Senior Manager, Finance Systems

Create Music Group is a global music company headquartered in Los Angeles, with a growing portfolio of labels, catalogs, and joint ventures across North America, Europe, and Asia. We invest in and partner with creative teams worldwide to preserve, scale, and modernize iconic and emerging music catalogs.

As we continue our global expansion and acquisition strategy, we are seeking an experienced and highly technical Head of Financial Systems to lead the evolution of our financial technology ecosystem. This role will be instrumental in building a scalable, best-in-class systems architecture that standardizes our global financial processes, improves data visibility, and seamlessly integrates newly acquired entities into our core operations.

The Senior Manager, Finance Systems will play a pivotal role in bridging the gap between Finance, Accounting, Data Engineering, and Operations. By leading the integration of our NetSuite ERP with connected platforms across payroll, royalties, and FP&A, as well as spearheading the implementation of new solutions (i.e. procurement), you will ensure our financial infrastructure is robust, automated, and fully equipped to support Create Music Group’s next phase of exponential growth.

Job Summary

The Senior Manager, Finance Systems will own and lead Create Music Group’s global financial systems ecosystem, with primary responsibility for NetSuite ERP and all connected platforms across accounting, FP&A, payroll, royalties, treasury, and data infrastructure.

This role sits at the intersection of Finance, Accounting, Data/Engineering, and Operations, and is critical to ensuring that financial systems are scalable, integrated, and aligned with the company’s rapid growth and acquisition strategy. You will be responsible for designing and maintaining a best-in-class systems architecture that supports accurate financial reporting, efficient operations, and robust internal controls.

This is a highly operational and technical finance role. You will not only oversee system performance, but also lead integration of acquired entities, drive automation, and ensure that global financial processes (including non-U.S. operations) are standardized where appropriate while remaining compliant with local requirements.

Responsibilities

Financial Systems Ownership & Strategy

• Own the end-to-end financial systems architecture, with NetSuite as the core ERP, and responsibility for all upstream and downstream integrations
• Drive system strategy, roadmap, and prioritization in alignment with Accounting, FP&A, Treasury, and executive leadership
• Lead the evaluation, selection, and end-to-end implementation of a modern procurement and spend approval platform (e.g., Zip) to streamline purchasing, vendor onboarding, and AP workflows
• Own and enhance the financial system architecture between our CRM (Salesforce), royalties accounting systems and NetSuite ERP, ensuring seamless data flow, accurate revenue recognition, and an optimized contract to cash lifecycle
• Ensure systems are scalable, reliable, and capable of supporting a high volume of transactions, complex royalty flows, and multi-entity operations
• Act as the primary point of accountability for financial systems performance, data integrity, and uptime

Systems Integration and Architecture

• Lead integration of all connected financial systems, including payroll (Rippling), AP/Payments (Tipalti), close management (FloQast), FP&A (Planful), and royalty platforms (Label Engine and CreateOS, Curve, Fuga, etc.)
• Partner with Data & Engineering to ensure seamless data flow across systems, including ingestion, transformation, and reporting layers
• Identify and resolve system gaps, redundancies, and inefficiencies across the financial tech stack
• Establish and maintain a clean, well-documented systems architecture and data governance framework

M&A Integration and Global Expansion

• Lead financial systems diligence for acquisitions, including assessment of target company systems, data quality, and integration complexity
• Develop and execute post-acquisition integration plans to migrate acquired entities onto NetSuite and the broader CMG systems ecosystem
• Ensure timely and accurate onboarding of new entities, including chart of accounts mapping, data migration, and process alignment
• Partner with Accounting and local operators to understand and reconcile differences in a