Senior Financial Planning Analyst

Senior Financial Planning Analyst

Apply remote type On Site locations GBR - 27 Wrights Lane - London time type Full time posted on Posted 2 Days Ago time left to apply End Date: March 24, 2025 (24 days left to apply) job requisition id R-024828 Senior Financial Planning Analyst

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: Senior Financial Planning Analyst

A little bit about our team:

The WMUK Financial Planning team is integral to driving the budgeting, forecasting, performance management, and financial reporting processes across all UK businesses. We primarily collaborate with the record labels but also work closely with other key departments such as Commercial, Legal, HR, and Production. Our goal is to enhance business decision-making and deliver optimal financial outcomes, ensuring that each aspect of the business is aligned for success.

Your role:

This role is responsible for supporting the Financial Planning Director of Atlantic & Rhino in financial planning and ongoing business support. The role is a combination of budgeting, forecasting and month end responsibilities in addition to preparation of deal appraisals and analysis for distribution to senior management.

Here you'll get to:

• Take ownership of the A&R spend for the Atlantic roster, including reviewing recording budgets with the A&R co-ordination team, liaising with Business Affairs on advances and consultants, and being across Tour Support requests.

• Prepare monthly A&R financials, including review of POs and transactions, to ensure accuracy & completeness of A&R accrual and preparation of variance analysis for discussion in department month end meeting.

• Work closely with Business Affairs to prepare deal appraisals for potential new signings and renegotiation of current artist agreements.

• Update label forecast models for monthly MUR actuals and forecast.

• Review Atlantic sales units forecast.

• Prepare P&L's to support decision making on product pricing.

• Prepare and provide commentary as necessary on monthly balance sheet reconciliations and income statement accounts.

• Prepare monthly A&R cashflow submissions.

• Assist the Financial Planning Director with forecast and budget preparation including sales history information and populating the model with domestic & MUR sales forecasts.

• Prepare recoupable cost data to be submitted to royalties for inclusion on artist royalty statements.

• Assist the Financial Planning Director in checking the costs and revenue/earnings on artist royalty statements.

• Carry out other ad-hoc duties as required within the label finance teams.

About you:

• CIMA/ ACCA finalist with proven Financial Planning experience.

• Strong Microsoft Excel skills.

• Strong analytical skills and an ability to work through problems logically.

• Good interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively at all levels within the business.

• Diligent with excellent attention to detail.

• Initiative, drive and strength of character.

• Self starter - able to identify areas for improvement and take action to implement change.

• Commercial awareness and business acumen.

• Ability to work well under pressure and to meet tight deadlines.

• Flexible attitude towards working hours around key Finance deadlines.

We'd love it if you also had:

• Experience of working in a similar role in a media/music company desirable but not essential.

• Experience in a Finance/Financial Planning team.

As the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, 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 catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX. In addition, WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.

Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.

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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.

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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, religion or belief, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or any other characteristic protected by law.