Sr. Director, Accounting

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. 

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: Sr. Director, Accounting (RTR Process Lead)

A little bit about our team: 

The Global Business Service (GBS) team aims to be a trusted service partner offering efficient, innovative support operations that will allow WMG, its artists and songwriters to focus on making great music and creating lifelong fans. We focus on excellence in execution, collaboration, customer service, and continuous improvement as our key values to deliver this result.  

Within GBS, the Americas Shared Service Center is a dedicated group of individuals responsible for centralizing and running accounting, Royalties and Licensing, and other finance operational activities for all Warner Music Group Labels and Affiliates across North and South America. 

Your role: 

The Sr. Director, Accounting (RTR Process Lead) will oversee the process delivery team and own the RTR process (Fixed Assets, General Accounting and Financial Reporting, Project Costing, and Inventory Accounting, Artist Projects, Corporate Consolidations, and Account Reconciliations).  They will help 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.   

Here you’ll get to: 

• Lead RTR process team to support a highly motivated and effective workforce focused on continuous improvement and standard processes. 

• Develop, communicate, and implement policies and procedures for the RTR process area.  

• Track and measure performance against defined key performance indicators (critical metrics) and service level agreements (SLAs); review critical metrics on a regular basis and suggest changes where vital.  

• Report performance (statistics/metrics) to business divisions in accordance with KPIs / SLAs