as work experience and business needs. The pay range is subject to change at any time dependent on a variety of internal and external factors.
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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