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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, sex or sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, disability, and any other protected 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: FP&A, Senior Manager - Emerging Markets
A little bit about our team:
The Recorded Music (RM) Finance Department at WMG is responsible for handling the worldwide financial operations of the company’s recorded music businesses. The Emerging Markets (EM) team are responsible for growing and dynamic markets, recently established WMG affiliates as well as potential target territories that do not currently have a local WMG operations. In these markets, the EM team are looking to establish a tangible presence, capitalising on the local trajectory through organic, marketing of international roster and signing new artists, as well as inorganic growth through investment opportunities.
Your role:
The FP&A Senior Manager will work closely with EM Finance and central FP&A team to assist with deal analysis (i.e. A&R, Licensing, JV/Profit Share, Administration, M&A), operating performance/delivery tracking, market/competitive analysis, strategic opportunities and ad-hoc projects as needed. The FP&A Senior Manager will:
Support EM M&A process through partnership with key stakeholders and support of the team, from initial target assessment, in-depth financial modelling and market and potential target analysis, due diligence, regular executive committee updates to close and integration; conduct pre- and post-transaction M&A deal analyses and valuations.
Work in partnership with FP&A and EM Finance (Regional and local) to develop financial models and strategic assessments for new and existing artists and writers, investments in new businesses and technologies, significant transactions and postmortem analyses
Manage approval process for executive approval-level deals, including preparation and submission of transaction summaries, board presentations, deal commentaries, valuations, etc.
Liaise with Regional and local finance teams to ensure financial accuracy and consistency with budgets and forecasts
Interact with cross-functional groups to ensure progress through deal approval process
Provide regular updates to senior management on status of ongoing deal analysis
Here you’ll get to:
You will play a key role in the Emerging Markets growth strategy
You will develop a thorough understanding of the music business and what drives its performance.
You will play a key role in evaluating prospective targets as well as the performance of completed transactions.
You will understand how each different department within WMG contributes to its operations, building a comprehensive understanding of the business and what drives success and failures.
You will work alongside EM finance and the Corporate finance teams, experiencing how the two departments must interact to ensure sustainable success.
About you:
5-8 years of finance-related experience in corporate finance, consulting, business development, transaction services or another analytic role
Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office including Excel and PowerPoint
Ability to communicate with senior level management team
Self-starter with a strong desire to learn and develop
Ability to work independently as well as to work as part of a team
Clear and organised written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
You can manage multiple deadlines and urgent tasks
You are willing to learn a little bit of everything
You are excellent at listening, interpreting, and communicating
You are curious and ask questions
We’d love it if you also had:
Knowledge of and/or experience in music/media industry
STEM Degree at University level of equivalent.
As the home to Asylum, Atlantic, East West, Elektra, 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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