Director, Corporate Finance Technology

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: Director, Corporate Finance

A little bit about our team:

The Corporate Finance Department at WMG is responsible for overseeing all of the financial operations of the Company in partnership with the labels and individual companies within WMG. The department provides financial reporting, accounting, planning, budgeting and financial compliance and auditing for the Company.

Your role:

The Director of Corporate Finance is a strategic partner to the global technology organization (leadership is NY based) and is responsible for overseeing the development of annual budgets and forecast updates in partnership with technology leadership team, developing project budgets and tracking spend and analyzing variance to forecast and budget. This role will also be responsible for the cost benefit analysis of tech project investments and assist with acquiring approval and ensure successful delivery of projects on budget. This finance lead will actively handle costs by challenging spend requests and identify other opportunities to reduce spend.

Here you’ll get to:

• Be a strategic finance partner to the global technology leadership team

• Lead all aspects of in the preparation and review of Global Technology’s annual operating budget and monthly forecast packages, providing analysis of variances v. budget, prior forecast and prior year;

• Be responsible for monthly reporting and analysis packings for Global Technology as well as assisting the Tech leadership team in controlling and planning their expenses in preparation of their annual budget and quarterly forecasts;

• Coordinate the collection, consolidation, and analysis of the Global tech deals and process to lead all technology Capex spend globally.

• Work closely with Global tech leaders to collect and compile data and statistics to understand their business operations and results;

• Work to continuously improve the financial processes, including around forecasting and budgeting, and partner with the SSC to improve invoice processing, monthly accruals, software capitalization, PO coding, to reduce manual tasks and improve financial accuracy

• Acquire data and analyze finances to aid in crucial business decisions and relay the information to senior leadership;

• Assist in the development and maintenance of financial models, such as long-range plans, as well as tools for monitoring business performance and forecasting;

• Track Corporate cash outflow including capex spend for various projects/initiatives; and

• Perform various ad-hoc reporting and analysis, as needed.

About you:

• Bachelor's degree in either Accounting, Business, Finance or Economics

• 6+ years’ work experience

• 5+ years’ Global Tech financial support required

• Strong Finance & Analytical skills

• Facilitative style, with prior